I just started a new teaching position at a large school in Indonesia. And for the first time, I am teaching DP Design Technology! As with any new position, the amount of information that a teacher has to digest is crazy – it is like drinking through a fire hose. There is new content to learn, skills to practice and policies to read. It is always overwhelming at the beginning of a new gig – and this school is no different. Just today, the pressure of the metaphorical fire hose has been reduced to that of a slowly leaking garden faucet and finally, I feel I can breathe and relax.
Ed Tech I’m Trying
Some of my new colleagues recommend that I try out classroomscreen.com with my students. It has a bunch of incredibly useful widgets such as timers, noise meters, polls (these are awesome), randomizers and tons more! I tried it out for about a week, and although I loved how easy it was to use and how much information could be placed onto one screen without being too much for my students. However, I could not get used to having one screen for the lesson. You see, in classroomscreen, you can only have one screen for a class, instead of a sequence of screens for a class such as in Slides or Canva. I like to add new ideas in one document which I can move around quickly. I found that in classroomscreen I had to create a new screen each time. I recommend it though, it just doesn’t suit my current workflow.
Content that I’m Creating
The workload at my new place is starting to become manageable, which has given me the time to create a one-pager for my 9th Graders in MYP Design. The unit is adapted from the amazing work by Lenny Dutton. I made the one-pager below in Affinity Publisher, using coolors.co for my colour palette as my colour blindness and ability to pick out matching colours is shocking.
