DFI Week 4 Data

 Connecting with Manaiakalani: Dorothy

The Manaiakalani Pedagogy: Learn Create Share

Today we focused on SHARE -

Hapara Hot Tip #3 Dashboard and Blogger

Today Dorothy talked about Sharing.  Sharing started many years ago - when we think about it, sharing has been part of our lives as humans since time began. Youtube was created in 2005,  The new digital world sharing experience had started. This is an important part of our life today as it brings us all together.  (just like in this DFI course) We also see this in many ways with our students today - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, youtube. and of course the newest rave, Tik Tok!  Today, we can share digitally to our family and friends who live away from us, this gives us connections that in the past was not possible.  I know this through my own experience of seeing my grandson each day on Messenger.  However, since I have learned more about Meet, I set up family meets where we get together and share our day's experiences.

DATA

Today was another day full of firsts for me.  Each week the DFI seems so full-on and fast-paced, but after I have some of my own playtime and sharing time with Miriam, I always come away each week with some new skills. The hardest part for me is getting time to keep up the practice.  I am learning that I have to be kind to myself and remember I know more now in week four than I did when I started my journey.

Chalk 'n Talk:  Google Forms

Vicki presented forms to us today, and how to go about creating one.  You can choose a template or start with a blank one (which is recommended.) We also filled out a form called 'Meet the team' and then added the link beside our name.

Steps to create a form:

• Drive - new - forms
• Add questions- select question type (short, paragraph,multiple)
• use the add new question function (circle with +)
• 3 ways to send the form -email, link, embed
• Viewing response data -can see a summary -can export & link data to a spreadsheet 

Google Forms

Explore: Creating our own form

Today I created my own form - once again this is all new learning for me.  I have answered many of these forms myself for Grey High School, but to be the creator of one was a whole new experience.  I had fun creating this and sharing this form with my family and friends to get their responses as well. 

Google My Maps:

Another new tool for me today was to learn how to use Google My Maps.  I haven't used digital maps much before except to look at them while planning a holiday.  The struggle was real with this one.. I had very little control over my map - one minute it was too large, then the next it was too small.  To be honest I still have not had a proper play ( this is a challenge I have set myself to do!!)  We were shown how to insert pins, learn how far it is from one place to another.

The map below is where different members of the DFI team would like to go for a holiday.  Our 'meet the team' form was used to create the map below.

Deep Dive with Vicki

Sheets

Google sheets:  Arrrggggg!!!!  Vicki made it all sound so easy, while I was watching the presentation I thought  "yip I got this" everything is there, I just need to fill in the gaps (so full of confidence) off I went into my bubble of beginners.  Thanks to Venessa our facilitator who at times probably felt like she was on repeat mode..it was fantastic to learn and share with others in my bubble as we were all at the same level of learning. We asked lots of questions and this made the learning fun and enjoyable.

We learned how to:

• Freeze rows and columns to lock headings by using the freeze pan

• how to get averages by using the sigma button

• how to use the drag button in the corner of a cell

•  how to use the different options at top of spreadsheet

• How to make the columns smaller by hi-lighting it and then shrinking it.

Another activity today, was to select a student's blog and then break it down on to a spreadsheet.  This was very challenging for me - my daughter's words were ringing in my ears.."A lesson felt is a lesson learned!!"  Vicki guided me through the process step by step. I loved seeing the whole process of selecting months/ years of posts from a student's blog, breaking the data down on a sheet, and then sending the data to a graph.  This activity gave me a clear vision of the ability to create, learn, and share. Sheets is another part of google suite I will have to spend ALOT more time playing with.

Reminder: of how to put a graph on to a new sheet 

• Open explore (bottom of page)
• Choose my graph of choice
• Click the + button on the bottom of the sheet
• Click on the 3 dots (in my graph)
• Select option - move to own sheet

This is my graph below

Blogging

The biggest issue I have is remembering how to get something from one place and putting into another- for example sending my sheet  to my blog ( need to do regularly, so I remember),

Reminder: Doc to Blog

• file
• publish to web
• embed
• select size
• hi-light then c/c
• go to blog
• HTML - c/v then back to compose -should see a grey box!

Reminder:  Blogging <ahref="insert URL here>insert display txt here </a>( this is how to insert a link into a comment on blog)

Google Forms

Creating a Form

My Maps

Sheets - how to slides

Rewindable for forms

Rewindable for sheets 

Google Cheat Sheet for Teachers