My 2nd day of DFI

Day two of Digital Fluency Intensive
More on Google My Drive with the experts. We are going through all this treasure trove at a rapid rate of speed. Finding the time to come back and remembering to come back has to be done somehow.

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
I am beginning to understand the term ‘rewindable learning’ through digital learning we are able to create a digital footprint which shows our learning pathway.
During the day it became more clear to me the use of the students blog posts. Students who record their learning can share it with others to learn. Posts demonstrate learning progress for the years a student is at school and perhaps beyond.



What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Google Forms:Loving it, I had tried unsuccessfully in the past to create one of these on my own. It is so much better when you are given proper instruction.
I created a sheet with 5 questions, to be completed with multichoice, checkbox , short answers, paragraph. I inserted a youtube clip and  images. I even added a pathway, which is when providing a response to a question the form takes you off on to a different slide before returning to the original pathway. I thought I had done a pretty good form but when one of my peers went to complete the form she found many holes in it for me to fix up. Learning from mistakes helps me grow. Forms can lead to mymaps and sheets!
I would very much like to make a slide for students in Term 2 on choose your own story


Google Sheets. There was many useful aspects of sheets shared with me today. A bit overwhelming, some useful to me immediately, some I can see of use with my students and some that is of course useful but will filter out of my brain for lack of use.

I learnt under View, freeze, once selected which row or column you want to stay put so you can scroll and still see the row or column you froze.
Cropping all those rows and columns you no longer want on the sheet, remove cells you don’t need on the sheet. Sort into alphabetical order your students names. Sum:     to highlight the data and click on sum, you can always change the selection you can do this for average etc. You can repeat this by dragging down the formula. You can sort to select z-a . you can add your own code to select specific students and cells by clicking in a new cell and highlighting the cells ,eg: =sum(g2+b1+g4)
Colour tabs/hide sheet
How to number a sheet by typing in the beginning of the number/date sequence. Highlight and drag
Insert a comment into a graph because you want someone to enter data perhaps. Check your sharing settings, click on the + symbol, their email
Conditional highlighting: add colour rules for assessment eg: if the data is less than 4 for PAT add a colour. This is all so yummy!

 mymaps:

This is somehow separate from google maps where you create a map specifically for your own travel itinerary. Mymaps can be linked to google forms and sheets.


What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 



Forms:   Endless uses.
 I have created a form to collect student voice
Fiona has helped me on my site with a link for students to share their posts each time so I can keep a track on how frequently students are either posting or giving feedback to peers posts.


   Sheets: Statistics will be fun with sheets.
If we are smart enough we could combine this with surveys in forms perhaps?


 mymaps.google.com this is not google maps.
Mapping skills for measurement by road or straight line/ adding decimals/shapes. Useful to share were everyone comes from. I can see the use of this for each time we go on an outside the school we map it, measure each distance, insert a photo of the event, and blog.
We have started by mapping our school trips, writing a recount with learning goals for writing, inserting a photo if we have one and linking it to the learning experience.

Blog posts: rewindable learning.
learning goals, demonstrate learning, 3- 5 blog posts per week.
Word cloud for statistic analysis, word count comparisons between blogs, shared writing document - WALT: Which blog demonstrates your learning best? Quality, work completion as is a job expectation. Sharing on the blog is the completion of the learning. Understand a post is what the students put on their blog. Labels are like a filing cabinet. Alter the dates so blogs appear in the correct order.