3 Mar DFI Blog

 DFI Day 4

Lessons learned from day 4

(1) Learn, Create, SHARE

Dorothy shared about the importance of thinking about the 'who' we are sharing our digital information with. The platform Blogger is a safe environment for teachers and learners. Personalisable and multi-purposeful. Blogger gives a great opportunity for feedback and feedforward (whether student or teacher). Through feedback learning continues even though the moment has passed. 

Secondly, we were encouraged to share our resources with the wider world (for our growth and to support others). 

(2) Google Forms

I felt at home with this presentation as Google Forms are something that I (and our school) use a lot - for example, collecting student's option choices for each year (allowing flexibility for students who change their mind ...), as a 'mood sheet' to check in with a student's understanding of learning and/or wellbeing, as a way of collecting student learning/assessment, of collating survey results from schools or the community ... 

(3) Google Maps 

This will be good for showing points of historical interest around our Town. I also liked the idea of showing our pepeha via google maps also. 

(4) Google Sheets

This is another function that I am very familiar with. I was trained with Excel and Google Sheets has most of the functionality of Excel and its greatest strength is shareability/collaboration. 

Yet I still learned some new features:

• =sparkline( )
• alternating colours for rows. 
• I liked the functionality of the 'explore' tab. 
• for dropdown options - go to Data, Data Validation. This is useful when setting up reporting sheets. 

Play Time

(5) Analysing student blog data 

I can see the value of student's analysing their own data. Looking at Dyzon's posts from 2018 to the end of 2020, I notice that His blogs regularly increase in May (pink circles above peaks). In wonder whether there is a particular focus at Dyzon's school, Tamaki Primary, at this time of the year. 

I like the positive, thoughtful and helpful mantra of how to write comments on other's blogs.