DFI WEEK 4 

Dealing With Data 

Hapara - primary teachers need to look through the top line and check more Check on comments Don't click to open posts that may be spam as it will explode the issue indicating to the spam bot a hit. Make a note and deal with it later. 

 

The Share Concept 

Right from the beginning of time we have been sharing. Sharing can occur in so many ways with so many things … sharing food - sharing things sharing joy, fun conversation and time, love and laughter. Sharing is important and needs to be two way to be sustainable for people to keep it going. So many ways to share online have happened through time. People have use these many vehicles to share and communicate. In DFI we use blogger.  It is not the smartest or the most popular tool / vehicle but it has the functions that allow students to have a good platform to teach digital citizenship and cyber safety.

 Google Forms

Used to get a response from participants, create a quiz, find out information or opinions, or to gather data. 

It is important to make sure that whanau or those out of your school have access to view and participate. You need need to allow access in the sharing settings or they will be unable to access and participate . There are many features to google forms. You can limit one response from email to ensure you get an accurate representation of your participants views or ideas. (ie not one person submitting their views multiple times. 

You can shuffle question order so each participant gets questions in a random individual order. This means if the form is a test or intended to gather each individuals thinking then neigbours can't copy as questions to each participant can be random. If you wish your class to focus only on this without exploring other tabs ect then you can lock students into the participant completing the form without being able to surf or begin something else online or on the device.- This is however only if the users are using a chrome book or device managed within your domain. 

Can send to open in email or if larger can open in another tab. 

My Maps 

Add marker points Name each marker point and can add image also Set default screen so you don't have to zoom in. Once you have marker points you can find distances from point you point This tool can be used for maths.. My maps I figured I could use in my personal life or to demonstrate distances or routes 

Google Sheets EXAM support slide check this as it is all that will be in the exam on google sheets. I have dabbled in google sheets and can see that it could be really useful. As I am getting use to how to use the many possibilities and functions that sheets has I am starting to feel a wee bit excited. Once we practiced a bit and I was able to see my information transforming into rather cool graphs quite quickly I felt less over whelmed and I began to imagine how this could look in my role as a teacher. 

Sharing information and data to others. 

 With my class - I could even see this as a tool that we could use to make a quick visual graph of class statistical data gathered input then presented in graph form to analyse and make statements about together. I am motivated to play some more to become quick at this. I can definitely see multiple uses for this in my role. I do find myself not quite grasping all the shortcuts so I do things the long winded way because I just know that it works even if it takes a bit longer. My goal is to take that little bit of time to learn skills that will save more time in the long run.  I am also intrigued but the huge number of tools and want to explore these further.