DFI 4 Dealing with Data

First Friday session for DFI during lockdown has been great. I have been surprised at how smoothly everything went and can see how this is so useful for our teachers to be using as they continue to teach online during this time.
I have managed to create a google form which I will put out to whanau to get an idea of how online learning is going for them. I found this session very easy to understand. I did feel I got a bit lost in some of the other presentations around My Maps and Google Sheets however breaking off into the smaller groups for more detailed instruction around these clarified things. Great Day!
Below are some of the things I learnt today and will be able to use in the future.

Using a grid for a hangout. So you can see everyone in the hangout at once.

Share/ Tohatoha

As connected learners we share. Those with connectability are able to continue with their learning, so important with what is happening at the moment.
Not something new, not digital, itis a part of human nature. Lockdown - can't share with others, having to stay inside 'bubble'
Opportunity to share in a different way 2005 you tube, facebook, twitter.
Internet so important at this present time, still able to share. Instant sharing.
Change of sharing since time began, only change in the digital age is going beyond the local community to go global. Sharing with a purpose - audience.
Authentic Audience - people who choose to listen to you.
Value the realtime - not the same without a real audience. Face to face
Manaiakalani chose blogger as the main space for children to share. Found that nothing was as good as blogger for meeting a huge range of needs.
Legally BOT owns childrens blogs
Learn how a blog functions by using it.
Hard to teach children to be cyber smart if they are nt actually online.
Share is a sign that you have finished your learning.
Teachers have the opportunity to give imediate feedback to children.
Learning experience can start from share, may be someone asking a question, starts the learning.
John Hattie - importance of feedback and feed forwards. Feedback has high impact on student learning. Need to comment on student blogs. Especially over the next 4 weeks when we are only teaching online. Encourage children to keep posting and keep learning.

Google Forms
Use to collect data.
How to get to google forms. Forms.google.com or from google drive.
Once accessed home screen there are different templates that can be used. Start with blank form, name with appropriate title. When adding a question state what type of question e.g. multi choice etc.
There is some automation, can add new questions in side bar. Can select required option.
Settings access at top right hand of form.
How to share form - email directly to group or specific people, can create sharable link, can embed onto a site.
Can view respose data. responses overview of all answers. Can link data to a spreadsheet, create spreadsheet icon. Can have multiple forms funnelling into one spreadsheet.

My Maps

Toolbar at top for different options.Marker tool can add pins. Line can connect pins to calculate distances, ruler tool to measure. had a bit of trouble understanding this. Looks like would be a great tool to use with students to look at distances between house and school and areas etc for maths. Will look into this more. Had a go at this, was able to import information onto a world map. Looked at tools for measuring distance on a specific area.

Google sheets

Make all columns the same size. Will need to follow up on this and try using some of our school data to analyse more in depth.


Sheets on speed.

Analysing data from a students blog.

Create. 
Choose a students blog to analyse. record button on screen, useful for distance teaching.Shows the conversations you have been having with students regarding their learning, also helpful for rewindable learning. I was able to create a graph from the data of a student showing how many blog posts the student had shared in each month for 2019.

Share - Blogging
Adding labels
Create a label for every blog post. Can configure alphabetically. Back end of blog screen. My labels were already arranged alphabetically.

DFI session 3

Google hangouts. Depending on how things go with coronavirus this may be something we need to use, so we are feeling a bit better prepared.

Google Hangout with Anne Sinclair

Create-
All the talking together is create.
Its about the hook. How do we hook kids in to learning.
How can we change things for students.
Allow students to be able to create what they need to do to improve metacognition.
Use play to learn things. Class on air - using concrete material to help students learn.
Exploring, let students explore, by grappling they are learning.
Forming original idea, discovery, space for students to discover. Everything we do we can allow time for creation.
Robin Sutton, principal Hornby school blogs.Creating a centre of excellence. Creativity empowers learners.
Students at the centre of the learning. Elwyn Richardson. The Heart of the Matter
Create using your whole senses. music, drama, art etc
Learning comes form the doing.
Intentional use of technologies to enable creativity to play a significant part in learning and teaching .
Children to have choice and collaborate.
Make time for creating in everything we do. Maths/Science still creating.
6 c's of education in 21st century.
Creativity combines sight sound and motion with innovation and imagination as well as accuracy and attention to last detail.
Creativity empowers learners.
Local curriculum used to create.

Google Hangout Kent Sommerville point England School.

Live streaming
Can use drones.
Set up for sports events.
Amping up the share.
Using a full HD camera. Need HDMI out VidiU Go allows for live feeds. Can go to facebook and other platforms. Can use you tube.
Can set up wireless networks outside. Could be a possibility for our outdoor learning space.
Live streaming for sports events which whanau are not able to be at.
Can live stream using laptop webcam.
Can set as private and set to own purposes.
Could film yourself teaching, have completely private and use for own PD
Using a drone use different platform other than you tube. DJi spark good type of drone
Drone also record audio so be careful of what you might be saying.
If its worth teaching its worth sharing. If you value the sharing can you then take it to another level, boost the value of the students sharing.

You Tube
How to make a you tube channel to create a playlist. Can now use this to share video clips with students. Enter video and add to playlist.

Google Draw

Lots of different things you can do. refer back to slides from agenda
In drive go to new - and more google drawing right click for background
When inserting a picture put 'png' after search so you don't get the background
Polyline - insert, line, polyline

Google Slides

When adding new slides make sure most recent is at the front.
Animation - Insert a background, insert an image, move the image for each new slide to create animation. Can insert a text box.
Can link slides for'pick a path' text box will send children to the correct slide.
Save video publish to the web and embed, change size - small and change time, click publish. Copy code Then HTML on blog and copy and paste link into blog.



Reflection

Today I learnt how to add images to slides and create animations. I feel confident to be able to share this with learners and support them to create their own animation or slide show. I also revised google hangouts and was able to join a hangout and present a screen more easily than previously. I also learnt how to embed a slide show onto my blog. This is something that I will need to keep practising to make sure that i Can continue to use this.

Digital Fluency Intensive Session 1

Original outcomes of Manaiakalani

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

    I learnt lots of tips for making things easier. Setting up a staff group for communication. Lots of google doc ideas, how to use different tools.


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

I learnt things to use with administration tasks in the school, sharing information, staff meetings etc. Teaching one day a week in a class with 1-1 devices it has increased my confidence with the use of the google platform. Hopefully I will feel more able to answer questions the students may have and also increase my ability to teach them something new.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Should make it easier/faster to complete things, organise and manage folders and documents.