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.