Friday 29 March 2019

Day 4: Digital Fluency Intensive

Today we focused on the Share aspect of Manaiakalani which was about sharing content via digital media and in a safe environment.  The importance of not sharing personal details online was mentioned and it was a great reminder to use blogs and sites with the utmost professionalism.

Google Forms was introduced which seems to be super helpful for making questionnaires, surveys, and gathering feedback when needed.  If I was teaching an older year level, this would be a creative way to enlist their feedback on lessons or even gauge their understanding of content by using exit tickets, etc.  It lets you view your responses and even analyses your data for you!  We had a chance to create a Google Form of our own as well.

The Google Sheets session also showed us many things.  I am usually terrified of anything spreadsheet related (with an admin background and having had to use Excel randomly for accountants).  However, I do find that Google Sheets is much easier to navigate.  I am looking forward to being able to do more in spreadsheet shared planning and assessment as I feel more confident about being able to do these tasks:

  • How to share spreadsheets outside of email
  • How to change rows/columns
  • How to sort in descending and ascending order
  • Using and setting conditional format rules
  • Changing text direction and using borders
  • Arranging class lists (oldest to youngest)
  • Inserting tick boxes for teachers to use for marking
  • Creating graphs and choosing charts

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