Digital Fluency Intensive - Session 4 - Forms and Sheets

We were back at it for our fourth session this week.

It was really great to hear more about the purpose of blogging and the impact of quality sharing on a student learning.  It really cemented the reasons we teach blogging in the classroom and the importance of encouraging students to make meaningful connections with the wider world by commenting on others blogs in order for them to build/engage an audience.
We had a look at google forms. I found this very useful and timely as I had just volunteered to create the form for our hubs time pre-test. The most useful part for was learning more about managing the responses. I have linked the responses to a google sheet. When creating the quiz I add the question "whose maths class are you in?" and on the sheet I have added a filter so that the teachers in the hub should be able to easily filter the responses from the students in their maths class.

We also had a deep dive into Mymaps. It was really fun to have a play with. I am going to explore more how I can create opportunities to use this with students, but I think I need more sandpit time first.

The blue markers show all the dream holiday spots of the members of the DFI.
The orange line shows the distance from Christchurch, NZ to Barcelona, Spain (my dream holiday spot).

When it comes to google apps, sheets is probably one of the areas I am least confident in. After today a feel pretty confident in navigating around some of the tools such as, fixing columns and rows in place, using the different functions efficiently and creating charts with the data I have in the sheet. We Also learnt how to insert a chart we created in sheets into a drawing. Below you can see my break down of a students blog use between 2018 and now.

Well, I am am definitely looking forward to getting the responses back to my google form and having a play with the data in google sheets. It will be great to put what I have learnt into practice.

Until next time team,

Sarah