Day 4: Dealing with Data

The Manaiakalani Way: Dorothy talked about The Third Plank on the floorboards: ‘Share’ or Tohatoha and it has me thinking how I incorporate this currently and how I can show this in my class.

Dorothy talked about sharing being nothing new but it is an instinct in human nature regardless of faith or beliefs. Almost everyone loves to share but I respect there are students that would rather not and remain anonymous.

I did find the history behind the choice to choose Blogger when exploring online spaces really interesting. I like how it resembled the online spaces that the students were using at the time (some years ago, but still relevant!).

I enjoyed the phrase 'being cybersmart, just like learning to drive, you’ve got to go beyond theory at some stage.' It makes me think about how I can best maximise the use of technology in the new curriculum. Being fairly new to my kura, there has been so much to learn over the past 3 weeks. At our school 'Learn' looks like sharing mahi online and reminding the students to take ownership, managing themselves and get creative! I'm really looking forward to seeing what my Cybersmart class can do for me tomorrow - I have a blogging session and cyber challenge prepared for them.

A little summary about today: Google Forms (Tūhura) 

A Great tool! So helpful for evaluations and questionnaires. I have made one for my social studies class.

Google MyMaps  (Very handy to show the trail of where certain things are made)

Could definitely use this for Social studies in the Globalisation assessment.

Google Spreadsheets

I found this very confusing but very challenging- I even made a couple of charts to show averages and data!

I had to give the Spreadsheet task another go to try to show the average for each year:

Here is my Map that I made using MyMap. It shows the Teachers Dream Destinations in the course, plus my favourite places in the Bay of Islands to visit.