Dealing with Data

AGENDA

Well what a day! There were times today where I felt really overwhelmed today but in all honesty I feel like that when we are in our room at Awapuni School with all the other DFI colleagues. I need to be positive during this tough time and appreciate the fact that we were still able to do our mahi via Google Hangout and it was awesome seeing so many kanohi.

GOOGLE FORMS
Using google forms was probably the best part of the day for me as I felt I had success. I have never created a google form but after being shown today I realised how easy it is and it was fun! I have created one Your Day and put it on our Team Toroa Site and popped the link on our FB page. Hopefully the tamariki have a go at filling it in for me :) I look forward to using this in my reading workshops (comprehension follow up activities).

**I couldn't remember how to embed my form into my BLOG so it just shows up!!
-I obviously need to practise this more!!

MY MAPS
I understand that using maps could be a great learning tool for our tamariki but today I found it hard to get hooked on this session. I need to go back and think of ways to utilise this great tool. One point that was made is when using this with the tamariki think carefully about the activity you are getting them to do (make sure they are being cyber smart).

GOOGLE SHEETS
I really enjoyed this session as I have not really used google sheets that well in the past. It was great being shown so many handy tips and it was a bonus getting 'Sheets on Speed' to help us with our exam. I need to make sure I go over this also.

BLOGGING DATA BASE
What a great idea to get the tamariki more motivated to get blogging more! Amie is going to create a video to help me more with this.

BLOGGER
Here are some great tips for blogging, especially using labels.

BUTTONS
Today I popped into our WWW that I would like to know more about creating buttons-it was awesome to have someone respond with this slide, so grateful for all the support.

Some further thinking for me...
-I want to have a Hangout with the Toroa Tamariki at some stage, could make it fun like doing a little Name Workout with them, will be a nice way to see each other
-Sharing is a sign that they have finished their mahi-Dorothy made a good point there!
-I want to get our whanau/tamariki more engaged with our BLOG and our SITE
-Dorothy put a picture of a box of books sitting in a container to be marked, it made me think, if we move more into online what will parents think when the stationary that they paid for is empty because they are doing all their mahi online. How do we manage that shift?
-I can't remember how to embed my form into my BLOG so it just shows up!
-I can't remember how to put a link in a doc so it jumps you down the page-was it to do with the 'contents' learning that we did awhile ago-I need to check
-How do I create a Hangout link?

One bonus, I got to see my niece and nephew today via our Hangout-thanks Ada!

And I got to have my morning tea with my darling Isla :)