Our session today began with the Manaiakalani Pedagogy around Share/Tohatoha. Sharing has been around forever with Adam and Eve, and cultural narratives so it is only natural that it continues. Posting finished work on Blogger is an incentive for learners to complete work and share. Sharing the learning processes is also valuable.
Manaiakalani chose Blogger as it suits Google, has a good check system, provides the largest audience through Google. Cybersmart lessons are practical as they have an authentic context.
Sharing can be powerful when it is the starting point.
Hapara Hot Tips - setting up groups, recorder tiles so students can appear at top/bottom and won't impact on others' class view
Google Forms - we created one with different answer options, multiple choice, short answer, lots of options for customising it.
Google Sheets - this was most interesting, lots of helpful hints that I will be using when collecting and using data. Best thing was freezing columns, so this stays with you as you move across the page, awesome! Also autofill, filter and formatting.
Our task was to create a graph using Blog Data.
As we are always collecting, analysing and using data I am looking forward to consolidating the skills we covered today. I like the idea of using Google Sheets more for classroom planning round group work, where we can create new sheets for different needs.
Ka kite ano.
