Unfortunately I was away for this session so I have caught up by going through the agenda and reading the other blog posts from the DFI group that I am in.
The Share part of the Manaiakalani pedagogy was discussed. Blogger was selected as the platform to share our students' learning on. It has the ability to reach a large audience and the students can easily share their blogs with their families. I need to rethink my ideas of what can be shared on the students' blogs. It is not a showcase for perfect published pieces of work. It can be parts of learning and it can be learning shared to get some feedback on next steps.
Google Forms was explored. I have created one Google Form in the past and of course I have filled quite a few in myself. I need to do a bit of investigating on how to incorporate them into my teaching. I have seen it being used when we were teaching during lockdown where the teacher had set up a feelings survey type form, a form for students to use to check in with their teacher each day. As I write this I am thinking it could be used as a reflective tool at the end of Inquiry topics, and as a starter - collecting prior knowledge on Inquiry or other areas of the curriculum.
I have had a play around with MyMaps but it seems a little bit beyond me at first glance! I will need to find some nice and easy step-by-step instructions and go through what it can do. I can see my students loving to map out their own trips/holidays/adventures but I will need to be a little bit more confident with how it works first.
Google Sheets was also worked through. At this point I use Sheets for my planning and the Must Do/Can Do type planning that I share with my students. I also use it to collate my weekly reward system but I am using a Sheet that has been set up for the whole school, I did not have to input the formula to ensure the addition is correct. I also find Sheets handy for students to keep track of things like their Prototec maths results - they know how to type in what stage etc. they worked at and then insert the link to their results.
I can now:
- freeze columns and rows to keep headings in place
- select and resize multiple columns together to keep the sizing consistent
- highlight cells for a quick add (I knew this trick!)
- applying formula to multiple cells
- autofill cells with months of the year and numbers
- a beginner trial with the Explore button to create graphs
Kia ora Michelle,
ReplyDeleteWell done on navigating the DFI without support, I hope the rewindable nature of the resources made it manageable. What things could we do to make it even better especially in the winter terms where sickness is unavoidable?
Hopefully as we unpack MAPIC your thinking about what goes on the blog will refine and change. We know the act of teaching others really accelerates learning so a focus on this is always good form the blog posts.
Nga mihi,
Mark