What did I learn that increased my understanding of being connected with Manaiakalani’s kaupapa and pedagogy?
When we are well connected we are all getting and giving the same messages.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
In Google Sheets I really liked the tip about being able to 'freeze' a column or columns and then navigate across the rest of the columns. This is great and something I was not aware of.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Google Maps - although I was not able to try this out as I did not have access to MyMaps I can see this being used by my class as we investigate our family histories this term. It would be cool to make one of these maps showing where all of our ancestors originally came from.
I am really enthusiastic about the ideas shared by Alicia Craig from Ohaewai School around using Google Forms. She shared ideas such as a from for gathering students number knowledge and creating reading responses on Google Forms to help them prepare for online testing situations and make them familiar with such applications. The thing that most inspired me was the BreakOut idea, I can see the kids being very engaged and motivated by this. I have begun today creating my own BreakOut for my students later in the Term linked to our Topic and Reading.
I learnt a lot more today about what is possible in forms and began creating a simple example of how a pick-a-path type story might work.
We also explored Google Sheets today.
As part of our learning around Google Sheets we created Charts which can be inserted into other Docs. These can either be "published" and embedded or saved as an image.
We then also completed a Blog Analysis Graph to show a students blogging history since they began.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
I learnt how and why to clear my cache!
Veronica, I had a giggle reading your last comment - clearing your cache, something we often don't know about or overlook. What a fabulous idea about importing students ancestor data onto Google My Maps. Presenting that visually will help student connect with their learning on a new level. I look forward to seeing how this pans out with your class.
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