DFI- Week 4

This week there was a lot to take in for the DFI program. We learned about several different programs that will assist us in our teaching practice. This included Google Forms, Maps, Google sheets, and Blogger Stats. 

Challenges: 

• Google sheets is one of the tools that I am less experienced with. This was a learning curve for me however I feel a lot more confident using this tool. I use it for assessment normally but it's great to see other ways that it can be used. 
• Google Maps was a new concept for me. I think that I am going to need to practice Maps a little bit more. I did see the positive benefits of this program and how it could be used for our inquiry topic of 'Culture'. 

Highlights: 

• Latham took us through using Google sheets and how to insert graphs. I feel as though this tool would be incredibly useful for a statistical inquiry unit at school. It is great to find news tools that my learners will enjoy. 
• It was fantastic to have a visual representation of student blog posting in graph form using Google Sheets. I was surprised how quick and easy it was to create so many different styles of graphs. I analysed the data from a girl in my class and I was interested to see the drastic increase in blog posts and sharing over the lockdown period. I have attached the graph below in the results. 
• Google Forms is an excellent skill to have mastered and something that I can see myself using in my year 5/6 class to gain student voice and ideas. 

Results: 

My Google Form

The increase in blogging over the lockdown period.

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