DFI 4 Dealing with Data

Data

In our Bubble Group we talked about - "Record to Slides" (Extension) App - Voice Recorder to put audio onto slides I will have another look at this as an alternative to what we did last week as Google slides and audio is definitely something very useful in the classroom.

Hapara Hot Tips - Remember to go to 'More" to check out Blog Posts. 'Comments' section - Model positive, thoughtful comments especially those with few or no comments. SPAM - definitely don't click on it!! ***Remember to talk to Cheryl about Hapara and get it pinned.***

Connecting with Manaiakalani - Share Blogger as a Medium to Share. Sharing to Learn.

Google Forms - Vicki - Title, Put into 2020 file, Duplicate Qn. Go to settings to change who, what, where. This is something I'll use so will go back and revisit - didn't get my Fairy Tales Google Form completed today, unfortunately.

Google Maps and My Maps - Maria - I'm not sure how and where I would use this at this stage. Will look some more into it and see how it could fit in with me at school, professionally and my personal life.

I had a go at making my own Road Trip including photos of the destinations (unfortunately the photos haven't shown up in the screenshot!) - I can see how I would use this basic function of My Maps personally and with my class.

Google Sheets - Vicki - Spreadsheet on Google Drive - Hand used for grabbing rows or columns. Resize rows. It can do the maths for you (Functions tool). Filtering - sort by gender etc. Explore tool on sheets - can ask qn about data or make charts. Conditional Formatting - set parameters and change the way it looks, can create rules.

I have used Google Spreadsheets to input data in the past - but have never created my own. I have definitely learnt more about many of the functions they can do - Wow!! 

I had a go at finding the averages on the data we were given - I was able to find an individual's average and then use that to find the group average, I could rank them lowest to highest and highest to lowest!!! But my Explore tool would not pop up the graphs for me to use. *** See Cheryl*** An awesome tool to organise data that after practise to become faster will be  great tool for our Data Analysis.

Room 4's Blog Posts for 2020 (so far) I was able to average the number of blogs so far for 2020 and then use the Explore function to get charts that I could put on my Sheet. The average number of blogs was 4.4 a month. I was then able to insert my charts to Google Drawing. By having it in Google Drawing if there are any changes made - these will be recorded also.

Great to see how all the facets of Google can be linked and used together!!!

Blog Comments

Insert hyperlinks to link back to learning or other people's blog posts. 

I have uaed hyperlinks before in my blogs when I was unable to get an image on my page. Great idea to use regularly!!

Installing in the students to make blog comments that are Positive, Thoughtful and Helpful is very important - also helps them to be less boring and robotic.

I am now finding (and using everwhere!) the benefit of using the Screenshot function on my laptop!      I find Visual Images great to help me remember and access information learnt!! A great tool for rewinding the learning!