Dealing to Data

DFI - Day 8

The understanding for today was around Empowering, empowering our learners!

The word 'agency' has long since become a buzz word in education circles however for many of our families the word agency has negative connotations and therefore has the opposite impact. Therefore rather than having to repeatedly explain the positivity of the word, it was changed to empowering. After all that is what agency is. The word empower is inclusive for all our whanau.

80% of the Manaiakalani community in live with incomes of $19,000 per annum. They make it work, but they are the working poor. We are not just talking about whanau on benefits, these families are working and trying to juggle child care, bills and life. However it is quite disempowering. 5+ a day back and forth conversations make a difference to the oral language and blogging also strengthens this. We like to call this in our class a bloggersation.

If we want to EMPOWER our children then we can’t cherry pick which of these we do. All of the following need to be part of this journey:

We are building our own spider web for our audience. The more we click on others blogs and bring people to our own blogs then you are building your audience/links to your web.

Google Forms

• Setting up the first question as you want it and then duplicate it to save time.
• Settings - collect email address only works within an organisation
• Shorting the url makes it easier.

I had a chance to create a simple form about pets using different question types.

Google My Maps - Personally this is a great asset but it can also be worthwhile in the classroom too. I've created my next holiday using maps but we could easily use this to show where we are going on camp to Wellington and therefore share it with our whanau.

Google Sheets - This is where I admit a hate:hate relationship with sheets. However I now need to change our status from hate:hate to hate:like. Dorothy, very patiently, went through all the key things that would help us with sheets and I've had a play and it's not too bad.

Sheets on Speed - What we need to know for the exam :)

Google Sheets - We can use data from blogs to help the students create hypotheses around their blog posting. I had a go with a couple of my own bloggers and created the following info:

As bloggers, we are building our own spider web for our audience. The more we click on others blogs and bring people to our own blogs, then we are building our audience/links to our web.

And now the end is near ... and an exam is on the horizon. Of course I am nervous as it's been a full on 8 weeks with a lot of time spent in the learning pit. However I have learnt so much and now need more time to consolidate and 'play' with what I have learnt. Onwards I go ...

Google Sheets Sheets on Speed - What we need to know for the exam Blog Data C Using data from blogs to help the students create hypotheses around their blog posting. We are building our own spider web for our audience. The more we click on others blogs and bring people to our own blogs then you are building your audience/links to your web.