3 Hours of Sweating: Relief to see the back of the exam!

Ubiquitous learning links nicely to the Summer Learning Journey, and helps to reduce the summer slump.  What stood out from this was a notion that we discussed a few weeks earlier… if it’s worth teaching, then it’s worth capturing.  If it’s worth learning, then it’s worth capturing. So reinforces the visible learning, and ubiquitous kaupapa that Manaiakalani stand by.  Rewindable, accessible, equitable.

Although rather gutted that this will be the last Digital Fluency Intensive session, I’m so pleased to have the 3 hour exam behind me.  During the 3 hours there were a number of multi-choice questions, as well as drag and drop parts where you had to match to the correct thinking.  Quite an even spread across the G Suite I thought. A couple of bits and pieces with Sheets, creating a filter and sorting data. Some questions and some components you needed to go and organise in your pretend account, which was more or less a matter of following your nose, and parts of the assessment relating to Youtube, fair chunk on Forms, Gmail, Tasks, Calendar, and Slides and Docs of course.

A huge thank you to all of the wonderful participants and facilitators of this Cohort Two DFI.  You have all made it so, so enjoyable. Full of laughs, and lovely times. Can’t thank you enough.

DFI Session 9 - 20.09.2019

Professional Posting from a Sun Lounger

Bula!  Professional blog posting from the sun lounger I have found out is not my strong suit.  Too many distractions, including a great read... which I can't guarantee this will be.

For DFI week 8, Friday 13th September, I had a crack at the Google Site speed wero.  Not easy.  Just made it so I'm feeling good about pending 3 hour exam.  Plus I hear there'll be snacks.  Can't go wrong with team snacks.  Worked through the sample exam questions, one of which stumped me in terms of how to sort data from descending to ascending which I've done lots of thought was quite simple.  As it happens, after a bit of playing I've figured it out that I indeed meant to select all first, then work through the details like selecting the correct column, and marking if there's a header at all.  Sorted!  Ha.

Some of the DFI content could well have been my favourite, even though I was not there!  Fun fact, two of my all time absolute FAVOURITE famous New Zealanders are John Campbell and Nigel Latta, so empowered was just the missing piece of the puzzle for me, bringing visible, ubiquitous and connected together.  So pleased to see some TVNZ footage presented by these champions had made it to the Empowered slides... on my 'to watch' list certainly.

The digital portraits created through Drawing were AMAZING!  Briar kindly met with me and got me up to speed, showing me some tools I didn't know about... wow!  The potential uses of this Google App seem endless, and here I was thinking Slides was unbeatable.

Snazzy sorting with Sheets + getting fannatical with Forms, DFI Session 7

6th September 2019: Dealing with Data, DFI #7

Great to get back into Mymaps, having attended Gerhard's Toolkit about Geotools last week.  Nice to have another play and see how simple it is to add markers, and lines and little icons too.  I plotted some of the top mountain biking spots around the globe, and played around with importing data from a google sheet.





Had a play at creating my second ever Google Form.  Managed to use a range of different question types, from multi-choice to short answer responses, and now have embedded results below.  Sushi and Sunshine Brewery for the win!

A highlight for me was exploring Sheets.  Have learned some tips and tricks, including freezing a column... super helpful around data time.  Also, double clicking to use the same formula as you'd already programmed into a target cell... what a time saver.

The manaiakalani kaupapa we dived into was CONNECTED, and I have to say it's got to be a fave for me.  Forever stamped as an extroverted people person (which as an aside, I completely dispute), I highly value connecting with others, especially in our highly relational, interpersonal profession.  Definitely heartening to hear Dorothy affirm that there's no replacement for face-to-face interactions.  Sure, technologies help us to connect in times where we otherwise would not be able to.  I agree with Dorothy in that there's no replacement for in-person connections... looking into someone's eyes changes the whole conversation.

On that connected note, as much as I'd love to visit Splash Planet with you all: