DFI- Week 4

Sharing isn’t something new, it’s part of being human.  

Connected learners share: positive, thoughtful, helpful.  Face to face sharing, Small group- whanau size, sharing with a group of known people, big groups that we share to (assembly, festival, still in real time), online world.

BLOGGER: Why was it chosen as our online platform? 

• Resembles the spaces that young people want to be on

• Able to provision this legally, systematically and securely

• No new sign in with GSuite users

• Guaranteed three check system

• Largest audience reached via Google

• Multi Purposed- it can look and feel different to other blogs

• Can be used by learners and teachers

• Supports our cybersmart curriculum 

• Teaches kids how to ‘drive’ in the digital world, Blogger is functional and allows kids to learn in an easy way

• Connecting with whanau is not the purpose of Blogger, it is to protect our kids and allow them to become cybersmart 

Share to finish learning: 

• Encourages kids to ‘finish’ something in order to be able to share it

• Lots of kids don’t value ‘finishing’ so giving them this opportunity will benefit them when they are in the workforce. 

• Having a  purpose for sharing is important (for learning from others, to teach others and to start new learning conversations) Sharing for feedback (feed forward)

Google Forms: Good for student voice and evaluations 

• A way to collect and sort information 

• Search ‘forms.new’ and start with a blank template 

• Add, duplicate, required are all great options 

• Add images, titles, sections and videos

• Settings: Top right hand corner- can turn off and on depending on what you are wanting. You can restrict the user info (distribute to people further than your school). Check only add the form once. Allowing others to edit their mistakes. 

• Summary chart - You can choose whether others can see this - or just yourself. 

• You can send the form once complete via email. You don’t actually share the file with others like with other google apps. Share it as an email, as a link or embedded (like on the site)

• Viewing response data, you can export this into a spreadsheet. You can link other forms to the same spreadsheet (this is to create a new tab).

Google maps

• Good way to introduce a new place e.g. camp destination to anxious learners. 

• Can add layers, move map around, marker - grab and drop-, pin places, add information and pictures. Line tool to connect two parts together. Use the measuring tool 

• Great for measurement - maths 

• Layering- School map with ECEs underneath then the universities on top etc

• Customise markers - click on in and add details on style, pictures, make it a house or a star etc

• Can bring in information from a spreadsheet (e.g we filled in the form, download the data from there into a spreadsheet and import the data from there. Tell google maps what you want to ‘bring in’  e.g. names and selfie pics etc