Digital Fluency Intensive - Session 4: Dealing with Data

Today's DFI session we have covered using Hapara, Google Forms, Google My Maps and Google Sheets. I have filled out Google Forms previously, however I had not created one before.

Here are the main points that I have picked up from this session:

• Hapara hot tip - can move the tiles with children's names on them around to move priority learners up the top and keep a closer eye on them.
• Google Forms: This was my first time creating a Google Form, and trying out the different question types, themes etc. This will be a useful tool to use with students and staff.
• Google My Maps: Learned about adding different layers. This tool will be useful when looking at where students and their families have come from, and when discussing world events. I will need to have more of a play around with this tool to feel more confident using it with students.
• Google Sheets: I use Google Sheets occasionally, and have mostly learned what I know through playing around (such as freezing columns and rows and resizing multiple columns). It was good to have a reminder of how to use the functions, as I don't use these often. When creating my chart about how many blog posts we make each month, I found it a bit tricky to show what the blue and red colours meant (labelling them as 2019 and 2020) - however after a play around I was able to figure this out.
• Recording screens on an iPad: This is something that was mentioned in our smaller bubble chat, and was a tool that I was not aware of. This will be helpful to use in the classroom, as I am in a Year 3/4 space where the Year 4s use Chromebooks and the Year 3s use iPads. The Year 3s will be able to record their screens this way while the Year 4s use Screencastify.