THURSDAY, 9 AUGUST 2018
- Voice to text has worked well with the dyslexic kids
- Google hangout - would like to use it to talk to students visiting overseas and talking to experts
- Scavenger hunt worked really well. Robyn shared it with the senior syndicate. Encourages collaboration between the older and younger students
- Blogging - some discomfort around the publicity of blogging
- Blogging - has occured between schools. Children have commented on other blogs
- Pedagogy - there is a real buy into the pedagogy
- Google keep - a legendary app
- Stickers - created stickers for the bottom of the scavenger hunt activity
- Google keep - using it in the reading programme. Should be able to listen to the text being read to him
- Screenshots and screen castify - how to use these
- Session last week were pretty full on. Could miss some important aspects of the course
- Voice to text - doesn’t work in an immersion class
- Time - is an issue for some because of the extra time needed to implement the new learning
- Hangout - linking up with colleagues on a professional level would be good
- Strategic perspective - at the college level the staff will need to be upskilled
- Standardise testing - there was a debate at the meeting yesterday to go over the wolf fischer findings from Manaiakalani
- Blogging - requires authentic audiences at the college level
- Blogging - send your parents to the class blog so they can access their children’s blogs. Can either send link or scan a QR code or use ‘wsgraham’
Highly recommend watching the video ‘Sir Ken Robinson’ around creativity - slide 1 on the powerpoint
Continued to go through the slides to talk about what ‘creativity’ looks like and how important it is
SCRATCH - is a really good programme to have a look at
CREATING A FORM - use the link (under the ‘chalk and talk’)
- Start in your google drive
- Click new and then more, where you will find the google forms
- Quite self-explanatory
- Eveyrone had a turn at completing a form
In your drive create a new drawing
- Click the image menu at the top (little mountain picture)
- Click camera
- Click insert and it will put it on the ‘drawing’
- Click file
- Click download as
- Click ‘jpg’
- Click top left (3 dots) drop down menu at top right corner
- Choose save as ???
- Click select files in the middle
- Find file where you save it
- Click upload
If you want to send the form to someone
- Click ‘link’ to send to others for them to access the form
- Click ‘imbed’ if you wanted to send it straight to your blog
- Under the ‘settings’ you can choose what the settings would be for the document
- We sent it by link and pasted onto slide 4
- (filled in name on form then pressed ‘control k’ pasted link and added title to link)
- Then done
- We need to be able to text wrap the information in each cell (top right side of the menu)
- How to have a few items in a cell - press the ‘alt’ key to let you have a list in a cell
- Auto fill - happens from the bottom corner of the cell. Can be helpful when doing formulas or trying to find the patterns of something (hold down shift key and drag) which creates a pattern of the entry in the cell
- E.g 10, 20, 30 etc
- ‘Data’ at the top of the drop down menu (split text to columns) really good to use with first name and last name
- Formulas are used quite a lot in this document in order to cover a lot of work quickly
- ‘Functions’ there is a ‘sum’ option to add up all the numbers in a selected area
- ‘Fx’ option menu. You can add a formula to the cell to add selected numbers only.
- ‘Format’ drop down menu changes the way the cell is formatted e.g. date with different formats
- Good to use when using a budget 2*$10= (the total in the cell) , click the column then click * then click next column to multiply the columns
- Using the explore button at the top bottom right corner - You can click the cell for information you might need to look for regarding the information in the cell you have chosen
- An amazing teacher that has used a spreadsheet
- Go to ‘www.mymaps.com’
- To create a map and use the features of included
- We had to add another layer to the map using the information from the Google Form we filled out at the beginning of the session.
- Great way to identify places in NZ or around the school where we need information
- Great way to measure how long, how far, etc