Dealing with Data - DFI Session 4

A highlight for the Manaiakalani pedagogy of the shared element was a quote by Dorothy Burt about having an authentic audience: 

'People who choose to listen to you'

I thought this was a great analogy of an authentic audience. It's simple enough for children to understand as well. 

I loved the new addition of the Hapara Hot tip. I found it very beneficial and look forwarding to learning more through these snippets. 

A couple of highlights from this week:
It was informative seeing the link between Google form, My Maps and Google Sheets. 

Google forms - I look forward to trialling google form as a testing platform. I can see it being used well as a quick snapshot before a unit of learning. 

My Maps - I think this would be handy during our current unit of Diversity. As mentioned during the session it's a great way to show children's heritage. 
I'd like to try to embed it onto the class site for children to see the spread of diversity in our class. 

Google Sheets - I love a good sheet. I use Google Sheets quite regularly both professionally and for personal use. 
I haven't used the chart/graph function very much, so it was a good refresher. It wasn't as user friendly as Microsoft excel graphs use to be. 

For our create session we looked at analysing blog post data. Particularly looking at post frequency and analysing any trends and dips and looking at the reason for them.

Here is a graph showing a snapshot of my class blog frequency over the last 2 year:

I started blogging last year and as you can tell from the data there were very few posts. However this year I have found (especially due to distance learning) my number of post have increased.

A big focus will be on continuing to blog regularly. Once this becomes common practice for me I will focus on sharing and using the blog posts in class.