DFI Week 4 Blog Post

DEALING WITH DATA  

My Map

This is my version of a Map.  This was pretty cool and fun to do once you got the hang of using My Maps. The first layer is with the DFI cohorts dream/best international holidays. The second layer is my life in locations and durations around the world. Basically where I have lived for any period of time. I would like to give a go at importing a famous journey someone travelled, not sure which one but that would be fun to give a go. Not sure how to import it though.

Google Forms

We learnt about creating a google form. I have filled out many of these but this was my first time creating one, and I actually created one that I want to use on my kids, about our inquiry focus for this term and to get some student voice on next terms focus.

My Form

I'm not completely sure however how to embed a form onto a blog post, or if that is even possible. So here is the link to my form.

Google Sheets

We learnt about sheets, and I wish I knew what I now know back in the past. It would have made my life so much easier!! I always hated data analysis and spreadsheets because they were so fiddly and difficult. Now I have a much better understanding of google sheets and some of the cool tricks that you can do to make using them easier and even enjoyable!

We learnt about Alternating colours, Conditional formating, creating tables and graphs for our data, two different ways of doing this, we learnt about "=sparkline( " which was so cool!

I learnt this week that dealing with Data does not have to be something that is dreaded, something to not be looking forward too. Know that I have some tools and new learning I can look forward to a new and improved way of dealing with data without the added stress. That is the crux of it, it has taken away a lot of the stress that comes with data, and analysis of data.

Analysis of a students Blog

NB: I figured out hw to make this fit to the page by adding a width and height to it, thanks you Marie for that!!

This is a n analysis of a students from Tamaki Primary School, and I have analysed his blog posts for a selection of months in 2020. 

Dyzon @ Tamaki Primary School

This shows that as the year progresses the students number of posts decrease dramatically, with 16 posts in March, dow to 3 posts in December 2020. It would be interesting if I was his teacher and what I would attribute this drop to.

In reflection, for my own class I want to get blogs set up for all my students and put blogs into my literacy programme so that it was a weekly expectation for 1 post a week. And then doing this sort of analysis and trying to understand why a certain trend came about, what were the reasons, was it  for example, COVID = lockdown, illness, loss of engagement, boring, etc.

I really want to get my students blogs set up, this session has just reinforced this need. I want them to post pieces or examples of the mahi and learning and for this to b celebrated.

What I'm not sure on is how to create an authentic audience for them. I don't even know how to go about this at all. Would be interesting to do some research over the next week and find out.