This morning we learned about the Share Kaupapa of Manaiakalani. This korero made me think about how many opportunities my students have to share their learning. At the moment my students mainly share on their blogs during our Manaiakalani lessons. I want to work on creating more authentic sharing opportunities. Whether this is using our blogs more throughout the week or sharing in other ways.
The biggest take away for my professional development are all the extra tips we learned about Google Sheets. Just little tricks that can make a huge difference and save a lot of time. I liked that you could freeze information so that it stayed put as you moved through large sheets. This will be extremely helpful when I am adding assessment data and do not want to lose the name of the student. I had some idea around using formulas as well but was great to learn a little more especially around creating them and dragging a formula across the sheet. I can't wait to use all of these tricks to make admin and paperwork a bit easier.
It will be great to use Google Sheets as a way for my stduents to share their learning. They learnt a bit about creating graphs from sheets during a Manaiakalani lesson but it would be interesting to see what else they could do. Especially looking at how many views they are getting on their blog from other countries. This will also be a great tool for science fair next year. Attached is a graph that I created from a students blog posts. It shows how many posts they made a month over 5 years.
Using the My Maps app could be very helpful in my personal life. For example, being able to create an itinerary on a place I am travelling to. By doing this I can seperate them into catergories such as food or activities. I like that you can add extra information and images about a certain place. It can also help to know how far you will need to walk etc.
Totally agree here that looking for ways to share is always important. However it can be tricky to get going. One way to look at the blogs is to see it as a tool to aid in the finishing of projects rather than a portfolio for finished work. Any post can be updated to show the finished product but connecting to an authentic audience to solve problems or learn new things can be so empowering. I am glad you managed to get some takeaways from the google sheets session and that you are looking at how to use it with your kids in the future. It can be such a handy tool albeit one that can make your head hurt! Keep up the great mahi!
ReplyDeleteKa pai tō mahi! Thanks for sharing your mahi here today. There was a lot to get through once again.
ReplyDeleteWe can talk about blogs as a learning refelection place in class - when we are out of lockdown.
Sheets have so may functionalities and once again, when we are out of lockdown we can have a session on them in class together.
Cheryl