DFI 4

Today was full on with lots of new stuff to take in. It was 'Dealing with Data' day and the learning attached to it was quite interesting.

Another walk through into the Manaiakalani pedagogy, with today being 'Share'-Tohatoha and how that it is also an important part of the Learn, Create, Share model. It's about having an 'authentic audience for their learning outcomes.' Since 2005 the media bubble has kept up a frenetic pace with new apps and innovative ways to make life easier or to hold and capture audiences attention.

The Google Forms was great to finally tidy up the missing 'bits' that I wasn't sure of. I can see that information gathering, class tests and quizzes could be used in this way especially as I use it a lot in maths and literacy.

The Hāpara Hot Tips was great. I have done lot of trial and error runs using the dashboard, from checking student work, sharing a file to students, grouping students into literacy, maths and groups necessary. I am looking forward to more hot tips in the future.

Once again the time to explore and practise the new tools was great to sort it out in your mind about how it worked. The Google Sheets with Gerhard provided new information to take in and this would be very helpful to know and cut down the time to show and produce data. I am immediately putting this learning into practice.

Google My  Maps showed how it could be used to extend learning and develop a whole lot of discussion points about conversion, currency, distance, time zones. I will look at using this in the measurement unit.


The World Map can't be drawn in a smaller size to show distance or a flying symbol to create location to location.

Analysis Data from a Student Blog

The data shows that in one particular month there were a lot of page views with the highest being 9 views. A lot of activity during the lockdown.

The highest all time page views were 678. I think this is when this student started and everyone was keen to support each other with views and comments.

A wide range of audience with some South American countries involved. New Zealand had the highest recorded possibly from friends and families. A real spread of audience viewers.