Week 6 of our DFI course today. It's amazing to think how much we have been exposed to and learnt in such a short while. Where I was at the beginning of the year to where I am now, not only with my digital fluency, but also with my enthusiasm about teaching and learning - it really can't be measured.
Today we looked at creating forms. I have used forms in the past but, like with anything, I used them a lot and then I didn't. I will be making a point of using these again with my class as they really are a great assessment tool.
We also entered into the frightening and complicated world of Sheets which, before today, was less frightening and complicated as I was incredibly naive about the power of the sheets document. Thank goodness for rewindable learning. There will definitely be some rewinding going on in my learning about this. I currently use sheets for my planning, as I love the tabs you can move so you can see your current week right in front of you. Using formulas I can see will be fantastic for seeing class trends with their learning and I look forward to having a play with this over the coming weeks.
We all completed a website challenge at the end of the day. Dorothy had set us up with a slideshow with instructions and we had a 5 minute time limit to complete the task. Historically, I don't perform well under test conditions, so with sweaty palms, the timer was set. And I surprised myself! My biggest fault that due to panic setting in was that I didn't read the instructions properly in the first round. A good lesson for the upcoming exam.
Another great day of learning. Bring on next week!
Hi Kylie,
ReplyDeleteI also found the sheets really great to work on and ended up going home and doing some work on it for my Maths class. However the work I had already prepared for them and they were doing wasn't so good. I spent Friday telling them that I'd only just learnt how to use sheets and that's why I'd just put their data into a table onto a doc. Most were very accommodating - some telling me "that's alright, I know how to do that".
I did find the website challenge quite difficult, even though I wanted to have a go. As with you I had trouble reading the instructions properly - even with setting it up!!
I am really enjoying this course though.
Thanks,
Joanna