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Wednesday, 8 May 2019

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!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Kylie,

    I 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

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