Day 4 Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive Program

Todays session focussed mainly on Sharing

As a teacher new in New Zealand it was wonderful to see how well literate the students are with their chromebooks. To be able to blog and connect to students from, not only New Zealand, but all over the world is such an amazing advantage they have on a daily basis. I m thinking back to the pen-pals we had back in the day. 

Dealing with data

For being a Microsoft girl for nearly 20 years, today was the challenge I have been waiting for. I could still use my prior knowledge but the Google forms and My maps were by far my favourite new learning for today.

Google Forms

I always admired how people have created these cool looking forms you can fill in online and now I have created one by myself.

Please have a crack at it and let me know where I can better myself. I will definitely try again and make it more glamourous.   

Tania's form

Google maps

This was an awesome experience. It is amazing to connect the world. There are so many possibilities to use google maps. This is a wonderful tool to use in the class to learn, create and share within your inquiry about the world. My version is so basic and I can't wait to explore this more. My class will love this. 

Google sheets

Wow, this was the most challenging task we explored thus far. I am used to Microsoft Excel and rarely used it, only the basics. This will make the life of a teacher so much easier. To be able to have all the student's information readily at your fingertips will save an immense amount of time. I need a lot of practice with google sheets.