Session 6: Dealing with Data

Today I learnt about Google Forms. It is amazing the special features Forms have now where you can add sections into divide content. You can also add link your segments together. I can see this working for pick a path reading activities and for explicit statistical investigations. I really liked how you can import sheets into Google Maps. When you create a questionnaire in Forms as part of a getting to know you unit, it would be great to use Google Maps and to get the students to add a photograph of themselves on the country/city they've chosen. I love how these maps can be published onto blogs.

This afternoon we were shown Blog Post Analysis, in which the students could track the number of posts over time (months and years). It was very interesting to look at one of the students blogs whom I use to teach. This afternoon I analysed one of my students blogs over the last two years I taught her. It appears that there has been a bit of a slide with the number of blog posts that she has published this year. There are many variables behind this, however the quality of the posts have not gone down. Good things take time to achieve. I would like to do something similar to this next year. It would be a great opportunity for the students to set goals around the number of blog posts they would like to publish upon their blogs.