DFI Day 4 - Data for student accountability and engagement

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This week we have been leaning about Google Sheets, and forms. Using Google forms as a front end we can collect data from a questionnaire and present it in wonderful and interesting ways.

Google Forms ideas: Pick a path, Make quiz, surveys, spelling tests -if you set up the sheets to mark with conditional formatting.


Google Sheets ideas: Graphing any data collected. For maths- statistics or for data that might motivate or encourage students. So many functions for formatting and taking out data you need. I most love the function to turn sheets into graphs. Here I have put data from number of blog post for a student, and entered into sheets. Then using the 'Explore' tool to create a graph. My hope is this will reinforce statistics skills and encourage the student to examine data relating to her in an authentic manner. In this case it may encourage students to blog more often and check her comments.

Google Maps ideas:  Plot birthplaces, holidays, show community spaces. Cross country routes. Measure distances, perimeters and areas.

Here I plotted places from my student's Pepeha locations onto Google Maps.

Comments

  1. Sharon Spragg31 May 2021 at 13:52

    Kia ora Jane,

    Great to see you making use of the Google Sheets. It is pretty amazing to be able to create graphs using the Explore too. It's funny how something so simple seems so complicated.

    I hope you find use for these two tools in your classroom.
    Ngā mihi,
    Sharon

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