Day 4 - Dealing with Data

Today has been rather frustrating, with high winds in the area, we lost power at home early this morning. I travelled to school to get started with DFI, then returned home about an hour later when the power returned. However about 30 mins after returning home the power went out again! I joined the sessions using my phone - I’m not good at this, as I prefer to use a larger device! Unfortunately I missed the pedagogy session sharing and will attempt to look at that later. I liked the idea My Maps to use for classes and personal use. I like the way it can be personalised or localised. Great idea for cross-country. I tried to do some exploring but will attempt some more later. The spreadsheet session was useful and I can certainly use it in my teaching and admin work. I finally learnt how to freeze columns/rows in spreadsheets; filters, conditional formatting, checkbox function, Data validation - what an easy way to limit the data input. Great for shared spreadsheets. I have used forms before, but did manage to complete one I can use with students from our school to gather data about PBL this year. Today was a good opportunity to sort out my blog - I had done posts and created new pages but now with Vicki's help I have it sorted. Below, I have embedded two of my tasks attempted today. Despite the frustrations of earlier today I have found this session very useful.