"Whew!" is all I can say!!! The Google Educator Level 1 exam was intense but, as the screenshot image above shows, I passed. Completing the exam was two hours, 58 minutes and 33 seconds of intense concentration, intense completion of tasks and a bit of googling on the side to find out how to do tasks I couldn't automatically do. The parts of the exam that got my blood pressure rising to places it should never go were: creating You Tube playlists filtering data in descending order in Google Sheets The final thing to stump me was performing tasks in the Google Omnibox. What the #@%& is the Google Omni box? I asked my facilitator & was promptly told to google it. I thought to myself through gritted teeth 'What the #@%& do you think I've been doing for the last seven minutes!!' After reading and watching YouTube clips I discovered that the Google Omnibox is just the search bar - something I frequently use!!! Anyway, relief!
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Today I arrived a wee bit late after having flown back from a Manaiakalani Convenors' Meeting at Grey Main School in Greymouth. Before boarding my plane from Wellington to Gizzy I completed the WWW in prep for today's session on Media & then flicked through Dorothy's slide deck on empowerment. The whole Manaiakalani kaupapa of empowerment really resonated with me - especially when as a school leader I want education to empower not just our students but also our whanau - to give them rangatiratanga!! Being connected with digital technology, having visible learning & being ubiquitous (anytime, anywhere & global) empowers our tamariki. This brings agency and also helps our students create their digital footprint and supports them to collaborate. This is true for teachers too - utilising the kaupapa to empower them (us) too! I've had some new learning on using the Google Draw tool. The wee animation above is an image I created on google draw. I gro
Today we've had a deep, but very quick dive, into google forms, google maps and google sheets. I'm pretty comfortable with using google forms & have previously used this app. I've recently made the shift to google sheets from excel & have been using basic features for my own purposes of data analysis. My new learning today was pivot tables. These will be useful for organising data in different ways - particularly if there are selected points of interest to analyse & interpret. I'd never used MyMaps before. We completed some simple exercises of pinning locations, using the measuring tool & uploading data from a google form database to the map. The teachers in our group may find a fun use for this with their classes. As for me, maybe I'd use it for tracking or measuring personal travel. Time will tell. Here's the map I created. The pins show my DFI colleagues best holiday destinations. I've also pinned my school. After lunch, w