Category: googleapps

Social Media Revolution Infographic Survey Data

Well it’s been just over a week since I tweeted a survey on behalf of my Year 7s. They are currently creating Infographics using Piktochart about the Social Media Revolution. The topic will form one of the units on the soon to be showcased #digitalstudies moodle site. They have gathered some data from the Internet about key facts and also images to put on their Infographics but we wanted to collect some raw data to do some modelling / data handling. I promised them I would try and get some responses but have been overwhelmed with the response with over 100 lovely people submitting the from so far. As promised I am publishing the data in raw format for others to use should they wish. I blogging this while on the move but will hopefully embed the summary of responses later. I’ve included the form, the summary, a link to the spreadsheet and embedded google spreadsheet so have fun ;) Thank you to you all for completing the form, my Year 7s and I really appreciate all your help.

https://docs.google.com/a/strobertofnewminster.co.uk/spreadsheet/gform?key=tYSvoLn1BI9faKzBgAUSu-Q&gridId=0#chart

https://docs.google.com/a/strobertofnewminster.co.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=tYSvoLn1BI9faKzBgAUSu-Q#gid=0

Please help my Year 7′s – Social Media Revolution Infographic Data

As part of their infographic unit, my Year 7s are gathering data about the use of social media. In just 2 days we’ve had over 20 responses from my PLN on twitter, we are hopefully aiming for a sample of 100 ;) They collectively drafted the questions and I promised them I would try and get as may respondants as possible to complete the google form. Please take 2 minutes to complete the form below, we would really appreciate your help. I will publish both the infographics and also the data set should others want to use the data. If the form fails to load please use this link

Measuring success – Students setting their own success criteria #googleapps

 

This of course is not a new idea but something i have started to use at Key Stage 3 with Google Docs.

We have started to use Google Docs with students to share their success criteria for Scratch and a Google Sketchup project. The aim is to improve student independence and allow them to set measurable success criteria which they can both use to measure the success of their solution but also use in AFL activities.

We started by sharing initial ideas on a primarypad of what makes a good game of elements of game design but also bad game design

As a class we extracted out the keywords for both good and bad game design and students decided to use at least 3 of these to set the success driers for their solution. Prior to this exercise students have been using their scratch planning document and have previously played around with Scratch with a supply teacher. For homework students are  playing retro games in order to understand the principle of game design (blog post to follow).

The main difficulty of the task was students setting measurable targets for their tasks. The words interesting, good and challenging were commonly used but with class discussion we tried to set ones which they could use in order to manage the success of their solutions.

 

Interestingly I read @misterel’s blog post at the weekend which looks at students achieving a Level 6 in ICT. We have very high attainment targets with the vast majority of students expected to hit level 6s by the end of year 9. By using this idea I’m hoping to give students more ownership over their projects and enable them to achieve the level 6 level descriptors.

For Sketchup, students explored a similar theme and some settled on content rather than the design of their buildings.

Once students feel confident in setting their success criteria using both the project outline and their knowledge of the software solutions they should become more confident in setting more achievable success criteria.

We are also using a google form to gather feedback for their projects periodically for themselves and also from their peers. This has been a success so far, where initially we were setting aside time in the lesson to peer assess, students are now independently asking their peers for feedback and using the google form to record this.

At present Google Apps Edu is underpinning a lot of the learning in my classroom and i hope to blog on this soon.