As always, an interesting day, only slightly marred by problems with Grid View. Great support from facilitators, some of whom were suffering from the same problems, to sort this out. College responded quickly to my email and managed to correct the problem at their end. This meant everything was running smoothly again after the last break. It did mean that I was not able to fully concentrate on Manaiakalani's Share philosophy. The day's learning, however, fully reinforced the philosophy and, I feel, filled in any gaps.
For me the day highlighted the ways in which the google suite of programmes can be used with each other - and the fact that they form a far more powerful tool when used together than on their own. Whilst there are definitely programmes that do certain things in a better way than google, when used together the sum is greater than the parts.
My Maps - and its use as an illustration of data gathered through forms - was an example of this. I had never used My Maps before and I could instantly see lots of uses for it. I hope to introduce our International Department to this feature and produce a cool little map to put on our college website (in the hope that international students will, at some point in the near future, again become frequent visitors). It would also be suitable to put into the on-line version of our prospectus.
I have used forms before, but not the pathways feature. I am looking forward to putting this to good use.
Again, finding out how easy it is to use the data from a sheet in a visual way on a slide or drawing, was enlightening - I have included my, very rough, experiment with this below:
Link to Sheet
Link to Drawing
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