Day 5 of DFI and Day 9 of the lockdown. Thanks for a great day everyone. Great to have the round-up of gratitude as the opening session of the day and to hear that nature is sustaining many of us.
My memorable take-away from this morning's presentation on visible teaching and learning was that without visibility a student's success depends on their ability to read the teacher's mind. I think visible can also mean transparent learning - students and families can see what is going on, where the learning is going and what is expected - our technology can help us bring LIs and SCs to life.
The discussion about engaging multi-modal and multi-textual learning was great to have as we moved into learning about building our own websites. I have some experience of using websites in the old form - they have been a great place to outline units of work, provide detail of the progression of the learning, and to give students the nuts and bolts of learning activities with the added value of a variety of modes in a rewindable format. I really enjoyed the ease of use of the new sites tool, although I have a long way to go to make engaging websites.
So yes, a tool that is directly related to improving my students' engagement and experience of learning. My life outside of school includes making art and music - of course a shareable website can be a tool for finding an audience for these endeavours too - although I am not quiting my day job!
This the website from today's playing in the sandpit :)
Kia ora Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI too used the classic sites and love the ease of the new sites. I used classic sites as a class site and worked endless hours getting it how I wanted it to. Now in new sites everything is a click away!
How great it is for you to be able to see the usefulness of sites in your music and art life. Sites can be made to look very appealing and I'm sure you will use your artiness to do this.
Mā te wā
Cheryl Torrie
Manaiakalani Facilitator - Tairāwhiti
HI Andrew, I too used the classic sites, and like Cheryl, spent hours trying to get it looking exactly right! With the new layouts on the new sites, it is so much easier and more uniform. It's great that you are looking at ways to use google sites to share your own art and music!
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