Day 6 on Day 22!
Very much in the thick of online teaching and very glad to be in the middle of DFI at this time. Getting great practice with some of the skills we have learned - hangouts, screen-castify, hyper-links etc.
Connecting was the key Manaiakalani kaupapa word today, and I enjoyed Dorothy's reference to the huge importance of face-to-face connecting, including the addition of our photos on our websites, having cameras on in our hangouts, students seeing their faces on our presentations etc. Something that I have still to develop is responding to blogs - as we heard today, connecting is a two-way thing.
Today we focused on creating and developing our own websites - I worked on creating one for our Learning Support Centre at BOIC, in my SENCO role. This is a skeleton site at this stage but I think it will be worthwhile as a resource for teachers, whanau and students once I learn more and make it more visually apealling and functional.
Sites will definitely help our students, and are the centre-point of learning at the moment as we teach online. I would like to develop the student page of the LS Centre site with useful and fun activities for some of our students who are absent from time to time with health or access issues.
As for my personal google life - I am looking foward to having a weekend away from screens! - but at the same time I am relying on all-things-digital to keep in touch with family at the moment, like we all are. Thanks everyone for a great day - my apologies for my multi-tasking, although I am managing my mic well enough :)
Hi Andrew
ReplyDeleteDelighted you're feeling more confident with the Google Education suite apps and are able to see how they can enhance your teaching practice. Really valuable to have a centre-point or central hub for all your learning resources as having them in one place will make it much easier for your students to find their learning.
Your SENCO site will be useful not only for your students but also their parents and the wider community. I think you currently have your SENCO site viewing options set to 'only those at Bay of Islands College' could you change the settings to 'anyone with the link can view' or 'public'. Looking forward to seeing what you have put together so far ;)