Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Session 4 of DFI - Enabling Access- Sites

Today our Connecting with 'The Manaiakalani Pedagogy' focus, was on Share/Tohatoha


  • Sharing is nothing new - we've always done it - it's human nature and instinct.
  • In sharing we are 'Creating and Sustaining relationships'
  • Mode - we all share in different ways but Blogger is the primary online space for our young people to share. 
  • Sharing to an authentic audience - if we don’t engage people they will just move on
 
in order to increase student outcomes.


Learn - Create - Share can be linear or cyclical

We got the opportunity to explore some class sites and evaluate these sites through 2 Lenses
  • Engagement
  • User Experience - Effective sites have both these elements
The checklist will be valuable to revisit when we have finished adapting our own class site.

We looked at how to set up a Class Site and then got to explore each other's 'Class Sites' and were
given some feedback. The feedback was very good 'food for thought' and also allowed our site to be
measured against important components that should be on the site e.g.
We set a goal for ourselves - our site lacked a 'home button'.
Our site has tried to meet 2 goals - 1 user friendly for students and 1 parents can also see what is
expected. Although it is still work in progress we are slowly getting there.
My thoughts: I have found that I am still getting my head around using 'Explain Everything' and this has
been the focus - will work on the Visual Timetable as a way for students to get into the activities.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for sharing your Learning Site today Sue. It was wonderful to have the opportunity (and the time) to explore these amazing sites and gleam some ideas that we may be able to incorporate into our own creations. Sharing is certainly an important part of our pedagogy and it was empowering to be reminded that this concept is not new, but one that we have been able to build on. Your class site is certainly well on the way to being something that both whānau and students can share and I look forward to seeing what you add to it next.

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