DFI #6 Wed 1st May

Enabling Access - Visible Teaching & Learning

Today was a great reminder about how to get the most out of Visible Teaching and Visible Learning. When looking at a range of Google class sites, it was evident what was working well and what was not. Everybody obviously has their own preferences for some things 

(style/colours/themes etc) but there are simple rules to help us to ensure we are making them as accessible and usable for our learners and their whanau.

The sharing of our own google sites was a stressful experience for me as I knew I had not made many improvements to it as I had been using Hapara mostly for sharing resources and tasks with the students.

My first goal this afternoon was to tidy up the home page. I really liked the sites that had student photos so I used a class photo for my home page. I also liked the pages that had a few main buttons to direct students to their learning. I have like the way my Literacy, Inquiry and Maths buttons are now clear and bold have decided to leave the other simple ones below as it still might provide a bit of a short cut for some.   New Look Home Page below!

DFI 5 - Wed 3rd April

DFI 5 - DEVICES

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Reminded of the value of blogging to lift literacy capabilities and levels of our students. Without the in school support I have not made a start on blogging with the students yet. This is something I would definitely like to start before the holiday break. I have found it much easier to apply the tools we are learning about in our DFI sessions, as I am feeling confident with these after spending the time working on them.


What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Great resources shared to support teaching of being cybersmart. There is so much available to use to support teachers and fabulous resources to copy and modify to suit our learners needs. Lots of great screencastify videos used to support both teachers and students.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
I really need to get into the blogging side of things with my students as I keep putting this off! I am aiming to use some of the resources shared, so that I can alter and make my own in order to set my students up for success.