27.8.2019- Session Six
Focus: Enabling Access
Today was my sixth session in the DFI (Digital Fluency Intensive) course. These are some notes and at the bottom is my reflection from today.
Can you see it or can you not. Perfect vision. Can you see it.
Some students struggle to learn as learning has been hidden from them. We share the WALT or LI with children. This can be taken even further with technology by making learning an teaching visible. The WHOLE learning journey being visible and the students to be at the heart of learning. By showing;
We should have conversations more openly about where they sit with their learning, e.g. the colour wheel in reading and making it visible to students. They may have a fair idea of the top groups etc already or they may be completely wrong. Be transparent with them.
When everything is on the class site students can access their own learning e.g planning, groups etc. People can deal with anything if there are no surprises.
Hapara gives us visibility of our young people. Now going forward with digital learning ti is essentially a look in their 'desks'. There is also the ability for parents to login to Hapara.
Google Class on air- a webcam in the class to record lessons.
In Manaiakalani teachers are sharing their Teacher as Inquiry for the year.
It further breaks down walls and means colleagues can share their learning.
Blogger makes students learning visible.
The research has shown that being visible has a great result in student achievement.
When schools go digital parents can be locked out of the learning process due to the need of passwords to locate what children are doing and where to click etc. In the past parents could go to school and ask to see workbooks. By making everything visible and not having passwords this removes this barrier.
Using the examples we did a review of the sites for what works and what doesn't which has been great as I am about to set up a site for the School Library. This was very timely for us to look at when this is my goal over the next few weeks.
Having class sites that are a continuation from previous years learning or the future years. Have consistency through the school. It will help the learners.
Have clear and easy to access buttons and links.
Plan your site before you start. Is it for an Ipad, Chromebook etc. Will the little fingers on an Ipad be able to access the little buttons or drop down menu? If it is for Ipads have links that push out to slides.
Think about colours and fonts. Remember you are the role model for children. Try keep the same colour theme and 1-2 fonts throughout.
Putting your timetable on your site. It may be useful to make this in spreadsheeds.
Sites of use for inspiration- Clarelle’s Class site
Belfast Library Site I have worked on today.
Making these two sites has really helped to increase my understanding of Google Sites. It was brilliant to have a chance to get to play around and discover new things. I found I was able to get a lot of work done which will help as I will have less to do in my own time.
I have figured out how I can adapt some areas of a site to best suit my learners. We were shown a lot of class sites from people from this course. I found most of these were aimed at higher ability students so I had to get my head around a site for younger learners. Google Slides is going to be the best way to help my students.
By doing this my students, and their families will be able to access learning and their learning will be made 'rewindable' so they can access it again in the future.
Something to look up-
Sunshine books- Find out if we can get free access to the digital version through Manaiakalani. We have access to 6 free copies of all sunshine titles. This is something I found interesting and I assume we have received the physical books as there are many new Sunshine books in our guided reading collection.
Connecting with Manaiakalani
Visible Teaching and LearningCan you see it or can you not. Perfect vision. Can you see it.
Some students struggle to learn as learning has been hidden from them. We share the WALT or LI with children. This can be taken even further with technology by making learning an teaching visible. The WHOLE learning journey being visible and the students to be at the heart of learning. By showing;- planning
- process
- outcomes
- assessment
We should have conversations more openly about where they sit with their learning, e.g. the colour wheel in reading and making it visible to students. They may have a fair idea of the top groups etc already or they may be completely wrong. Be transparent with them.
When everything is on the class site students can access their own learning e.g planning, groups etc. People can deal with anything if there are no surprises.
Hapara gives us visibility of our young people. Now going forward with digital learning ti is essentially a look in their 'desks'. There is also the ability for parents to login to Hapara.Google Class on air- a webcam in the class to record lessons.
In Manaiakalani teachers are sharing their Teacher as Inquiry for the year.
It further breaks down walls and means colleagues can share their learning.
Blogger makes students learning visible. The research has shown that being visible has a great result in student achievement.
When schools go digital parents can be locked out of the learning process due to the need of passwords to locate what children are doing and where to click etc. In the past parents could go to school and ask to see workbooks. By making everything visible and not having passwords this removes this barrier.
Deep Dive- Evaluating Class Sites
That the site is visually appealing and interesting. You need to think of the audience the site is for. Can you get to everything within 2-3 clicks (User Access).Using the examples we did a review of the sites for what works and what doesn't which has been great as I am about to set up a site for the School Library. This was very timely for us to look at when this is my goal over the next few weeks.
Why Google Sites?
Have clear and easy to access buttons and links.
Plan your site before you start. Is it for an Ipad, Chromebook etc. Will the little fingers on an Ipad be able to access the little buttons or drop down menu? If it is for Ipads have links that push out to slides.
Think about colours and fonts. Remember you are the role model for children. Try keep the same colour theme and 1-2 fonts throughout.
Putting your timetable on your site. It may be useful to make this in spreadsheeds.
Sites of use for inspiration- Clarelle’s Class site
Links from Today
My Google Sites
My Class Site I have worked on today.Belfast Library Site I have worked on today.
Reflection;
Today I have been able to make a Class Site to begin to make Room 4's learning and teaching visible. Today's session was all around being "Visible" and this being a Manaiakalani key principal. I have been able to set up several buttons up using google drawing. I had to play around a little bit to figure out how to add a new page or a new sub page as this did not seem to work for me. I also began to create a school web page for the Library. I hope to launch this site in Term 4 with the Syndicate Inquiry Topics available. This will be a place for students to gather digital resources for Inquiry and for other researching purposes.Making these two sites has really helped to increase my understanding of Google Sites. It was brilliant to have a chance to get to play around and discover new things. I found I was able to get a lot of work done which will help as I will have less to do in my own time.
I have figured out how I can adapt some areas of a site to best suit my learners. We were shown a lot of class sites from people from this course. I found most of these were aimed at higher ability students so I had to get my head around a site for younger learners. Google Slides is going to be the best way to help my students.
By doing this my students, and their families will be able to access learning and their learning will be made 'rewindable' so they can access it again in the future.
Something to look up-
Sunshine books- Find out if we can get free access to the digital version through Manaiakalani. We have access to 6 free copies of all sunshine titles. This is something I found interesting and I assume we have received the physical books as there are many new Sunshine books in our guided reading collection.
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