COLLABORATE- SITES : DFI Week 5

REFLECTION 

It was once again so lovely to connect with others around our beautiful country and to be able to use our knowledge. I to believe that visibility is important and being transparent is the best way to go as it allows students, whanau and other colleagues to share and learn from each other. I enjoyed our create session today and was able to create a site about ANZAC day (check it out here)which I will be using with my tamariki during our first week back. I used the multitextual data base as well as resources sourced within our group to create activities for students to complete. I feel like it will be engaging to them as the resources used are multimodal and offer different ways for the students to learn. I am excited to present this lesson to the students and know that it will cater to all of their learning abilities as well as extending those who need it. Working in small groups for the afternoon was nice as it gave us all a chance to share and discuss what was going on, I also found it very beneficial having the slides in the google meet. Taking part in this DFI is helping me to feel confident heading into online teaching. Well done team on another awesome DFI session.  

Visible Kaupapa: Dorothy Burt

It is important to have transparency in your teaching. It should be visible for your students, colleagues and whanau. There shouldn't be any surprises, being visible will also allow for opportunity and allows you to be seen. You are able to provide timely feedback and feed forward which is relevant, students are also able to do this for their peers. 

Multi Modal: Kerry 

Slides
Engaging students cognitively, personalising learning and accelerating and empowering students in their learning journey. Your site should be like a shop window and be inviting and intriguing, it should invite you in. Behavioural engagement: personalising. Creating to learn: allows students to use their own voice.  Using a range of different modes of technology to hook the learner in, having all links in one spot and accessible for all to use. 

Explore time: 

We were given the opportunity to explore different sites, I found this very interesting and was able to find some new ideas on how I can better present and manage our online classroom. I particularly liked the idea of using a google form for students to hand in completed work, this is something that I have been struggling with (collecting in work) and have been trying to find a more effecient way to do this. Very grateful for the visibility of everyones sites. 

Google Sites: Gerhard V 

Creating Google Sites

Going over using sites and how to set up pages. 

T Shaped Learning 

Multitextual Database  ; this is an amazing document that provides a range of texts that have been shared. 
Multimodal can be photos, videos, charts, graphs etc. Multi modal will present important information and will make students want to read what is there. 
Multitextual: reading multiple texts.