DFI Session 5 Thursday 4th June 2020

It was a great session today, despite my brain felt a little overloaded this week. It was great to learn more and explore google sites and learn about visibility and creating folders for access and sharing. I love the idea of collaboration and visibility and having all of the learning community involved and having access to the students learning. It makes learning so much more authentic with a real audience and you tend to put more effort into it when you know someone is going to read it. In terms of Google sites, I think I'm going to try and change the layout of my class site to make it more consistent and clean across all the pages. Also, I'll set up my pages with hooks and images to engage my students into their learning and take into consideration the Multi-Modal designs when doing this. Hopefully, when this is set up I'll feel more organised on my site and I can get a routine going of regularly updating it.

Some main points from today 

Collaboration - Visibility 

• Hapara has parent visibility to their student drives 
• Communicating with a real audience and purpose in mind 
• Technology is a game-changer so that teaching and learning is visible

Multi-Modal

• Keeping the site up to date 
• Making it attractive and engaging (like a shop window) 
• Hooking students in 
• Videos of yourself on the sites are engaging for students
• All resources in class site helps (all in one place) 
• Multi-modal design for behavioural engagement 
• Multi-textural design for cognitive engagement
• Using recognisable images to engage students
• Reduce text-heavy style sites

Dashboard/Hapara and Blogger 

• Visibility to blogger 
• Hovering over allows you to see a preview 
• The comments section is showing the comments on student' blog 
• Red comments = anonymous user 

Google Sites 
Google Sites Environment Day Design 

• You can create folders for your site - you can share permissions for this folder (Visible) 
• Using google drawing/post-it notes to plan your site for pages and subpages 
• You can choose templates/Themes 
• You can create new pages and sub pages 

Design a website - 13-15 Years

• Design a site
• Smart Media 
• Tki - range of resources to reuse - journals + Audio 
• Looking at information is it real or fake? 
• Digo extension for highlighting in websites 
• Context Tasks - How do we know information is valid? 
• Do we take everything as true?

Blogger

• In layout - Configure blog post you can add a "reaction" to click on as a response to a comment