So today I was ready to learn about getting connected. It's really important to connect with other schools and teachers. You can learn and share from each other. The students are also able to learn when they connect with other students.
Visible learning gains engagement, teachers conversation, visibility and scaffolding. Visible learning means it can be accessed anywhere and at anytime. It's personalised. My favourite thing is that it is rewindable. Google Sites make this a lot easier.
Then off we went to our digital bubbles and it was about critiquing each other's sites. This was quite daunting but really good to see what other people thought of our hub site. The feedback that I got from this was that our site looked impressive, some said that it was quite hard to follow and others said that there were too many clicks to get into things. So I took that feedback on and I have been thinking about what I can change to cater for this feedback.
Next session was working in our digital bubbles and making changes based on the feedback. I made a copy of our hub site to see if I could make some improvements. I played around and tried to make it less than three clicks for the children to get to their work and also putting the most relevant work at the top of the page. I made links to pages with pictures of the teachers in the hub to make us visible. I also enjoyed playing around with making buttons in drawings.
Vicki, my bubble leader also shared some really good information about YouTube videos when inserting them into slides. She told us that you can go to format options which give you an option to have a start time and an end time on a video. There is also a mute option so they can just watch the video. There is also an option to make it automatically playback when the slide changes.
Overall a great day of learning about getting connected. I am feeling even more confident with sites. Having the time to play around and experiment was very helpful for me. I am looking forward to sharing my learning with my team.
Do you feel confident creating a Google Site?
Kia ora Tracey,
ReplyDeleteI certainly feel confident about creating a site, although there always seems to be something to tweak or a different layout to use.
I really promote the use of slides to put the learning and putting the latest learning on the first slide. This just removes the need to put up a new site page every week.
It is daunting having others look at your site although very powerful. No point making all this content available if the audience does not enjoy interacting with it.
We are looking at creating a feedback form for student to use to give you feedback on their class sites.
Nga mihi,
Mark
Kia Ora Mark,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. Yes, you can definitely play around on sites to make it more pleasing to the eye.
I do like the idea of having the students work for the week on slides and then it's less work creating new pages on a weekly basis.
The feedback was good to have and I enjoyed the challenge of trying to make less clicks to get into certain pages.
I look forward to see this feedback form as I would love to hear what the students think about the site.
Nga Mihi,
Tracey
Kia ora Tracey,
ReplyDeleteLike Mark said, I feel confident creating a site, but there are always things that can be changed and tweaked - I love how easy this is to do! Slides are a great way to minimise the need to add pages to your site all the time. Did you share your site with your hub? What did they think of the changes you made?
Ngā mihi
Vicki
Hi Vicki,
DeleteI am thinking slides might be a good step forward to have all the learning together. Yes, I did share it with my team and they liked the look of it. Who knows what will happen from here !
Thanks for your comment,
Tracey
Kia ora Tracey,
ReplyDeleteWhat a great session you had last week. Making our learning visible is really key to supporting our students and their whānau, and you are correct ... having it rewindable is the turbo-charching bit of the whole thing.
I love that you have taken the feedback you were given by the group and started to think about how you can make changes to your hub site. I am interested to know if you shared your ideas with your team too. What did they think?
Ngaā mihi,
Sharon
Hi Sharon,
DeleteI am really enjoying all this new learning every week. I made a copy of the hub site and had a play around and showed the team. They liked the look of it so who knows where we might go from here!
Thanks ,
Tracey