My whole journey for today was my Class Learning Site. I started thinking about it before today's session even started, so we had only really just started the day and I was in the mindset that I wanted to begin constructing my class site from scratch. It was such new learning for me at the beginning of this year hence the fact that my ideas, knowledge and pedagogy surrounding the use of a class site has changed.
I have really enjoyed the exposure to all the thinking on:
- visible teaching and learning
- rewindable learning
- multimodal content
- ubiquitous access to learning, i.e. could the child learn by self
- connected (blog links, other sites)
- opportunities for learners to be creative
We spent some time today looking at different sites to share some ideas with us. I had been looking at some examples and knew what I wanted my site to look like. It just seemed like the perfect time to start my site again. Here is a quick image of my old site compared to my new site. It will be a work in progress of course but I think I can quickly set up the Writing and Maths pages ready to use.
I want to incorporate buttons for those learners who find these easier to access. I want to ensure the learning is visible and it is rewindable. Thanks to Cara, who is in the DFI course with me, I saw an excellent model of how I want my class site to look and operate. To me it seemed clear and easy to follow for teaching and learning. I will be very interested to get my students' opinions on the new site compared to the old site.
Kia ora Michelle,
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to hearing about the feedback from your students after your launch.
I appreciate how reflective you are and can see that the discussions we have as part of your in class support and the learning from the DFI that your digital fluency is progressing at an accelerated rate. For a someone with a real skill in teaching the digital aspect with really amplify this great practice.
Nga mihi,
Mark