Today we were back down in Ohaewai with our DFI cohort.
Dorothy joined us from Pt England in Tamaki. Today she was going over "visible" how are our floor boards so to speak. Is it visible or is it not? Can you see it, or can you not. Who is it visible to, basically everyone. Too much of a child's learning is hidden and this could ad to our children failing. Every learner needs to be able to see their learning journey. How do we make it visible? Through our google sites which are evoloving more and more. We also have Hapara so as a teacher we have the opportunity to see their learning immediately online also. She left us with a plea saying there could be barriers for our learners and their whanau that we have unintentially created for them. Open the curtains so to speak, and let them in to see their learning journey.
Next Kerry followed on from Dorothy with Multi Modal, Engaging "The Hook", Learning, Empowering and Multi-Modal UDL. With our class sites we hope that we can make it easy and accessible for our students. We want to create life long learners that are excited and actively engaged in their learning. We want an easy to use site that grabs the audiences attentiion. We will be exploring the 2 designs today, Multimodal design for behavioral engagement and Multi-textural design for cognitive engagement.
After break Kerry ran through a few Hapara hot tips. I didn't know about the Hapara Share which I think would be something I could utilise with my spelling words. We got to look over what other school sites look like and might I say, some are just fabulous and really drew me in.
Vicki joined us online to chalk and talk us through creating our own sites. This was fast and informative and there's so much you can do to produce an awesome site.
After lunch we looked through the Multi-text Database and then had to create our own using the data that was made available to us. This was a great opportunity to explore. I chose to do mine about One Small Step because I though it linked really well to Stem Learning in our class to do with Rockets. Below is a screenshot and link to my site.
Hi Tina
ReplyDeleteI'm delighted you're getting so much out of our course that you are finding will be applicable with your learners.
You seem to have grasped the idea of multimodal; the front page of your site has a good range of resources all related to your chosen topic. A small recommendation for your site would be to include some instructions. Ideally, our sites speak for themselves in that student's can easily find what they are supposed to do.
I can see your confidence is growing all the time Tina and it's a real pleasure having you with us.
Ngā mihi nui