DFI Week 5 Blog Post

 Session 5 - Collaborative Sites

Today we learnt about visible learning and teaching. Basically creating some student friendly planning and displaying this on a class site for your students, making it visible, and hopefully this would increase their engagement in what they are learning.

We learnt that the class site should be visible and inviting for the students and the community. "Window dressing" making the class site something they want to be in or a part of. 

We had to create our own multi text database, and then using some of the resources our own multi modal site. I chose to do mine on reading and my topic was Maori Myths and Legends.

This is my class site  below. I hope to use this lesson for next week. I also want to expand on it ad use elements of it in Writing and Maths.

I hope you use what I created today on my site with my students as a new teaching platform. Hopefully something new will engage them and eventually this will become a part of the fabric of my class, incorporating teaching with technology instead of the technology just being a "time-filler" or "follow up task".

We learnt so much about sites, there are so many things i still need to learn but I know have a solid understanding about them and it cleared up a few issues I was having about how to incorporate them into my teaching.

It is also a great tool to have for other times when I need to create a site maybe for next year, or for my bun in the oven and make a site as a digital baby record book. Or albums for my family, it is also something that can never be lost or destroyed, which is really exciting!!