Day 6 Enabling Access

 Day 6  Enabling Access

WWW

Mote - a voice recording extension that is useful in providing both instructions and feedback to learners.  I have added this extension and will look at it in more detail (and how to embed in sites - using Maria’s blog post).

Connected

Manaiakalani is connected by design and allows for many connections, (with people -cluster, school, and learning -PDL, Toolkits, DFI) through many channels.

RSS and Tuhi mai Tuhi Atu - Look into connections here - MKA Twitter.

Leading Learning Using Google Sites

We all have this digital affordance, but teaching practice is still at the core of accelerating learner progress.

Visible Teaching consists of:

The role of the teacher

Nature of assigned tasks - SAMR

Nature of sites accessed - Rich multimodal opportunities

Learner choice and collaboration - Agency

Five affordances causing accelerated shift:

Engagement

Teaching Conversations

Cognitive Challenge

Scaffolding - rewindable learning and learning opportunities

The 'one stop shop' of a class site is well embedded in the learners I teach, having been part of the Manaiakalani programme for 4 years.  While it changes for them each year depending on their teachers understanding, they are literate with the core functions of a learning site, and the Learn Create Share pedagogy., and they benefit from the consistency of this approach.

While creating and maintaining a learning site can be time consuming it has definitely been paying dividends in my organisation and teaching, more now that ever with the move to At Home Learning. Including a parent portal is my next step with my site, to encourage the communication triangle of school, home, learner and including learning progressions for mathematics and literacy on the site (for both learners and their whanau).

TIP:

When viewing a presented Google slide, deleting everything after 'present' in the omnibox allows you to view in edit mode.

Considerations for a site:

Presentation - Colour palette

Access - No more than 3 clicks

Creative commons - Check Copyright, all imports from Explore tool automatically populates credits

Making buttons on slides - 300 x 300 pixels a good size, download as a PNG.

Critiquing websites and receiving feedback on your own site was a useful task - and I found several ideas/models to bring to my own site that will benefit both myself and my learners.

My feedback received:

Does the site engage the viewer?

Does the site function smoothly for the user?

Does this site reflect visible teaching and learning?

Does this site include multimodal learning opportunities?

What other feedback would you give to the creator of this site?

4	3	3	4
4	4	4	4
5	4	4	4
4	4	4	4

 

My goals from this feedback:

Visibility Functionality

1.Move some info using buttons - too much on pages - export to other pages  2. Visible learning - include T shaped literacy sites I have used and Learning progressions - To do 3. Home button to return to schl site/parent page for communication/updates Include learner photos. Notes: Changes - export some information to new pages leaving button to access - too much scrolling! Rework Math page - clunky Recorded Google Meets - add folder with access restrictions - only St Pats to access Rewindable learning - when using Meets footage do the same - no public access

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Before:

After:

Included learner photos instead of waiting for class photo to include.

Reworked 'shop window' and included buttons

Included button to School Website

Used Colour Picker tool

Added pages to seperate/archive tasks

New title using colour palette resource

Included T Shaped Literacy units on one page