DFI

 DFI Day Six: Enabling Access

Connect 

I have never heard of Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu before, but this is but this is definitely something I would like to look at for next year. I am always looking for different ways for students to connect with others and share their work in authentic contexts, and I feel this is a really great way to achieve that. 

Google Sites

This is something completely new to me, but I am very excited to be moving towards this. I spent the day today setting up a google site ready for next year, it feels nice to get a little head start on this. It was very helpful to be have some time to explore other class sites, get a feel for efficent layouts, what I liked or didn't like as much. As a school we have decided to keep some consistency around the general way each of our class sites look and work, so that students can move between classes and not have to relearn a whole new layout; I was pleasantly surprised to find that even though the general layout and some visual features were prescribed, there are still a number of ways it can be individualised and related to our own classrooms, the same yet different. 

Today while setting up my class site I was able to create a page for each of our subjects, and create buttons for each subject on the homepage. The buttons match the design of our labels for our daily timetable in class; I liked the idea of keeping that consistent. I plan on doing the same thing with the buttons and in class labels for each group/workshop, when I get to it. As the site is for next year and it just has it’s bare bones at the moment I haven’t published it, so here is a screenshot of it’s homepage. 

Here were my goals for today, most of which I achieved. I just need to create the buttons for the last 3 subjects and link them up with their pages. I am really enjoying using Google Draw with the replace image button, it has saved me so much time