Manuia le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa! 😄
Today's DFI session focussed on visibility. Dorothy spoke on the importance of making our planning, the learning process and outcomes, and assessment visible to learners, whānau and other educators. Visibility for learners is important so that they can access their learning, feedback and feedforward. Visibility for whānau is important so that they are aware of what is going on in their child's school life and can be involved in the learning. Visibility for our colleagues is important so that we can share our knowledge, ideas and any resources we have made and/or found - teaching is a collaborative profession, after all. For me, some areas of learning and teaching are already visible on my class site but I am not yet consistently doing this in all subject areas. This is a work on for me.
We also looked at the ideas of multi-modal and multi-textual. This was quite timely for me as we are currently working to implement T-shape literacy into our reading programme at my school, which is based around these exact ideas. Through personalising learning and providing more options and choice for our students we can capture their engagement and hook them into the learning. Working in a junior classroom, I am finding it a bit difficult to find multiple texts that address the themes, concepts and issues we are looking at in class so I am still working on developing my T-shape literacy programme at a level that my students can access.
Next up, we took a 'deep dive' into Google Sites. We explored creating a multi-modal site using tips Jeremy shared around creating a site, inserting banner images and adding content to a page. Having attended the Ako Hiko orientation day at the beginning of 2020, where we focussed on building our class sites, I feel quite confident in using Google Sites but I do like the idea of creating multi-modal sites that are seperate from our class site. Using a seperate site may be an easier way of setting up and using T-shaped literacy in my classroom.
Unfortunately, I had to leave today's session early so I don't have a 'create' element to share this week but I'm looking forward to next week where we will continue to explore Google Sites and enabling access through this platform.
Until then, happy blogging (and long weekend)! 😊
Talofa Mikey. Yes, visibility is so important and your site was a great example of making the learning visible for students and whānau during distance learning. Have a great long weekend!
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