DAY 5- COLLABORATIVE SITES

 Making learning Visible 

The kaupapa of  day 5 was around making teaching and learning visible for not only the students but other teachers, whanau and community members. If teaching and learning can be found, easily accessible, expectations known and work exposed; all this could reduce any frustration of failure. 

Allowing success for everyone, making learning achievable. 

WHAT TOOLS CAN BE USED:

The digital tools presented today were the use of multi modal (sheets), sites, blog labels and the teacher dashboard. Remembering that your classroom site is like a shop window, it needs to be capturing and inviting for users. I continuously reflect on my own classroom site and look at other schools, classrooms and teachers to find ways of creating a site that will capture my learners and keep them engaged. 

Here is the link to my current classroom site. 

I use a range of google forums when creating learning and planning for my students, whanau and community to access. Hoping that it will help to strengthen the home and school learning a little more. 

Multimodal Sites:

Unfortunately with internet/power issues I missed some of today session, however once it came back on I was able to go back into the resources provided and catch myself back up. 

Today we explored other sites that people have created for their classrooms then we got given the task to create our own site, based on a topic of our choice. As we are going to be doing a short unit on Matariki from week 7-week 10 I decided to join the group who focused on a multimodal site around matariki, this I can then link for my students can work their way through during our short inquiry focus.  

Multimodal is an accessible way for all learners to learn, with multi leveled text, a range of leveled text, videos, story recordings and multi leveled questions all make this way of learning accessible, engaging and challenging for all learners.  

This is a site I will be using within my classroom.