Collaborate-Sites

AGENDA

Visible Kaupapa

We started off our day with a great idea from Maria...A Grateful Chain! I really enjoyed listening to what everyone had to say. Lovely way to start the day :)

I really enjoyed today as it was about Sites and I have been wanting to explore this tool more and was feeling frustrated with how to layout things. I really enjoyed the second part of the day when I worked alongside Janine, Julia and Sarah with Chebs to create a 'Reading' slide and a Site. I have been wanting to try and do my reading planning more on slides so I felt like this was really worthwhile.

Dorothy talking about making things visible for our tamariki and whanau. I enjoyed listening to what she had to say as it all makes so much sense. We need to make sure the learning is visible for all to see so there are no surprises. I can't wait to have our site up and running more so the whanau can see what their tamariki will be learning etc and also so there are no surprises for anyone.

* Dorothy mentioned the 'Parent Portal' on Hapara. I didn't even know about this. To be honest I had never heard of Hapara until I arrived at Awapuni this year. I need to so some learning around this amazing site.

Multi Modal

Kerry made so many great points about how to make your sites engaging, we need to get our tamariki and whanau hooked. She shared a great video around 'Shop Window'-I need to think of our site etc like a shop window! *Slide 20 has some good examples

GOOGLE SITES

I really enjoyed creating my own sites (2) today as we had created one as a team awhile ago but it was great to have a go at it again on my own. While working with Chebs I asked about the layout-LAYOUT is exactly it, the different options make everything on your slide sit nicely. 

Multi Text Database

Main text, complementary text, scaffolding and challenging text. I love this idea-it makes me think why I haven't thought about this or been exposed to it sooner. It is so great for learners, we should be giving them the option to try more challenging things. A good way to think of each text type is like a 'Running Record' level. 

While creating our Reading Slide today I learnt about the website Epic Reading and Wonderpolis.

*Towards the end of our session with Chebs we did a few settings things around 'publishing' etc. I feel like I need to go over this again. 

My Site

Here is my collaborative Reading Slide

 

YAY! I embedded my slide myself...I am starting to think it is different with Google Forms??

Google Sites for Remote Learning

Amy shared this today

*My grid didn't work for me today on Google Hangout like it did last week. Not sure why
*Still haven't worked out how to get the macrons on for maori kupu (not sure how to do it on an hp)

Bit brief today...my daughter wants me to play-so off I must go!

Update:
Buttons, Buttons, Buttons...I created some!