Week 6 - Google sites

After a wonderful 2 week break, I'm feeling excited to continue my journey in DFI.

This week, we focused on enhancing our Google site.
Some of the key features that need to be considered when creating are site will be explained further. The importance of having a class site is create visibility. Visibility was one of the ideas we discussed about pedagogy and connecting with Manaiakalani. It is important that whanau can see on the site, so they are able to see the sequence of learning. It creates the aspect of shared language as people are connected by visibility and shared language. In the digital world, sharing is so readily available. We are able share with people across the country or the world. We don't need to be face to face.

Google Sites

Children are getting quite familiar with what to expect on the site. As teachers from their previous classes usually have a similar layout.
However there are still very important aspects and ideas that need to be considered when creating a sit. There must be:

A purpose -Think about what your theme is - colour, story → it should be consistent throughout.

Planning - Always layout your site

Theme & Design
Think about colour, layout (not to cluttered, sharing permissions) and font ( Have a consistent font, looks nicer) when creating your site.

The three click rule
When you are working on a site → if it’s more than 3 clicks, children will hardly engage.

Use the google layout as it helps with images and the buttons sit neatly.

For todays task, we had gave feedback on each other blogs by using google forms and used that feedback to make improvement on our site.

Some of the things I worked on were:

Document permissions - allowing access to documents

Site

I also added a link to school site and images of the children and teacher(me). The media album, has pictures of the children only viewable to people in our domain for safety.

I have updated the Reading and Maths page. I have added pictures to the reading slide to make it more appealing to the children and added links on the Maths page and removed the slides to make the page more user friendly.

This session was very valuable as I received peer feedback on my site from other teachers. I was able to use the information obtained and make changes accordingly!