Enabling Access to Sites

Having missed last weeks session I was playing catch up with the sites portion of the DFI sessions. I started my Hubs learning site at the beginning of the year and had kept it pretty basic with link to our seesaw blog, intoducing the teachers and putting in the newsletter and then along came the lockdown. This fastforwarded the content on the site as it became our primary way of sharing the learning with students and whanau. After today's session I can design and add buttons, link learning from the home page to the other links in the site and it is now a lot more user friendly for students and whanau. I will need to get some student feedback as to the improvements and then move from there. Looking at the websites of other classrooms/hubs and critiquing  was very helpful and inspiring, everyone happy to share their learning journey without being 'precious' about where they are at. This type of P.D to learn from the 'experts' as well as others on the course over a term is something I have only experienced a handful of times in my long teaching career. Most courses are one and done or you have to take a years leave/ attend night courses over a long period of time. To have the time to learn, consoldiate that learning and then reflect has been personally invaluable. Hey isn't that Learn, Create, Share? 

I am pretty proud of what I have been able to achieve in the time given to change things around and am looking forward to sharing with the students 'the new look' front page. Their feedback will guide next steps. Finally sorted out drawing and how to elimante the edges of pictures so the final result is a cleaner look. 

Moving forward, I will include real time learning rather than just having rewindable learning, which is what most content is at present. Looking at how other teachers present their visible learning will provide with best practice, but looking forward to having a play.