DFI Collaborate Sites

We began our day by completing a gratitude chain, stating something that we were grateful for and acknowledging the person before. I felt that this would be a great ice breaker starting back with our students online.

Next we looked at visible Kaupapa:-
visible being a clear crisp vision - of our students learning both for students, whanau at home and teaching colleagues. Learning requires to be rewindable and students need to be able to access their learning and next steps in a way that doesn't require them to read their teachers mind. This was once again backed up by experts (in this case, John Hattie) that if students know the learning process, have genuine access and are the centre of their learning they are much more successful.

We looked at the first part of multi text and multi modal delivery where the student is able to self scaffold and become engaged in their learning in an exciting format using a range of texts and modals that would appeal to their style of learning.

Making a site was a main focus of the day, I liked how buttons can now be made on the site without having to make in google draw first, especially if you want to get a site up and running quickly. The personal touch can always be added at a later date.

We the split into small groups to make our own multi text / multi modal site. our group used jamboard that was new to me, to arrange our thoughts and ideas. I feel this could be a great way of brainstorming with my younger students and they would love changing the colour of the post it notes to show who had added the note.

Finally we made our own multi text / multi modal site. My group were working on the text Clever Little Dinosaur and using a frame work we had to develop knowledge and ideas around dinosaurs. Here is my end result (still needs some tweaking).

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