Hapara - Student dashboard
Great for students above Year 7. - Mobile friendly.
Connected - The default is visible
Visibility is what empowers this connection. We have the connectivity to make 'visible' work.
The ability to Connect through lockdown has been about both the learning connection as well as the physical connection. It's not the same as being in the same room but it is VERY powerful! Talk to students about turning cameras on and practice practice practice having hangouts. ... so they know how and what to do.
Emphasis on Whanaungatanga, Manaakitanga and Rangitamiro.
Network - Connecting us to a powerful network of people. (individual schools coming together to make our students successful - previously students had only come together to compete and now we come together to share and learn and make changes for our tamariki. The learning we have from each other is enormous and the connections are essential. What we also have in common is our shared language.
Manaiakalani Pedagogy Programme Design - a term by term program - purposely structured to focus on Learning in term 1, term 2 create, term 3 share, and term 4 to bring it all together. - It is this way so students and staff all feel comfortable with how we can move together.
You can't pull apart connected and share. - You need both! You need someone to connect with to make sharing something that is worthwhile.
If you want to grow empowered students then we need to grow our connected learners that share. They are Connected, Ubiquitous, Visible and empowered.
"The important thing is living together, making friends and exchanging ideas" - "Te mea nui rawa ia ko te noho tahi, ko te whakawhanaunga, ko te whakawhitiwhiti whakaaro".
Why Google Sites?
Google sites make learning accessible all the time - anyone can pick up and see what is being taught in school. Kids can even learn at home - any reading/resources/videos they are able to take home and continue learning - it's all rewindable.
extend the learning through collaboration - both within the class (student to students) but also between teacher to teacher... - Look at what they are doing and incorporate. It is also a collaboration with our whanau. - Extends beyond the 4 walls of the classroom.
Google accounts right from Year 1 would mean that learning would move through with students. All their learning is also shared into their drive and then is also visible on their blogs. This means that students can log on at home and continue right from year 1. It is my belief that we are moving in the right direction with our digital portfolio's this year, and feedback feedforward from parents supports this too, but we have a long way to still go.
Sites make learning all collaborative.
Today we also looked at our own sites and got feedback/feedforward on these. Here are some points we looked into as we were undergoing this process. At the end of it we came up with goals of what we wanted to achieve/change on our sites.
When thinking of site creation..,,
- THE PURPOSE!
- Who is the learner?
- What is your theme?
- How are they accessing the site?
- Why are they using the site?
- How many pages do you need?
- What will be linked to your home page?
- What is the layout of each page?
- THEME AND DESIGN
- Colour - Pick your main colour and stick with it - No rainbow spew
- Layout - keep it consistent
- Font - keep to a minimum
Ideas for blog
Goal : Investigate parent portal???
Limit the links.
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