Engaging Students in Writing

Session 8 - Jacobs session - engaging students in writing

Jacobs session was really interesting.  I went along to support him in his presentation but found that he had lots of innovated cool ideas and tools linked to his presentation and planning.  However many attendees were more focused on creating a site rather than thinking about the content that was embeded in it.  Made some great connections with other teachers and one in particular who taught in a year 2 classroom in Sydney.  Hoping that we can connect our kids up when we go back to school.

She loved looking at our Team Maunga site as it was a bit more Junior focused rather than intermediate focused.

4 Tips for creating websites

3 clicks max

Use white space

Less is more

Be consistent

As with all site creation ... you must PLAN IT FIRST. Plan what you want it to look like, what pages you want and what you want on each page (keeping in mind the 4 tips mentioned above). This will help keep your site simple to navigate and user friendly.

Other things to pear in mind...

1080 standard size of header/page