Connected
Digital technology enables us to be connected, within our schools, communities, Aotearoa and globally. Being connected means having the ability to collaborate, share, support each other, and feeds our need, as social beings, for contact.
I thought this was beautifully summed up in this whakatauki:
Te mea nui rawa ia ko te noho tahi, ko te whakawhanaunga, ko te whakawhitiwhiti whakaaro.
The important thing is living together, making friends and exchanging ideas.
Classroom Sites
Today was all about classroom sites. Although I don’t have a classroom or a class site of my own, I was really looking forward to this session and having the opportunity to explore how to set up really effective classroom learning sites, as they are such a great way to make learning visible and easy to access.
Having a collection of exemplar sites to visit and critique with our bubble group was really valuable, as was the opportunity to visit and give feedback about each other’s sites. I have saved a few of my favourite sites in my bookmarks folder to refer to as I continue to design (and redesign) my wee test site.
Kia ora Fiona,
ReplyDeleteI use a test site regularly as a facilitator to demonstrate how to do things such as embedding. I find it especially useful in a secondary setting where I might be working with a large number of teachers and I don’t have edit access to their site.
Maria