Visible learning with google sites
As we know, we spend every week day with our students, we spend a huge amount of time with our learners and for our parents, this is a huge chunk of time that they are away from their kids. So naturally, parents are going to not only be interested in what their child does in a day, but they are also emotionally invested in their kids learning, and weather or not their child is happy at school. We all know that a strong parent and school relationship correlates hugley to students achievement and enjoyment at school, so understanding that VISIBLE learning is not just a couple pieces of art on the wall. It understanding how powerful it can really be. We can now easily make our learning visible through the mode of google sites. This allows easy access for parents to check in on what's going on at school in easy breezy beautiful kind of way.
Google slides and multimodal learning
Google sites is such an underrated and underused tool, that I don't think a lot of people realise just how easy, and accessible it is to create a website for free. It can be used to not only share learning with whanau, but it can be used as a teaching tool, or a resource bank as well. Today as part of my learn, create, share, I was able to create a site filled with resources around the theme of Matariki. I worked collaboratively with some other teachers to create this resource that I am really proud of. We wanted to create a multimodal site, meaning we had videos for students to watch. We had books for students to listen too. Poems, songs, and even quizzes. We put together a bank of learning rich tasks that lets students choose their own path of learning. We wanted our children to, like I just have, to also learn, create, and then share.
Google sites is such a fantastic place for all of this to be, as I can share this with colleagues, use it for years to come and also create other unit plans to eventually have a bank of teaching resources that is always and easily accessible.
Click here to check it out !
(its not perfect - still little touch ups here and there to do).
Kia ora Holly!
ReplyDeleteWow, I love your Matariki site! What a great opportunity for learners in your class to have both a window into other's worlds and also for many to have their familiar world's mirrored back to them! Visually, it's so engaging with the layout you've used and I can really see your creative flair coming through. Also, how amazing to have such a wide range of modes of learning on the site, from School Journals, to songs, to Te Ara resources as well. Ka pai tō mahi! Keep up the wonderful learning, I'm enjoying seeing all that you have been busy engaging in. You are certainly making the most of DFI!
Keep up the wonderful sharing!
Amie
Kia Ora Aime.
DeleteI think the multi-modal approach is my fav part about the site. Makes learning so much more enjoyable for learners when they have the little bit more control of choice, and also allows all students to access the content!
Thanks so much for your kind words! :)
Kia ora Holly,
ReplyDeleteit's great to have a class site that whānau can engage with and have a window into your classroom and all the wonderful learning that their tamariki do. Your Matariki site is a great way to pull together all the fabulous resourecs that are available. Good work!
from Cheryl
Thanks Cheryl!
DeleteI cannot wait to work on my class site in the next DFI session. It will be such a cool way for parents to engage in what were doing in class. It will take a few lessons to get my kids making quality blogs, but once they get going it going to be so awesome to see!
Kia ora Holly, what a great site you and your group created. I like the resources your have included in your site too. You are so right about parents wanting to know about what their children are learning and sites will provide a platform for them to access their learning activities and also find ways they can help. Tomorrow we will spend some time on our own class sites. It will be a great day again. See you then. Amy
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