Digital Fluency - Week Rima

A short screencastify of some of my mahi today (no sound)

I like the learning today that our class sites are like a store-front. I've got to advertise to my students, they need to be enticed by the window display to want to step into the learning. If I'm the same, why would they be any different?

That being said, I am now on a mission to make my site as appealing and intuitive as possible. Next steps - get some student feedback, set aside some site building time once a week, think of it as a creative outlet for myself!

I didn't realise that google sites can be configured into all sorts of layouts - I had thught it was somewhat limited and generic. I have picked up some awesome ideas from the high school examples, which I look forward to using in my own site.
I already knew what a time suck playing around on the site can be and I need to be careful to set a timer when I am working on it!

I feel that time spent adding to the site, however, is a meaningful and powerful part of my teaching practice. There is no double dipping, what I share on there is available to the students rather than creating separate documents that I then translate into kids speak and share with the class. I love the rewindable nature of sites, it encourages our students to jump on and catch up on what they missed. Love it.

Bit of a ramble here today, but long story short, I am seeing more of the value of sites and am inspired to improve mine even more.