DFI Week 5

Yet another day of full on learning. We had some learning on visible learning and multi modal. Behavioural engagement as well as cognitive. We then went into Google sites and created a new site from scratch. I made mine on Earthquakes as this is what I am focusing on with my class. We learnt about colour picker eye dropper which is pretty cool . And learnt about the sharing settings.

We then went into smaller groups to learn about T shaped literacy. Kerry was very helpful and got us all working away. And more tips on Blogger to finish off our day. I think I will try emailing this post to myself!

Something I learnt in DFI and put into place last week was my class being able to upload their blurb about themselves onto their own blogger. They are not live yet as we are still preparing. But I managed to send out through Hapara a google draw document each and photo of themselves. They changed the shape of photo, added a coloured background and wrote a brief introduction about themselves. It was really a team effort and as I had 7 children away that day it did make it a little easier. Once a couple had the instructions under their belt, I got them to share their new knowledge with a couple more and by the end everyone had completed their blurb. One mistake i learnt from was the google drawing was not saved as a png which it needed to be. So when the children opened the spanner on their Blogger and tried to replace image the file they needed was grayed out. So we changed that and it was all go.

So I am happy it all worked out and hopefully I can report soon on how my classes Bloggers are looking.

Here is the link to the site I made today.
https://sites.google.com/paparore.school.nz/earthquakes/home

Until next week :)
Michelle