This week’s discussion was based around being connected. The main part of this I reflected on was before being connected digitally schools were only connected competitively. When thinking about this I had a bit of a wow moment and realized this to be true. Previous connections were through sports, kapa haka and other activities with a competitive nature.
To connect we need to be present and put ourselves out there, also empower others to be able to connect with us. If we are connecting with people outside of our circle then we are teaching and learning new ideas and ways of doing things.
My keyboard shortcut for the week is Ctrl K to automatically get a hyperlink, another shortcut I will be using from now on with confidence.
It was a great opportunity today to look through other class/school sites and evaluate them. I am feeling a bit more motivated to work on and focus on the visual features of the site I have created alongside the functionality.
Today I both enjoyed and struggled changing the pictures on the Google Site I have created for a student. I enjoyed finding new and more interesting pictures to capture the students' attention and interest. I struggled to resize the pictures to fit into the appropriate size headers, which was frustrating but I persevered and on attempt number 10 got it. The site I was using to get the pictures, (Pixabay) was great and had a lot of catchy pictures.
I am looking forward to using what I have learnt this week to remember to always include multimodal content in my Google Site as well as in the classroom.
See you next week
YOur site is great, Gina. You are an inspiration to all kaiawhina. I am also inpressed with your resilience - not giving up on and continuing to solve a problem on your site.
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