Enabling Access - Sites
Visible teaching and learning - can we see it, can anyone see it?
Often success is based on reading the mind of the teacher - I have found this especially in Music theory and Maths.
If learning is to be visible then what needs to be private? Some schools don't want students names on their sites. I have learnt that I need to have separate folders which are able to be viewed by anyone with the link so that my documents are visible if they are on the site. I have started to include an admin folder within my curriculum folders for my assessment schedules, tasks, etc.
Sites is a place for the whole learning journey. I think this is easier for Curriculum areas that do more structured learning. In music we are doing a lot of practical work and this is hard to show on the site. I am loathe to put up videos. However the students can share any videos on their own blog.
Have the work accessible, available and put it on in advance. There should be no surprises. Need to make sure that there are no barriers. When my site was shown to the class today there were documents that were needing to request access which isn't great. I have now fixed that problem
Google Class on Air the ultimate visibility in teaching and learning - I'm not sure I would be brave enough to do this but will have a look at the examples
Try to teach the students to not resolve the comments on docs so that the feedback is shown. This is a great thing to try and teach students - I have already had students in my Maths class resolving comments that I had put on their work and Learning Journals. I think this will be quite difficult because I know it is good to see a clean page.
Use png/jpeg image on drawing to create buttons. I have been trying to do this and have found that the text comes out a little fuzzy and that I need to be careful about how images are embedded so that I can add links to the other pages.
I have decided that I have a lot to do on my site and it will take a fair amount of time.
Some feedback that I got today about my site.
