The Creation of a Class Site to Enable Ubiquitous, Empowered, Visible, Learning and Connected

Enough of my own excuses of being swamped down by the busyness of classroom life and thanks to the motivation and push from last weeks Manaikalani Digital Fluency Intensive session.... it was time to pull my head out of the sand and finish creating the class site that I had great plans for at the start of the year.
Although not pages of the site a finished, it is up and away.

And here it is...

https://sites.google.com/tamakiprimary.school.nz/jgrm3/kia-kaha-2018

The opportunity for learning to be Ubiquitous, Empowered, Visible and Connected strikes such a strong cord. I love that I am developing the skills to be able to make this happen digitally. Thank you Manaiakalani!

Thoughts while creating it

• A functional portal for students to access learning opportunities related to inquiry topics, and resources used in class.
• Stepping away from ability groups to mixed ability groups for reading meant removing slide decks for individual ability groupings and replacing it with a slide deck with learning experiences and resources for multiple entry levels and different learning needs. 
• Making it visually appealing (a vast improvement of my make-do links randomly placed on a blank sheet) 

Feedback from parents has been that it will be good for their children to access learning taking place at school when homesick.
They were also excited about the opportunity to see what their children are learning about at school. 


This week I'm going to step up my class blog, connecting our blog to our class site, and getting the children to take ownership. Also connecting our site to the school site for students at home.