Digital Fluency Intensive Day 5 - Enabling Access

I live and breathe in Google Sites every working day in my role as a facilitator with the Manaiakalani Programme Outreach. I have access to all the sites of the classes I work in and add a Cybersmart page to the class site for visible and rewindable learning. So whilst I work on pages on many sites I did find today an opportunity to go back to some of the pages and check visibility and how accessible the Cybersmart learning is.

Everytime I explore examples of sites I find more and more gems to model and show the teachers I work with. I am particularly interested in Junior sites where they have 1:1 iPads. I found Kashmira  Lal's 2018 site today which is a treasure. Seeing a whole year's layout was good in that your can see how she has archived each term's work to de-clutter the pages. She really did stick to the "no more than 2 clicks" rule.

Today we were able to enjoy and appreciate the generosity and sharing of our Manaiakalani whānau as we explored and gleaned ideas from the many sites available. Thank you to you all for this sharing and caring mahi that is part of the Manaiakalani kaupapa.

I use a set of slides to teach from and add to the slides as we move through the term. I have slides for Year 7 &8, another slide deck for year 4-6 and one slide deck for the younger year 2-3 class.
Here is the year 4-6 slides...
I find that by having instructional material in a slide deck, I add to the slides as I plan lessons and knowing it is embedded in each Cybersmart page, I don't have to embed different sets of slides again and again and again. There were so many examples today from other well-established Manaiakalani sites of how teachers can work smarter not harder by having their planning on slides that fulfil both planning and visible learning aspects. I know as a leader in a school I would be happy to see this type of planning as the interface for learners, parents and whānau.

I had an experience this week of wanting to view a school site. Our grandson has just changed schools because they moved recently. He told me the other day, thanks to the power of Skype, who his new teacher is and the class number se is on. So off I went to the school site to get the gen on the new school, class and teacher. This is what I got to when I clicked on his syndicate's name in the menu...

Sigh! 

& enuf said enabling access