DFI- Week 5

It is already week 5 in the DFI program and I feel as though what I did today will be very relevant in my teaching practice. 

The focal point of today was Google Sites. I use Google Sites in my classroom currently and this platform was the gateway for online learning during the lockdown. 
Over the lockdown period, I became a lot more comfortable using Google Sites but there are still lots of areas of development. 
We started by making a sandpit site, pictured below: 

This site will be beneficial when testing out buttons and other tools that I want to use on my Classroom site. 

We then moved into our groups to plan and brainstorm what our new sites would look like. I wanted to create a resource that would support the extension of my higher readers. This site would offer multimodal texts around the theme of Environmental Change and Future Survival. This is a work in progress but I was really happy with the progress that I made in a short period of time. Here is a link to the site along with a screenshot of how it looks so far. 

I will continue to work on this resource and then share it with my team, I am excited that this is a resource my colleagues can use as well.


Highlights:

• Being able to create a resource that a few of my students already needed that is engaging. 
• Working with multimodal texts. 
• Learning about the carousel feature on sites which could be useful for Camp photos and other site sharing. 
• The MultiText document 

To work on:

• I don't really have an 'eye for design'. I need to work on my site and what will make it attractive and appealing to the students visually. This means focusing on what colours will work together and fonts to use.
  
  
  I am looking forward to Week 6 of DFI.