Thursday, 1 August 2019

Pimp My Site

WHY: 
Learning how to create a site to lead learning.
Time to improve my site.
Sharing your good practice.

After exploring sites, I came up with a PMI:



At the moment, the things I am addressing on my own site are:

  • students turning in work so I can access it easily
  • planning - at the moment I am planning on paper (I was doing it on a google slide but found it difficult to show differentiation. The template I created was not good enough. I also found it difficult to put anecdotal notes on whilst teaching - I had post-it notes everywhere!)), planning for the students to see on my class site (they don't need to see everything) and writing it up in modelling books. It's too much and too time consuming.
  • showing Maths on my site - I run workshops as well as have 'groups' for tasks/games. I can't work out how to put it all on my site and not have multiple clicks for the students to be where they need to be (2 clicks is my self-imposed limit).
Scrolling through other people's sites has answered some of these questions. I need more help with planning on a google sheet, hiding tabs for students (but not me) on that planning so it can go directly onto my site, creating a turn in sheet for the year. I know we covered that last one in DFI but I can't remember how to do it and the rewindable slides no longer make sense. Maybe they will when I'm feeling more 'refreshed'!

As always, Cheryl Torrie, Herman Fourie & Amie Williams were very patient and full of great advice. They all said to just concentrate on one thing and do that. The trouble is I don't want to crawl, I want to fly (now!).

Note to self: a tip from Herman - check out Tall Tweets (select presentation...) 




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