Leading learning using Google Sites - Vicki
Five affordances causing accelerate shift
- engagement
- teaching conversations
- cognitive challenge
- visibility
- scaffolding
Why are we creating a site?
- one stop shop to access all the learning
- able to learn anywhere, anytime, any place
- rewindable learning - go back and revisit the learning - can continuously add to it.
- personalise content
- visible teaching and planning
- one place for all the information - learning, reminders eg togs etc
- consistency - for all year groups
Visual appeal and functionality
- pick a theme eg pick a colour and use those shades or complementary colours
- layout consistent - plan your content before you plan your pages
- 2 x heading font and main text font
- learning no more than 3 clicks away
- check that content is visible - you can check on a incognito window
- links to class blog and student blogs
Evaluating Class Sites
What works well - Visual appearance
- hooking people in - visual engagement
- visual experience - can you find the stuff you need.
- complimenting colours
- clear site fonts/buttons
What dosen't work well - Visual appearance
- too much colour
- too cluttered
- white writing on a light background
What works well - User experience
- able to be easily accessed by learners and whanau
- a few clicks to where the learning is
What dosen't work well - User experience
What is the first thing we are looking at?
- Banger needs to be visually appealing and user friendly
- Have a good site plan before you start
- make them personal to your class
- use photos of the students
- use free picture site eg pixabay
- put in what size you want in draw - eg banner in cm will be different than buttons in cm
- download draw image with 'png'
- once a button has been done - a set template eg circle, size etc then you can go to replace image and it keeps the same dimensions.
- you can replace the shape keeping the same format - eg change circle to triangle
- use 'color pick eye color' to help with colour combinations.
Icons
- The following links are for icons that will not pixelate when enlarged.
- Awesome icons
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