DFI 6 Collaborative sites

Collaborative sites.

Today felt as though I had a some scaffolding to hang onto as we were building on our site knowledge from last week.  Each week until now has been new knowledge for me so to have to time to go over, and refine my skills and consolidate my knowledge on google site was appreciated. The more you delve into google site tools,the more I realise the options available and where I can challenge myself.

I enjoyed looking at other sites and critiquing them today, it gave me a clearer direction of the model  I'd like to achieve, as a visual person this was one of my goals.

 Today  as we worked in small groups  on our site goals,  with  the conversations naturally flowing, with questions and answers coming from all,  I realised everyone was a learner and teacher and I relaxed, which is the best sate to learn in for long term memory. I enjoy this supportive of type of facilitation.

The Manaiakalani pedagogy highlighted this week was CONNECTED, this is so  needed and amplified in our present lockdown.
I was reflecting on the days after the earthquake,10 years ago when our pupils were out of school for 4 weeks, how far we have come. My home landline was the only form of communication to my community and staff I had for weeks. Fast forward a decade, every family is connected to a teacher daily, we zoom and google meet with our staff and learning has continued, in a new format.
Hopefully our connectedness  isn't fast forwarded by event in the next decade, but the power of  being able to network so readily has opened up our world.

I will now go and review our school sites to ensure the visual appeal and site functionality under the below criteria are meet, enabling us to be as connected as possible.