Reflection - Week 7 DFI

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Today just reinforced for me that I need to continue to work on becoming digitally fluent and that it won't happen over night. Each week I can see how a 'One Stop Hub' with only 3 clicks will make learning accessible to my students. I had a situation this week where a boy had become upset as he couldn't remember the criteria that had been set for our recount on 'All About Me'. The criteria was on the site but hidden because of the many clicks that had to happen before he found the correct information. This also highlighted the importance of things being rewindable on my class site. Something for me to work and reflect on.

At present I don't think my site is engaging for the learning or their whanau. I need to work on decluttering the site and making sure the work is up to date and appealing. I want my site to be a place where i am connecting with students and their whanau and celebrating the learning that is happening in Room 2!

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Finally mastering how to make those pesky buttons on my home page on my class site. I spent so much time last week trying to make them and all I ended up doing was messing up my site. So I am totally thankful once again to my Bubble coach Amy for working with me one on one today. It really is appreciated!!!

I also gained some knowledge on how to have sub pages with reading groups etc. I have been desperate to find a way to have this on my site after looking at some well established sites today.

I really find it extremely hard sharing my work in the digital bubble because I don't have the confident digitally yet. I get anxious to the point of feeling sick. It probably sounds a little silly saying that especially seeing I am generally pretty confident. I guess this is good to reflect on as I am pretty sure there will be times my students feel the same during their learning journey.

Again Amy just showed a simple thing like having your folder with the share permissions open. I have often created something on the site and thought the kids could see it and unfortunately they didn't have access and that has been an issue when I've been out of my class.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners, how could they use?

I think I might get photos of the kids and their artwork onto our site to make it more personalised and create some cool photo buttons.  - Didn't get a chance to do this so I intend to the photos tomorrow so I can get creative.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Getting my reading and writing pages sorted on my site this week will definitely decrease the time I spend in the weekend mucking things up. I can waste a lot of time trying to do things on my site but never ever make it any better. I feel I have gained a little confidence from working with Amy today.

Below is a screen shot of my home page for my site. I think having a class photo as the banner will look better. I am just stoked to have those buttons finally on the home page. I may add more but just wanted to keep it simple for now so I don't become overwhelmed.