DFI Day 6 Reflection

This is what I have been working on

REaL Toolkit

This site is the development of three ideas.


  1. Back in 2017 when we first set up the school web site I created a page that I intended to house inspiring resources for Rāwhiti teachers. I dumped a whole bunch of my favourites onto a page but I never got back to sort this out into a usable format. Being part of the DFI has given me the time to come back to this page and plan out how it can be useful for teachers. 
  2. The second purpose of this page is inspired by the manaiakalani philosophy of making learning visible and rewindable. I have been thinking that while our teachers are learning to create sites that make learning for their children visible and rewindable we don't always make it that easy for teachers to rewind the PD that we present in staff meetings or make other resources easy to locate. This is my attempt to start an accessible archive of teacher related resources and PD materials. 
  3. We often send out emails with links to administration documents or forms we want people to fill in. We have an administration manual which has hyperlinks to all sorts of documents and I don't want to recreate that as a site but there are some things in there that are not so easily accessible and they should be. 
I'm hoping that other teachers will share the ownership of this site so that it can grow into a site that is useful for them. 


Key learning: 

You can't connect if you won't share.

To Follow Up:
 
T shaped literacy
Twitter feed to site? - Get recommendations from staff
Newsletter as a site?
Google alerts
How to provide feedback on sites?
Consistent design for learning sites to promote accessibility.
Tour of class site video is a great idea

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