DFI Session 5 Google Sites

Today we had the opportunity to look at examples of sites. We looked at what works well and what does not work so great.

I loved this opportunity to look at examples as I got some lovely ideas for next year ( and even this year). I would like to explore all these possibilities:
- Typing Club
- Pixel Portraits
- Number of the day challenge
- Padlet
- Blogs (photos of kids with link to their blog)
- Kiwi Kids News
- Skoolbo
- Khan Academy
- Whizz
- Teacher Tools
- Studyladder
- Dance Mat Typing
- Teaching Tables
- Scratch
- Sunshine Classis
-Matific

Examples
Slide on Sites

When creating a blog keep the following in mind:
We should have a photo of the teacher and name on the landing page.
Plan your site - Think of your learners, their needs, your theme, how are the students going to access it, why are you using the site. Planning your site with your whole team is very important. (Whiteboard moment).

 Plan forward as to how you will archive or change your site so that the previous terms work is not lost but the latest work is visible first. Think of a colour theme. Avoid unicorn spews (All the colours of the rainbow). Avoid that the header is taking up too much space. 3 CLick rule NB!

We evaluated each others sites and got ideas on how to improve our sites. Mine was pretty weak compared to some of the others, but I got some great ideas for next year. We had some time to work on our sites. This is what our Room 2 site looks like at the moment.

All in all a great session today and it was really good that we had the opportunity to work on our sites and ask questions if we got stuck.