Manaiakalani Kaupapa - Visible

Visible learning - can you see it? Visibility allows family, near and far to be involved in their children's learning. It also means that the students doesn't have to play the game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head'. One of the key ways we can make our learning visible is through our use of sites. The 'new' Google sites is much more user friendly, and can be a great way of creating multimodal learning experiences that learners can navigate in their own time, in their own way.

We were shown some great examples of multimodal learning and then challenged to create our own. The idea of myself as the default in planning was something I hadn't explicitly considered before - it was quite interesting. I had a play with using an image I created in Google Drawings as the base of the learning menu, with various aspects of the image containing hyperlinks to learning experiences. Obviously today was about thinking about the presentation of the learning 'window dressing' rather than the actual content of the activities - you may notice a mismatch between the age level the image is pitched at and the content of the links!

I added a feedback function at the bottom of the page to make the site a bit more interactive. As the new sites doesn't have a comment function, this is a bit of a workaround, but I think could be quite useful and reasonable simple. Click on the image below to visit the 'sandpit site' I was playing with today.

I was reasonably confident using sites coming into today, but it was nice to have some time to play, and to think about the way we design learning to cater for a range of needs, preferences and skill levels. My next step is to play more with coding script, as I really would quite like to push what I can do in that area.