Time to Improve

Connected - visible is the default

Having learning that is digitally connected is a way of empowering ourselves and our learners.  I had not known that so many schools were connected through Manaiakalani and the outreach. This means there is so much more potential for power and efficiency.

It is difficult to untangle connected and share - to make a connection both parties need to share.  Manaiakalani focus on 1:1 devices as trying to do both 1:1 and analogue means juggling between two different types of teaching - we are time poor enough without this.  It is very hard to switch all the time between online and analogue learning.

RSS - Real Simple Syndication gathers stuff online together.  In this case it gathers all the blog posts together with most recent one first.  It is a great way to connect for learners and to get ideas from other teachers

I need to look at  the slides about how to build an audience.  By having a wider audience the students will get more feedback.

Currents is live a new version of G+

Leading Learning using Google Sites

My students do access learning from the class site.  It may not be perfect but it works for me and my class.  My site has too many clicks and I will look to remedy this.

I enjoyed looking through different sites to see what I like and didn't like.  It is great to see that all the sites were so different.  Not being an 'arty' person I find it really difficult (read pointless) to spend hours making my site look pretty, too me many sites look overcrowded and busy.

I found this slide very informative.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TIME!  I really appreciated the feedback about my site and the time to try to improve it.  This has been very valuable.  Here is my site so far - there is still work to do on it.  Some of the feedback I was given (that I haven't address yet) is adding audio for instructions.  This is something I will look at in future.

My site

Hāpara Hot Tip

Student dashboard, found at mystudentdashboard.com, gives the students an overview of stuff shared via Hāpara workspaces  I have never really used student dashboard or workspaces maybe yet another thing to check out! My initial thoughts are it looks more important for secondary.

Removing spam from blogs 

When talking about removing spam we are talking about comments generated by AI - automated spam.

If you think you have a spam comment go into the editing section of the blog 

then click on comments, 

then click on all to see what comments are published,  

it you see spam mark it as spam, 

go to spam and delete it from there

If you just delete it then the spammers know it is a live account and will keep hitting that account with spam.

Hāpara is your friend when talking about blogging, comments will stand out in red if they have not come through the school 

Watch for blog comments that look genuine that may be spam try not to confuse them with genuine comments

If things get really bad then you can turn on moderation for older posts.

Don't go to delete - mark it as spam, send it to spam, think about it while it is not on the kids site, then you have option of deleting spam or reinstating it.

Once again a very valuable learning time. I keep picking up new tips and tricks each week. The thing I appreciated most this week was the time to fix up my site. Thanks.