DFI Part 3

CREATE!!! One of my favourite things is to create. I know that I like some free rein on create to explore how I like to do things. Therefore this is one of my favourite things to implement into the classroom. It is awesome to hear that I am on the right track with creating within the class. In my first year of teaching (only 2yrs ago) I did a lot of creating with the students, I didn't know if I was on the right track, but students were engaged and produced some great work. I feel that I have gone backwards with this and now I'm excited to get into 'creating the spark' again. There are several things that I have taken out of the session today - I'm going to engage student's interests by getting them to blog them at home (or school) more often. I have a particular child that this could be rather useful in building his self-confidence. He's quite talented in music and this could be great for him.

Creating and putting into practice multimodal learning sites

I have downloaded a few things lately that have automatically asked me to make a copy and now I'm quite stoked to find out how to do that myself here's how: at the end of the bar remove the present or edit and change it to /copy then the students are forced to make a copy. Woohoo.

I really enjoy being creative in presenting information so today was useful to reignite my interest. Using multimodal texts is something I quite like making so I'm quite glad I have had the time today to create a site as well as adjust my current learning site. Previously I have using TES blendspace and have embedded this on my learning site as this incorporates different modes. I found it quite useful changing a drawing to pixels and then resizing it. Adding drawings to sites is getting a lot easier as is the look and adjustability of sites. I have suggested to a few students in my class that they could create a learning site for themselves and I would like to try this with the whole class as learning portfolios. This may be a longer term goal (i.e. start of next year). It would be nice now to have some time to put these ideas into practice and solidify them.