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WK 4: Collaborate: Sites

Wk 4: Collaborating with Sites

Digital technology has significantly enabled the way people can now share with others - anywhere, anytime. Words such as Facebook and Twitter are now a part of young people's vocabulary as they grow up in this digital world. What drives people towards these digital programmes is the ability to be able to share your life, learning and movement with friends, family but also globally with anyone at anytime. 

With these digital developments teachers are now able to provide children with the skills and tools needed to share with more authentic audiences beyond the classroom walls and across the world. This in return makes the aspect of 'sharing' so much more engaging and motivating for students and their learning.

So why Blogger for allowing our young people to share?


Today we began learning about Google Sites and making these Multi Modal. By making a site Multi Model it makes the learning on the site more engaging for our learners.

"You buy with your Eyes"


We then got to have a go at our first site. Here we explored and played around with headers, inserting media, layout and theme. New Google sites allows you to create sites for your learners with ease (much more so than Classic Sites...so I hear). 

Google Sites - Tips and Tricks



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