Day 5: Enabling Access Sites

Today was a wonderful day for learning something new. It was great to receive feedback on my class site from colleagues within the group. There was some constructive feedback on the site which in the long term I will implement next year. Today was good to implement some short term goals around ways I could improve it for my learners. It was great to have the time to fine tune aspects of the site. I have now got a home button link for every page created, so the students don't need to click the back arrow on the page. I have also learnt how to fix the my colleague's photo so it isn't so zoomed up and elongated. One thing I will sort out is ensuring the permissions are set for anyone with the link for the Writing and Maori Pages.

Next year, I will try and create buttons that have more of the children's image on. This year the theme is around Super Heroes and so I made it look like a comic. I used the Pop Art theme of the Roy Lichtenstein dots as a background to create the buttons.

This afternoon I learnt about creating buttons. It was good to have a refresher on this and to use the mask tool to create my buttons. To ensure buttons are consistent it is good to know that if I copied and pasted my original button over, then I can just replace the image and change the text each time. Another little gem I have taken away is the importance of shift, when resizing lettering.

I also enjoyed learning about creating headers. These could be used next year for my pages. Another thing I learnt was that it is critical to have less colours on my site and have a white back ground, as it makes the page look much cleaner and professional for the students.

There is so much to takeaway from today's session that I am looking forward to meeting up with George after the Christmas break and plan our site together. It will also be good to get the students to do a screen recording around the navigation of the site.