DFI week 6 Enabling Access 17.11.21

 This week saw us delving into enabling access within our digital spaces. Dorothy focussed in on connecting via the Manaiakalani lense. I certainly identified with the challenges of networking even within the local geographical area. We have been trying to foster connections between the 5 Catholic schools on the West Coast this year. With the sheer volume of existing meetings we have found it difficult. Perhaps using digital connections with video meeting could be a way to achieve this connection more easily.

A further point was made regarding support structures. Within my current reality, we have a shared Board of Trustees with our neighboring high school which is interesting. To save time I suggested circulating an agenda with all documents hyperlinked. All BOT members were able to read approve, comment or decline. The actual face to face google meet lasted less than an hour. This was well received by members and is something we will use in the future. It certainly saved time.

In terms of my workflow and capability today was wonderful. Spending time developing my site really enabled me to focus in and gain confidence and enhance my skills- more on that later,,,,

My learners and teachers will be able to access my site with a few more tweaks. I was pleased to be able to continue to develop this today as it links well with our PB4L journey. We set self goals around the site development today and I was able to achieve two of mine within the given time:

Overall goal: Update Friendships site made last week and further integrate to PB4L and possibly sports

1.  Add friendship content- multimodal

2.  Add PB4l content

Here is the link to my developing website which has moved on since last weeks post:

Friendships

On reflection, I can see that I will need to separate it a little more effectively with regard to the friendships and positive behaviour guides as it is not well defined for each area. In terms of workflow, I will be asking my student leaders/ staff to develop the content for the positive behaviour guides as we are all developing them currently. I can see that there is an opportunity for a variety of mediums including video, text and photo for example.