DFI - Reflection 5 - Collaborate Sites

I made something useful today-much to the frustration to the poor people around me. Thanks for the help everyone! May have to sit on my own next time.....😂
Today I made a Google Site. This will be a site to have bookmarked in the classroom to help my juniors navigate the websites we use during Reading Time. It becomes very time consuming to repetitively show the children how to get to sites such as Stepsweb and Epic books. Now the Site I created will be a homepage for the children to gain direct access to their login page without having to input a password - Hallelujah! Hopefully Helen likes this idea, if not tough, it's happening!

Things to think about when creating a site:

• Make a folder that is shared. This is where the site sits along with all the add-ons so that they are all in the same place. 
• Use Google Draw to create fancy buttons for the site. Before inputing these, the pictures need to be downloaded as a PNG and saved onto your computer. For some reason I could not add links to the images if I had retrieved them from the drive, they had to be retrieved from my computer. 
• It is important to plan how you want your site to look before you create one.
• Ensure that it takes no more than 3 clicks to get anywhere. You need to make this accessible for your learners. 
• Use a blank site to design.

I also learnt today that you can add these sites as buttons on the ipads. I am very keen to see if this helps my learners to access their sites faster and without adult assistance. 

Off topic - I briefly learnt about Immersive Reader. This is an extension. By highlighting text, right clicking and selecting 'help me read this' you get many different options to make text more accessible to you. It can change the font size and colour, can read out text, change the language etc. Very cool!