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Reflections from DFI course - Day 6

 Today we focused on our class site, and we practiced giving feedbacks to different class sites. We had to consider things like whether the class site was easy to access, simple and clean, but at the same time, pleasant to look at. I had a chance to look at other people's class sites and could get lots of ideas.

After that, we were together with our own bubble and shared our class site and shared feedbacks and feedforward to each other. I got some comments that were very positive and also some that were critical. 

Main problem with my site was that the page that was supposed to be set as home wasn't working and the hidden page was still a home. I had to transfer everything that was on Distance Learning page onto Home, and Home to Distance learning, so this took awhile, but now it is less confusing. 

I have left last week's butten below this week because some people might want to revisit last week's work.

Below it, I made term 2 and 3 button so people can access other works from other weeks too.

This is the Distance Learning page. This was originally the homepage, and I also changed the Home Learning and Holiday Learning button so they are nice and big, and I also put children's faces on there.
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One of the comments have said that there were too many things on the top, and I completely agreed with this comment. So I made more pages (Term 2, Term 3) and filed all the weeks of work and made buttons for these. 


I put the Term 3 Week 5 page into the Term 3 file, and put all the Term 2 works on Term 2 file.

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Term 3

Term 2

Finally, in the files Term 2 and Term 3, I made buttons that went into each week, and a button that returns to homepage so people don't get lost. This was one of the ideas I got from our bubble.

It took awhile to do, but it looks much more clean and I feel quite happy with it. Making the buttons from scratch we did on Day 5 proved really useful today.



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  1. Vicki @ ManaiakalaniAugust 30, 2020 at 5:33 PM

    Kia ora Gabrielle,

    It looks like you achieved a lot! I'm sure now that you've got it organised it will be easier to keep it running like that. Were there any ideas you got from looking at others sites that you'd be keen to try and integrate into your site?

    Ngā mihi
    Vicki

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