How another lockdown period may impact the learners in your focus group?
Will you need to make any changes to your Inquiry?
How might your intervention look different if you continue through this period?
- Do any of your intervention plans work via distance learning?
- Is there any information about implementation of your changed practices/interventions you could collect during this time?
My target group of learners for my Inquiry 2021 will be my Year 12 NCEA Level 2 class. This group of learners were my target group from my 2020 Inquiry.
One of the resources I developed for my target group of learners in the first week of lockdown, is a Develop a Website | Index of Table of Contents. This resource is basically a series of Table of Contents that relates to the LearnCoach online tutorials for Website Development, to prepare learners to complete the Level 2 Develop a Website Assessment.
The way that the resource works is as follows:
- Students open the document Develop a Website | Index of Table of Contents
- Then they use the Find function to locate the aspect of 'web development' that they trying to locate. In the image outlined above, the student wanted to know about the Navigation Bar
- The student clicks on one of the selections that is returned in the search using the Find tool, as each line of the table of contents links to a separate document. So, in the example above, the sets of text highlighted in green, when clicked on, will redirect to the document that includes information about Navigation Bars.
- The student toggles through the document that they've clicked on to locate the information that they're interested in. This could include an explanation of the website feature, aspects of the website feature, or how to use the correct and relevant codes in order to apply the website feature into their own website.
- The document name (that the student has navigated to) aligns with the name of the LearnCoach tutorial, which means that the student can then open the relevant LearnCoach tutorial to help them with the aspect of web development that they are working on
This resource cuts down a lot of time for the student, by enabling the student to focus on the web development feature, skill or codes that they specifically need. Otherwise, the alternative was that students were having to watch, and re-watch entire videos just to get to the section that they needed, in the hope that they were in the correct video. Quite a huge job!
As I was demonstrating this resource to students online in our Google Meet, they could see the benefit of the Develop a Website | Index of Table of Contents and how this would cut down a lot of time for them, which I was pleased to see.
