DFI Session Five- The Hypothetical Hub on sites.

During Gerhard's presentation about the Kaupapa of Share I learnt about the decision process which sat behind this. Using a a digital platform eventuated because Manaiakalani noticed that students wanted to share online through social media- so it made sense to allow them to share their learning online and provide an authentic audience
I never considered the types of audience we present to; Gerhard broke these down into two types of audiences.
Compulsory audience- one another,  assemblies, classmates, showing work to whānau. 
Authentic audience- choose to listen to what we have to share, can be anywhere in the world with internet access.

Manaiakalani choose Blogger carefully to ensure it was worthwhile and user friendly. Blogger allows external visitors to encourage learners rather than their work being placed in a book box under the desk just to me only viewed by the teacher or perhaps some other classmates.

We delved deeper into the world of sites today, even being given the opportunity to refine a site we already had. One problem with that... I don't have a site to refine. Jos was in the same boat so it looked like we were starting a fresh! So the Hypothetical Hub was born and we started to plan and form what was going to be a class website for a Hypothetical Hub that may form at Awapuni School. 

We explored complimentary colours and even choose a colour scheme for our new Hypothetical Hub thanks to Color palettes.

The process is underway and there is a fair journey ahead for the Hypothetical Hub yet but it has been great being able to put our learning into action.