Session #2 (1 hr 50 min)Goals: Explore the Google Docs suite as a set of web-based tools to increase personal productivity, enhance teaching and extend learning opportunities.
- Listen to your class reflection. View the embedded 2010 Yodio "Shift Happens" (prev. page)
- (5 min) Update our electronic Attendance sheet and color your cell blue if present; and update our Class Data Sheet (remember, you need to be logged in to your Willamette Google Account).
- PHOTOS: would anybody like their's retaken. Need John's and Alexandria's
- (15 min) Reflect on Assn #1 (blog posts #1 and #2):
- View Class Data Sheet (should contain your Google Blog URL's)
- View Assessment/grades (need permission with willamettemat@gmail.com). Ask instructor for password. "View Rights"
- Discuss: pic of self and send to your gmail account & insert into your Blog.
- Discuss student blog experience (creating your two Posts & inserting mug shot).
- DEMO: Greek Mythology Blog (submitted by one of our candidates) | Reflections of HS Math Teacher | Dominique (China; math; journaling)
- (10 min) Brief presentation of modifying your Blog Profile (ie, comments, layout, permissions, co-editting, & application to class room)
- (~30 min) Experimenting with Google Docs as personal productivity and classroom instruction tool
- Take poll on current usage (doc, sheet, presentation, etc.)
- Log-out and http://docs.google.com to get overview.
- Summary: create new, upload existing, sharing, collaborating, publishing, compatibility, export, backup
- Log-in and demo docs.google.com. Don't forget to demo collaboration! -> Proj. Digital Citizenship (project in Canada)
- Begin Assignment #2 in class.
Assignment #2: (discuss, & begin in class if time)- In small groups (using the Jigsaw strategy), create a mini-project with the following criteria (and any additional creations you come up with):
- Be sure to invite your instructor as a co-editor :)
- Groups include: Google Docs, Sheets, Presentation, Drawings, Forms, & Picasa Web Albums
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