This is the PD session by Frances Cross on 31st October 2016. A good look at how you can use google apps to help support critical thinking in your classroom.
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During a session I was at with the beginning teachers yesterday, we discussed one of the issues they found students were having. When a teacher puts a document as an announcement and asks students to make a copy to write their answers in, they found that this was an annoying task for students and some students struggled with it. Of course you can set tasks as assignments and by doing this you can select to send copies to all students. However sometimes you don't want to do this for a variety of reasons. There is a way to put a link either into Google Classroom or in an email which forces the person clicking on it to automatically create their own copy rather than typing into your master copy. This is so quick and easy and can be used in a lot of different ways.
These instructions are from Klista Rader via youtube.
This post follows on from 'How to Upload a Word Doc' to google drive.
Converting a word doc to a google doc enables you to send worksheets via google classroom assignments to each and every one of your students very easily. The next blog post will provide instructions on how to send a document via a google classroom assignment. This blog post provides instructions for how to convert a word doc, the same process can be used for converting an excel spreadsheet or PowerPoint file. Click here if you would like to view these instructions full screen.
Of course pedagogy is super important, and admittedly this blog post is not heavy in pedagogy, however sometimes students and some of us teachers like things to look good!!! Here is a collection of new templates from google that I think could be useful for a number of different subjects. All of these templates can be found if you go to www.slides.google.com at the top, click on More and there are quite a few. Slides Carnival is also another useful website I go to for google slides templates when I want something a little different. These are all free of course!
I have also provided some templates to students via the Tech Wizards Blog. The templates were for a newspaper style google doc. I used this for a task in Health. Click here for this blog. And here are some other slides templates that are quite neat also created by the Slides Carnival website and on I've put on the Tech Wizards website.
And below is a new google doc template for completing Science Lab Reports. - click here for a copy.
This task is great for:
It has the power to enhance students COLLABORATIVE SKILLS, COMMUNICATION SKILLS & provides a space in which they can be as CREATIVE as they like (depending on the task you have set!). Some Examples
Thanks Simon for running this PD session on 17th August 2015. And thanks for sharing your knowledge and resources with the staff.
The most recent thing happening on twitter at the moment is the #hackyrclass movement. Claire Amos from the new Hobsonville Point Secondary School began this movement this term and it has certainly taken off around NZ. Claire sends out a new topic every week for you to explore in your own way and find innovative/exciting/new ways of engaging your students and to create an effective learning environment in your classroom. The thing that I really like about what Claire has done is that the focus is on the learner rather than the etool. This has invigorated me and is challenging me to further reflect on how I use technology. Her most recent topic'Getting to know your learners' provided some awesome ideas for how to enhance your relationships with your students. This is a great place to start, choose one and then figure out how to use the etool to achieve it. Two ways that I have worked on enhancing my relationships with my students are:
2. Pecha kucha's - check out my old blog entry on this from last year.
The #hackyrclass movement is all over twitter. If you have a twitter account, just search the hashtag #hackyrclass and you will find an amazing number of ideas from all over NZ & internationally of people having a crack at her challenge. If your not on twitter, email Raewyn Donnell and she will give you a tutorial video or if you ask nicely she might help you set it up in person! So come on everyone, lets get 'hacking'. |
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