{"id":50,"date":"2014-11-25T16:16:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/?p=50"},"modified":"2014-11-25T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:16:59","slug":"trying-to-get-the-most-out-of-a-project-with-google-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/2014\/11\/25\/trying-to-get-the-most-out-of-a-project-with-google-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying To Get The Most Out Of A Project With Google Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We ask a lot of our students. I always seem to have\u00a0big plans and ideas\u00a0to make the experience of a project as meaningful as possible.<\/p>\n<p>On top of creating their program and their written report, wouldn&#8217;t it be great if the student spoke to an adult in their life who is interested in STEM and got their feedback on their code and report? and if they assessed themselves using the project rubric before handing it in? and if they edited and made multiple drafts of the report and could track their improvements? and if they could get peer\u00a0feedback throughout the process?<\/p>\n<p>As great as these experiences could be for the students, I am always cautious of overwhelming students with the number of individual tasks. I\u00a0don&#8217;t want organizational challenges to interfere with the experience of the project. I tried to streamline the task management and organization for this project using Google Classroom&#8217;s &#8220;make a copy for each student&#8221; feature. It allowed me to create an identical document for each student where the girls can do all of their thinking, reflecting, editing, and self-assessing in the same place they submit their final products.<\/p>\n<p>The template has:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0check-list of all of the required tasks<\/li>\n<li>A space for them to make notes on\u00a0their experience sharing their project with an adult in their life interested in STEM (also a space for the adult).<\/li>\n<li>A place for them to write their final report<\/li>\n<li>The functionality to give their peers comment privileges to get peer feedback.<\/li>\n<li>The ability to automatically track the changes and edits they make<\/li>\n<li>A copy of the rubric for them to self-assess by highlighting specific criteria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Classroom also stores these templates by student, so it is easy for me to see all of their rough work and final products in one place!\u00a0All of these tasks\u00a0can be done without a computer, but Google Classroom allows me\u00a0to provide\u00a0scaffolding and support for the task managing aspect of the project which I have found can be a significant barrier to some students. A one-stop-shop-doc for their project.<\/p>\n<p>I believe <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/doctopus\/ffhegaddkjpkfiemhhnphmnadfbkdhbf?hl=en\">Doctopus<\/a> has the same functionality (if you aren&#8217;t using classroom).<\/p>\n<p>Maybe doing this for every single project\u00a0does more harm than good. A big part of Middle School is learning how\u00a0to manage time and prioritize tasks and I\u00a0don&#8217;t want to completely take that out of my\u00a0classroom. I am\u00a0interested to see if this\u00a0approach does in fact enable students to\u00a0get more out of the different parts of the project and if it has an impact, positive or otherwise, on the way my students\u00a0manage tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ask a lot of our students. I always seem to have\u00a0big plans and ideas\u00a0to make the experience of a project as meaningful as possible. On top of creating their program and their written report, wouldn&#8217;t it be great if the student spoke to an adult in their life who is interested in STEM and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/2014\/11\/25\/trying-to-get-the-most-out-of-a-project-with-google-classroom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trying To Get The Most Out Of A Project With Google Classroom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}