Today has been a great day at cohort21. I loved breaking into small groups and brainstorming with the Knowledge and Collaboration group! You can check out our action plans and thoughts on our wallwisher page. It was interesting hearing about the common road blocks between high school and elementary students, such as set up, and scaffolding using the technology!
What I’m taking from today is viewing google docs in a new light! My group has recommended using google docs with my Grade 3’s as another means of online collaboration. I’ve been greatly resistant to this because my students don’t have email addresses.
Today I actually had the opportunity to generate my own google document! I’m going to use this as a way to exhibit the student’s novel study videos to parents at our upcoming student led conference day. I learned how to upload a video to youtube, transfer it to quietube to get rid of advertisements, then link to google docs. I think having a couple of laptops around the room during the conference open to the google docs page will allow students to easily find their name/video from the list, and show their parents.
My next steps include checking out kidblog, finding new uses for google docs in the classroom, and checking out new forums that promote digital collaboration amongst students!
Hi Gillian,
Great day indeed! It was great to catch up with you, and to meet Josh as well – thanks for bringing him in! In terms of Google Docs, please do go back to the resources that we’ve provided as well. I wonder how you, and your admin would feel about getting your students class-specific Gmail accounts to test out Google Docs for your school. You could work with Josh to ensure that the Emails were used only for school purposes, and thus, any docs created would primarily remain in the school purpose area. Just a thought…
More to come, I am sure,
garth.
Jillian – it sounds like you had an incredible day Saturday at the third F2F Cohort 21 session. I am sorry I couldn’t be there! I am sure the grade 3 class will love using GoogleDocs and creating the novel study videos. Enjoy!