Well, after completing this lesson and having everything here ready to go I was spell checking my post and pressed backspace to change a word and it deleted everything that I had ready to post!!!!!! Horrible!
Lets try this again I guess...
I was able to create a document of a grading rubric that we are going to use for a project in our Science class on the Human Body systems and share it with my team members. I also created a form in which I polled some of my fellow teachers on what their favorite NBA team is.
The NBA poll can be found here.
Tool 4 was pretty much a review of all of the Google Products we have previously become familiar with via all of our campus technology offerings/my GT training this summer. The products are very useful, however I think that they can best be used to collaborate with fellow teachers to share and edit documents, for example a test, and together at the same time make changes to the document from anywhere with Internet access! No more saving and emailing the document to open, change, save, and send back through email.
The best opportunity for parallel teaching throughout the grade level, in my opinion, could be reached with this google docs or forms tool. If I had an idea about what my students are doing in LA or Social Studies I am confident that I could find a way to tie in their learning fro mother classes into Science class, just as I am sure that the other teachers could build upon what we're doing in Science. This is something that really could be achieved without much effort at all...
As a teacher, once I have our technology in my classroom I will be able to share forms (test questions, practice quiz questions, or other checks for understanding) with my students in the middle of a lesson to make sure they're all "Staying with me" as we are goingover a more difficult topic. IN addition I would be able to save so much paper if I knew that all of my students had access to a computer and could get online to do the homework that I shared with them over the web...
Glad you are familiar with Google Apps and can see some ways to use some of the tools with your students. Yes, Google Forms is a fabulous tool and would be so easy to create quizzes and little questionnaires during the lesson for your students to complete. You might also take a look at Poll Everywhere for that! Wonder if you could have your students submit questions for homework that y'all can discuss at the beginning of the next class.
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