Week q MEIT program
Welcome to my Blog, to better understand my posts it would behoove you to know that I teach for a virtual high school. I have four classes with varying degrees of difficulty and student numbers. My AP courses are small in number of students but much of their structure is beyond my control. My Biology class consists of a mix of students almost 200 strong. Environmental science has roughly 38 students.
It seems to me the tools being taught during this first class will be very helpful for my interactions with my teaching colleagues. I had just learned about Google doc's in a meeting in December. My department used the Google doc's to produce a rubric for grading research papers. We also used Google doc's to produce a schedule for student projects next year. In my AP class I used the Google Doc's for a survey to find out information concerning number of student's planning on taking this year's AP examinations. This proved very useful. The tools concerning communication and collaboration may or may not be as helpful when working with my student's. I believe class size may inhibit collaborative work biology. This program has already stimulated ideas for incorporating more collaboration in my classes. In particular I am writing curriculum for nest years Environmental science class which usually has between 30-40 students each year and with this number I look forward to implementing many of the collaborative strategies and techniques we will learn in this class
I have not been able to sign into the Stritch Wolfmail system but have an account of my own set up on a different Email app. Hopefully I will be able to collaborate with my assigned group but I am currently waiting on a fix or assigned group.
I have begun the process of comparing Google Doc's word processing and Microsoft Word which is the traditional word processor I use. I am unsure of which Google features to discuss.
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The idea of creating a departmentalized rubric via Google Docs is one I hope to set up in my assessment strand (professional development meetings in my school district). It's actually an excellent idea...it's efficient and avoids the hassle typing and retyping to accomodate other's modifications. Plus, (she's going to love this ;) ), we can still include the teacher who will be on maternity leave!
ReplyDeleteHi Terry, I also am a word user who was questioning what to compare with google docs. I had not used google docs until yesturday to complete the assignment. Some of the things that I compared were pretty obvious, like the advantages of google docs being web based so you can access it from any computer. I also read some reviews and noticed there are some differences in printing and formatting. The reviews gave me some good ideas and also just playing around alittle bit, hopefully that gets you started too!
ReplyDeleteI think over time we will see more "cloud" word processors and less desktop based ones. The idea of creating an assessment with colleagues and be able to work on in different times and places has great potential. Keep us posted.
ReplyDeleteI also look forward to experiences from the trenches as you let us know how your online teaching goes. Thanks for sharing and it will be good to learn with you.