Thursday, June 27, 2013

Activity 4 Weiland's Google Docs in the Classroom

Write a blog post reflecting on your Google Apps for Education experience. Include at least three ideas for using Google Apps in your classroom and/or your own professional learning and productivity. At least one idea should reflect a collaborative use

My favorite App is Flubaroo.  I see this having multiple uses.  First, HPHS teachers who teach Juniors are encouraged to do ACT Science Prep work.  With this new tool, we can write practice ACT sample work and have the students complete the work online and at their own pace.  The autograde feature allows for rapid analysis of results and the ability to give feedback to the students.

Combining Flubaroo with a shared Google Form would allow course teams to create practice exam or reading guides for their course.  For example, my textbook has 30-50 end of the chapter questions.  If this information is transferred to a Google Form- the work can be provided to students for homework and in the morning the   teacher can review the results and see which topics need to be reviewed.  The teacher could ignore the “easy” questions.  By sharing the document, different team members can choose the chapter review questions that make the most sense for their class. 


Google Docs- Are used by my Robotics teams to maintain a group journal of their journey through the season.  This electronic diary allows all 5-10 members of the team to work together and create a standard consistent product even when multiple members are creating the form.

1 comment:

  1. Your HPHS students have had much more exposure to all things Google than the DHS kids.

    I like the idea of common assessments and Flubaroo.

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