Tuesday, July 20, 2010
NYSCATE Leadership Summit 2010
A link to my presentation at the NYSCATE conference this afternoon. I'm shocked, but I got assigned the Auditorium. I have to use a microphone. Wish me luck!
Monday, July 12, 2010
Group Work and Peer Editing
I was trying to explain to a class just how revolutionary I think online document platforms like "Google Docs" are going to be. I thought I'd share some ideas about it here.
As an educator, you can put yourself in as a collaborator on any or all of your student's documents. A teacher can simply make it a requirement that the student shares the document editing process. The National council of teachers of English encourages writing as a process. As a teacher you will be able to see how the student is revising the document.
First the student must share the document with the teacher. The student clicks the "Share" button in the upper right hand corner and types in the email addresses of those who will have access to the document. You have the choice of letting the collaborator view or edit with you. Here is a document with many collaborators:
All the teacher has to do is sign into google documents and they will see all their student documents. The document list shows the documents you are a collaborator on. It also show the names of the other collaborators. If the student hasn't added the teacher as a collaborator, it won't appear. I make it a requirement that I must be a collaborator in each of my students documents.
The teacher clicks on the student's document and then can see when the student has been working, how many changes have been made and if anyone else has been editing the document.
The teacher simply need to click the menu choice "REVISION HISTORY"
At the revision history screen, the teacher will see the process of editing the document. Below is a the revision history from the Technology Plan that my district recently completed. We had a entire committee of people editing the document as once. You could quickly see who made what changes and how much time they had spent.
This new online document tool ushers in a new era for student document collaboration. No more will group work be done by one student while the others slack off. No more can a student slap something together on the day of the deadline. The teacher can check and see when the editing was done and by whom.
It is powerful tool for a teacher. A Google document account is free. As educators we should be taking advantage of this technology.
Kim Cronin Bunchuck
As an educator, you can put yourself in as a collaborator on any or all of your student's documents. A teacher can simply make it a requirement that the student shares the document editing process. The National council of teachers of English encourages writing as a process. As a teacher you will be able to see how the student is revising the document.
First the student must share the document with the teacher. The student clicks the "Share" button in the upper right hand corner and types in the email addresses of those who will have access to the document. You have the choice of letting the collaborator view or edit with you. Here is a document with many collaborators:
All the teacher has to do is sign into google documents and they will see all their student documents. The document list shows the documents you are a collaborator on. It also show the names of the other collaborators. If the student hasn't added the teacher as a collaborator, it won't appear. I make it a requirement that I must be a collaborator in each of my students documents.
The teacher clicks on the student's document and then can see when the student has been working, how many changes have been made and if anyone else has been editing the document.
The teacher simply need to click the menu choice "REVISION HISTORY"
At the revision history screen, the teacher will see the process of editing the document. Below is a the revision history from the Technology Plan that my district recently completed. We had a entire committee of people editing the document as once. You could quickly see who made what changes and how much time they had spent.
This new online document tool ushers in a new era for student document collaboration. No more will group work be done by one student while the others slack off. No more can a student slap something together on the day of the deadline. The teacher can check and see when the editing was done and by whom.
It is powerful tool for a teacher. A Google document account is free. As educators we should be taking advantage of this technology.
Kim Cronin Bunchuck
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