I’d recommend using it as a useful tool for project-based learning where students can collaborate in real-time, hold chats, and even finalize a project from different locations.
Fantastic applications of Google Drive in the classroom!
The other big way I’d recommend trying out Google Drive would be for mind maps. You can create mind maps using a presentation in Google Drive and work on it with others at the same time.
Are you a Google Drive / Google Docs fan? Do you take notes, compose papers, construct spreadsheets, and build presentations in real-time on the web while collaborating with others? I’m not necessarily promoting Google Drive; just merely pointing out a few of the powerful ways the free tool can help you save time and keep you better organized.
I've begun a journey this week where my students and I are collaborating on PE "sportfolios". So, I guess what I am saying, is you can add e-portfolios to the list!
This is fantastic! I can't wait to use it with my 7/8 Language Arts students. It looks way easier than the Word version. Has anyone implemented in with their students, yet? How did it go?
"If you've ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie - like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write."
A template to have students share and hand in work to you through google docs by dumping it into various folders that they have connected to their google drive folder.
Great extended use of Google Docs to help navigate large documents with lots of information. Instead of adding links to other documents, add links within via a Table of Contents
Easy Bib Bibliography Creator is an add-on that creates a guide within Google docs that allows you to search for books, journals, and websites to automatically generate citations in order to properly format them in MLA, Chicago and APA for a bibliography or a work cited page. (Show this one to your students writing research papers!)
The following tools are listed from most basic to most sophisticated and can be used alone or in tandem to make flipped classrooms more engaging.
Teachem is a timely and valuable resource ideal for teachers interested in a more structured flipped classroom but unwilling to commit to paid or complex programming.
YouTube
Ideal for first-time flippers
Teachem
Google Docs have many advantages over traditional word processing programs, including real-time automatic updates visible to all users, a feature that enables robust discussion and sharing.
The Flipped Learning Network
A social media site open to first-time and experienced flippers, the Flipped Learning Network contains resources for all kinds of flipped classrooms while facilitating discussion, collective problem-solving and peer networking.
Camtasia Studio
Perhaps the most popular screencasting technology available, Camtasia Studio is now in its eighth incarnation and has remained up-to-date with educational trends
Edmodo or Schoology
eyond enabling activities fundamental to the flipped classroom, such as video lectures and e-readings, these comprehensive online learning platforms offer educator networks and resources,
iscussion and collaboration features, and grading and assessment options.
Awesome list of books for educators to read in a number of great categories including blended learning, congnitive science, creativity/innovation/design thinking.