Track contributions made by collaborators or identify the source of changes made to the content of a document. It’s easy to see what each individual student contributes to a document because Google Docs assigns every contributor a unique color.
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Wiggio is a free, online toolkit that makes it easy for academic groups to organize class projects, social clubs and more. With Wiggio you can keep shared calendars (with text message reminders), poll group in real-time, send mass text messages, store files in one common folder, setup group conference call.
6 Ways Google Docs Supports Collaboration In The Writing Process - 2 views
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Our group project used the same approach by assigning a color to each persons comments so that the dialog could be followed clearly. I find the auto save feature within Google docs, common for todays technology but very helpful because it is one less worry when writing and you have the trust of Google cloud. Thanks Chris Andrianos
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Good point Chris, if I had a dime for every time I made edits to our group Wiki and forgot to save, I'd have a nice little paycheck. Wiki's seem to be the more basic of the tools available to us but effective nonetheless.
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50+ Tools for Differentiating Instruction Through Social Media | Edutopia - 21 views
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Selecting the Right Tool
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Very important - don't just choose technology for "technology's sake". -Dr. Fritz
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To me this is the most important aspect of incorporating technology into the classroom. Many teachers don't fully understand the technology that they are using and then the effectiveness isn't there.- Ryan Burks
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I agree! We must seek out the tools and techniques that work for our students, but also add to the lesson. We should not feel that we must use technology for "technology's sake".
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Zoom, a video conferencing tool that includes recording, enables students to connect with field experts on relating content to the world outside of school.
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John McCarthy Education Consultant, Advocate for Student Voice in Learning Imagine a world where resources were limited to what was found in the classroom or the school closet known as the "Curriculum Materials Room." Picture a world where students wrote letters with pen and paper to communicate with other students and adults outside of the building. A class room doesn't have to be limited to just pens and paper. -Jeannine McGoldrick
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* "Survey Monkey is one of many online survey tools for capturing pre- and formative assessment of students' progress. This one is also a good tool for student feedback on the helpfulness of the intervention used" I have used Survey Monkey in the past to create company-wide surveys to capture my colleagues ideas on diversity, company processes and best practices in nonprofit. Never have I thought about using survey monkey as an assessment tool for students....and the fact that it can be used for differentiation is even more exciting.
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Learning how to comment here! Differentiation with technology is excellent!
Introducing Social Media to Elementary Students | Edutopia - 23 views
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it has become an imperative for us as educators -- and parents -- to model appropriate digital citizenship to even our youngest learners.
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"Even our youngest learners" - yes - as young as preschool if they understand reading a book/print.
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I think of my 8 month old and her ability to swipe left and right on my husbands Kindle already! Our children are exposed to all sorts go technology from birth and we should exposed them to it but responsibly. I remember telling my husband, i didn't want her to watch tv too early or be exposed to technology without loving the pages of a book first... It's definitely hard, can be done, be technology and social media should be in moderation. -Jess Ross
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Jess,your comment took me back to another article I read about how today's young people's brains have been completely rewired and almost programmed to be receptive to technology. But your concern as to how to behave in a parentally responsible way with regard to when and how to introduce your young child to technology made me also recall earlier articles I read about the many tech-employed parents working in Silicon Valley and how they have elected not to expose their preschool and elementary children to technology and social media because these, they believe, " inhibit creative thinking, movement, human interaction and attention spans." Like you, many want their children to discover of the magic of turning a page of a book and getting lost in it. Here is a like to one such article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/technology/at-waldorf-school-in-silicon-valley-technology-can-wait.html?_r=0 (O. McBride)
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Thanks O. It is amazing the how many folks in Silicon Valley have the outlook. I understand their theory, however, i do understand that our work is saturated with it and it's many time necessary to even communicate and learn. I'm looking forward to digging in to this resource and reading a little more on this subject. Thanks for the article! :) -Jess Ross
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teacher's blog post
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I JUST LOVE THIS. This is everything I hope for in my future classroom. As I have been planning my final project, I felt as if I was starting out with something way to involved and was thinking about scrapping it all. After reading this, I am keeping it and am up for the challenge, as the students will get so much out of the experience! Awesome to hear how it works in other classrooms. I will have to check out her Twitter to see how it is unfolding! (Shannon Feerrar)
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This is definitely a shining example of how successful it can be for an educator. I know I would love to implement some kind of technology into my classroom and the way this teacher is doing it is a great inspiration. The engagement piece of the students is is something we all strive for and how to change it up so our students want to keep asking those questions! -Andrea Zajac
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The classes' twitter page: https://twitter.com/MrsWideensClasshttp://kidblog.org/home/
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The more I reflect on introducing social media to our elementary students, the more I wonder if we are teaching them that they are not relevant unless they are connected to a group of individuals beyond their physical environment, or to subconsciously validate themselves by the number of likes or comments they receive from their followers...#hmmmm~ Marissa Williams
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"To teach the concept of posting and commenting, the students created physical blogs on bulletin boards in the hallway of the school." Before actually introducing a social media tool in the class we could have a blog wall to teach students #posting, #commenting and reflection to stare and frame their conversations and get them familiar with the process.
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