California Association of Teachers of English Presentation- English 2.0
Students love technology and social media. Come learn how we are leveraging this interest to increase student engagement in Language Arts. See what happens when students talk as characters in a chat room, and blog posts on theme. We will share student work samples from specific projects using Google Apps, Blogger, Today’s Meet and other free, web-based platforms. Hear about our challenges and successes, and have an opportunity to brainstorm applications for your classes.
Presentation
Introduction -
about ourselves, our school, the grant you can access our page during this workshop
-in our presentation give link to conference center wireless
Reminder for us: add links to the section we are talking about
What We Like About Google Drive:
- We’re assuming you know about Google Drive (basically MS Office in the cloud), here are some of the things we do with it
- Forms
- “Share it” Form - A blog entry to be graded, mention blanks at end for comments and grading, mention time stamp - Andy
- Using forms to survey students and graphically represent results- Patti
- Docs
- “View Only” and make a copy - To “hand out” paper (as an aside, when it comes time for students to share their document, I’d use the same form that Andy uses) - Mel
- Peer Editing Using Google Docs (Can you add the rubric?) - Patti
- Blogger
Andy
- instead of websites for online portfolios
- class blog to post assignments, give examples
- student blogs
Mel
- Example of assignment within the blog (students complete by commenting) (Theme of Party Girl) (Mel - show student work)
- Chat Rooms - Today’s Meet - Mel (show student work)
- Engrade - online grade book , quiz, turn it in - Patti
- Google Voice - Andy
- students can call you, leave a message that is converted to text
- text can be cut and pasted for a written assignment
- MS PhotoStory - Mel, Patti, Andy
- Vocaroo for podcasting - imbeds easily into Blogger - Andy
- Audacity - Andy
- Wevideo - Andy