Activity 4- Google Suite

20% time: First week ideas

The above link is for the first week of using 20% in college prep.  It is mainly ideas from another educator's webpage, but customized for our use.  Rather than referring back to the webpage, I thought it would be easier to have it in a working document that can be used and shared by everyone teaching college prep courses.  We are still working on determining if this is the way that we want to go or if we just use more of a "Genius Hour" idea.

• How will you use your Google Drive in your teaching practice?
• I will use Google Drive for all documents that are going to and from my students this year. With Chromebooks in the classroom and use of Google classroom, it will provide my students and me with the ability to easily access all of the information. Plus, I really like that it saves in real time and I can go back and see revision history for the "I swear I did it. I don't know how it got deleted" problem.
• How could cloud computing be a useful tool in your classroom?  
• I think it can be very beneficial by allowing more individual student feedback and attempting to go paperless. It will allow me to send students feedback on their progress and/or final projects that I can do from home instead of one on one. Plus, I don't have to worry about hauling paper around and having a student claim that I must have lost it.
• What are the pros and cons of using it with students?
• Many of my thoughts are listed in my previous statements, but I feel the biggest con that I have right now is that I am worried about staying on top of the organization of it all. My own drive gets disorganized quickly without many students sharing things with me. Also, I am a little worried about having students with an organization system in their own Drive. I plan on ensuring that all of my students set up a seperate folder in their drive for just my class. It is the modern way of students buying notebooks and folders for each class.