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Teaching with Wikis, Google Docs & Google Sites. Lessons learned, ideas & reflections. Michael J. Sukowski, M.Ed. Assistant Professor—Instructional Design and Technology Director of Instructional Design and Technology Services
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Teaching with Wikis, Google Docs & Google Sites Lessons learned, ideas & reflections Michael J. Sukowski, M.Ed. Assistant Professor—Instructional Design and Technology Director of Instructional Design and Technology Services College of Graduate and Innovative Programs Concordia University Chicago
Student engagement • Do I engage my students? • http://www.schooltube.com/video/35819/A-Vision-for-k-12-Learners-Today
Education Applications for Google Docs • Ways in which groups work together • presentations • shared documents • surveys • Monitoring group activity
Reflections on Collaborative Skill Set •Trust –Build a working relationship •Patience –Technology skills evolve at different rates •Frustration –Stick with it –Ask for help •Satisfaction –Product is immediate and visible
Using Wikis as a Group Project • 1. Help to build two important higher order cognitive skills • student collaboration • consensus building • 2. Allows students: • to reflect, articulate, and synthesize ideas online
PBworks as a Complement to Blackboard • student generated content • sharing found images and examples • sharing online resources • student collaboration on multimedia
Google Docs as a Workspace for Wikipedia Article Creation • Team collaborates: • on Google Docs to start new Wikipedia article or article section • Get feedback and comments from other students and instructor • Revise article • Insert in Wikipedia as new article or new article section
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 How to Create Self-Graded Quizzes in Google Docs In my free ebook Google for Teachers I included directions for creating and publishing a quiz using Google Documents forms. Recently, Dr. Mark Wagner published a blog post that includes directions for creating formulas that will result in quizzes created in Google Docs forms being self-graded. His post includes a video screencast and slides. I've embedded the video below. Applications for Education Grading quizzes can be a tedious task if you have many students on your roster. Creating and administering quizzes through Google Documents forms can save you time and save paper at the same time. By saving time on grading you can give students feedback quicker than before.
Resources • Faculty Summer Institute (FSI): • 4-day conference for higher education instructors and other professionals • participants are from • Illinois state universities • community colleges • private universities • out-of-state universities Learning Team: Teaching with Wikis & Google Docs LiAnne Kitchen Michael Sukowski Miriam Satern Paul Lempke Ribhi Salhi Rob Little Tracey E Hickox Barbara McFarlin Brian Ogrodowski Cindy Kirwan Gary Cziko Jason Mock Jennifer D. Jones John Graham TEAM FACILITATORS Joe Grohens & Norma I. Scagnoli