Until now, we have been working how to search information, how to organize it, but these week we have learned how we manage it. If you keep reading you will find some relevant information.
Working in groups has never been as comfortable and complete as now is. Thanks to useful features of Google + such as: HANGOUTS, GOOGLE DRIVE and GOOGLE CALENDAR; you can organize and make your project works in a way never possible before.
To start, let me tell you we are working on a project called “Go for it” in our Digital Literacy subject, which
is a hypothetical didactic unit of science for students in the second year of
primary school. I will talk about it in future posts. It’s is about the human body, the five senses and also the hygienic habits. We are a group of four students that we are working together on that project
and we are using all the features that Google + offers us. I really recommend you
to use them, because it facilitates a lot our work!
On the one hand, with the tool called Hangouts you can easily send and receive
messages or just simply make a video call to anybody. It’s a powerful
tool for making connections and working collaboratively. Many educators have
embraced Hangouts to enrich both their students’ learning experiences and their
own professional development.
Here you have some
ideas from teachers who are using it in classroom: from a virtual book club (classes
that are reading the same book or similar genres can discuss novels together
and recommend books to one another); rethink student presentations (What
better way to make learning real and relevant than to have students share their
work with adults who can provide constructive feedback at the end of the
presentation?) ; Invite guest speakers (Video-calling enables anyone
from around the world to “visit” a school); Collaborate with your PLN (With
everyone just a video call away, educators can work on projects and share ideas
with anyone around the world), and so on.
The possibilities of
using Hangouts in education are endless. How will you transform your learning
and the learning of your students?
(If you are interested about google hangouts and its functioning, just
take a glance in this link http://hobbytohot.com/intro-google-hangouts/ )
On the other
hand, with Google Calendar not only can you organize and plan your work, but
also share it with all the members you are working with. This is a very useful tool to keep in touch
with all the dates of the project. In our project, for instance, we have the calendar shared with all the four members and we have an alarm that advises us when is the limit date to have finished a part of the project.
Finally, there is Google Drive, an
unlimited potency. This is the feature that lets users upload documents,
images, spreadsheets and more has millions of neat little ways to boost your
everyday activity. It's also a useful online warehouse that holds all the
things you don't have space for on your computer. You can have the documents in
a private way or share them with other
members. Google Drive offers you a calcul document, a writting document, some programes to make surveys or graphics...but the one we use the most is the writting document. It's benefits are unbelievable.
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