Creating a Digital Collaborative Classroom - March 30, 2015
Objectives: Teachers will
become familiar with digital classrooms.
think of alternatives to paper and think of ways to go paperless.
create a collaborative environment for students.
Option 1: Google
Activity | Handouts/resource |
Hands-0n Activity for Collaborative Classroom | http://www.jokes4us.com |
Introduction to digital classroom Watch the video (6.56 min); talk with a partner or group about what you have already done to make your classroom collaborative, and what more you would like to do. Share out. |
Video: A Positive Classroom Environment |
Explore: Collaborative Classroom sites: Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence: DePaul Teaching Commons: Collaborative Learning Activities Divide into three groups
|
|
Google Drive - WP
Group 1 Read and correct Doc D together Notability- How could you use this as a collaborative tool? |
|
eachers create a collaborative document with fellow department members regarding possible uses of Google docs in their subject area | Google Docs account |
Break | |
Other Features of Google Drive
|
Google Docs account |
Google Forms: Teachers create a form to survey parents. Or a quiz. Or some other document….
|
Tutorials on the web that are current and good Google Forms 2014 Tutorial 12 minutes Google Forms – Google Drive’s Hidden Gem 13 minutes |
Magic Moment Cloudart Great Apps to Create Word Clouds on an iPad Although the sites below refer to another word cloud app, the ideas are GREAT.
|
Next steps:
- Complete the digital classroom environment or add more components
- Create/revise a new lesson where it is most appropriate using the digital classroom environment and reflect on the lesson’s outcome and student responses
Module 4: Creating a Collaborative Classroom
Download: