September Meeting Recap

September Meeting Recap:

Using Docs, Sheets, and Slides to enhance student collaboration in the classroom!

Meeting summary- Teachers worked through collaboration features in docs, sheets, and slides in order to brainstorm activities they can try in their classroom!

Top 3 ways (by subject area) to utilize docs, sheets, and slides in your classroom.  Choose an activity that sounds cool and ask for help from Google Coaches in the building to make it a reality in your room.

Language Arts:

• Use google docs to collect writing samples and provide immediate feedback using a google add on that allows you to speak your comments to students instead of writing on the paper. Suggest using https://kaizena.com/  (verbal feedback in a document)
• Have students collaborate on a google slides presentation to Students provide images that correlate to the meaning of roots. Use the student created slides in class as a review game and post the document to the web so students can review at home.
• Use google docs to allow students to make suggestions, make comments while reviewing peer work. You can even have students tackle creative writing assignments in large groups. All the while, you can be providing real time feedback.

Social Studies:

• Allow students to build their own unit preview in google slides. For example, groups will work within the same slides presentation. Example: An Ancient greece preview activity would have 7 different groups finding videos, links, and facts that relate to seven different aspects of Ancient Greece (War, Culture, Religion, etc)

• In google docs, post a SS term and have students add a visual/image to show the meaning of the word
• Have students compare/ contrast two sources within the same document. Allow the class to build a strengths and weaknesses list as a class (in a shared doc) in order to see others opinions and perspectives.

Science:

• Use Google Sheets to track class lab results and make comparisons of group results. Share the document with all students in order to allow live data updates as students collect data.
• Use Google Slides to allow students to build their own study resource collection (videos, links to websites, images, etc). This can be done as a front-loading activity or as a review prior to the test. Either way, students work together to build a collection of learning materials they can later use to preview or review material in class.
• Use Google Docs to create a web-quest with live links that students can explore. Make a copy of the web-quest for each student to work through at their own pace or share the document with groups to allow collaboration.

Math:

• Use a google doc that allows students to ask and answer each other's questions while working through material in class. Keep the document running during challenging content as a way to allow students to help each other during challenging material.
• Use google slides to create a collection of relevant videos from kahn academy or other math tutorial videos related to topics being studied in class. Publish the slides presentation to the web to let students review tough concepts at home.
• Use google sheets to monitor student progress through concepts. Allow students to self monitor progress by enabling sharing settings and then use the information to differentiate instruction and partner students so that the strongest students can help the students who need help.

Spanish:

• Put students into groups based on first or last name (email Google doc to groups prior) and give them a prompt or sentence practice with conjugation. Have them work as a group to develop the story or form the sentences. Teacher monitors in class or my students enjoyed in the evening when I would check in and chat with them about what was correct and what needed changed. I would give them a set time frame to be online and check in with each group during that time if students were available. If not available, they can check back on the comments/edits later in the evening.
• Have students build a digital cartoon within google slides with group members. Students will collaborate with group members and then share with the teacher when completed so they can show the comics to the entire class
• Create a hyperdoc about a country that contains links to videos, websites and other web resources that students use to develop a country profile

Health:

• Post single nutrition label and have students post as much information they can pull from that single label
• Create a FAQ page for students to add questions/answers as each unit progresses
• Group can create a practice test

Music:

• Webquest to research composers
• Template for practice charts (use suggest and/or comment tool)
• Goal sheets for large group rehearsals

Tech:

• I share Google sheets (with tabs for different classes) student sign-up sheets for projects and presentation order.  There is also a presentation assignment where students must collaborate to make a presentation together (on same shared slide).  As a teacher, I send shared files out for assignments specifications to entire class.  Then I have student save with different name and share only with me to monitor their project and eventually grade the assignment. 

Art:

Building an electronic portfolio using Google docs- uploading images of each project upon completion and answering a few questions on their process and the selection of their idea for the artwork. Teacher could provide a shared doc that links out to all student work so students can comment on each other's work.

Research Period:

• Bell Schedule template, each student can report their grades to teacher