In a move to keep various pieces of information at our eager fingertips, iGoogle gives users an opportunity to pick and choose the information that most interests them and have it accessible when they enter their iGoogle account. Similar to accessing the basic Google search engine, iGoogle includes its famous search bar, but it also features an innumerable amount of widgets that display news headlines, weather in other parts of the world, events saved in your Google Calendar, or popular YouTube videos.
This application helps tailor the Internet to personal tastes, a descriptor of what is being called Web 3.0. As opposed to the well-known term "Web 2.0", which describes Internet sites that connect users to each other and allow people to collaborate on information (Wikipedia is a classic example of a Web 2.0 site), Web 3.0 focuses more on personalizing the Internet and presenting only information that interests the user.
As an educator, iGoogle keeps me in touch with relevant and current information. I am able to follow blogs, which present information that I can use in the classroom. News headlines help me predict the direction educational technology is moving and it helps me prepare for trainings I may need to offer or lessons I may need to learn myself. By pulling together all of this information you are able to stay current and up-to-date with the your profession, your personal interests, and your life!
Helping teachers integrate the Internet and other interactive technologies into the classroom.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Using Google Forms in the Classroom
Another fantastic addition to the bevy of Google applications available is Google Docs, the more familiar name for Google Documents. Docs allows multiple users to simultaneously collaborate on a single project, assignment, or document, which, if incorporated into the classroom, would allow students to work on a project with other members of a group without needing to be physically near their classmates. Students can work from the luxury of their homes, the comfort of a coffee shop, or their school library and also be working with their peers at the same time, even though those peers are currently elsewhere. Google Docs allows learning to happen outside of the classroom, but will still allow collaborative learning and group participation.
One feature within Google Docs is Forms. This allows users to create a document that other users could complete and submit their answer. So, how might this be used in the classroom? One way is to create assessments at the end of a unit. Students would access the form, which can be distributed via email or by embedding it into a website, answer the questions and submit their answers. Google Docs will then collect all submitted answers into an easy-to-read spreadsheet that has also graded the students answers! This means teachers do not have to spend time copying tests nor grading if they take advantage of Google Docs!
How else might Google Docs be utilized in the classroom?
Here is an example of a Form that has been embedded into my blog.
One feature within Google Docs is Forms. This allows users to create a document that other users could complete and submit their answer. So, how might this be used in the classroom? One way is to create assessments at the end of a unit. Students would access the form, which can be distributed via email or by embedding it into a website, answer the questions and submit their answers. Google Docs will then collect all submitted answers into an easy-to-read spreadsheet that has also graded the students answers! This means teachers do not have to spend time copying tests nor grading if they take advantage of Google Docs!
How else might Google Docs be utilized in the classroom?
Here is an example of a Form that has been embedded into my blog.
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