Reflection #3

This week was so much fun to interract with other students in the classroom and put together a powerpoint slide show to convey classroom rules. I think this is such an incredible tool for the classroom. Kids can do so much and be extremely creative with it. Kids could create stories about their lives and send it to kids in different countries and become google buddies with someone in say Japan. Then that person in Japan could send a slideshow back of their life. It'd be such a cool way to learn about other cultures. Group projects and presentations would be fun for students and they wouldn't have to meet together, but they'd have the information and be able to collaborate from thier own homes. Teachers could create lessons on it together. If it was something each student needed to learn about in the school, each teacher could show it in their classroom. Teachers can actually post for all their students what is due in class the next day and what to bring and the lesson plans. What a great way to help kids be prepared! There are so many incredible things to do with this google tool. Its awesome!!

Video Reflection #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPjJK6LZdM

This video really opened my eyes to some new insight about google docs. I had this thought come to me while watching, think if each teacher used google docs which is free instead of passing around paper how much money and how many trees it would save! If EVERY teacher did it? I thought to myself that maybe it would save enough money that each classroom could afford to have a computer for each student in the classroom!! This video shows how much students are getting into google docs. They use it for peer review, to talk to kids in other parts of the world, and to write essays within the classroom. The teachers in the video commented on how awesome it is to see their students exerting special effort on assignments in google docs because these students know so many people are going to be looking at it and they want it to look good. It is a technological age and kids can relate so much better to typing than using paper and pen. I'm so excited to have learned this new tool and to be able to learn more about it and apply it in my own classroom!