speed sharing…. google+ as a classroom discussion board
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Speed sharing…. Google+ as a classroom discussion board. Richard Kelleher eLearning Co- ordinator Killester College, Springvale, Victoria. [email protected]. Google Apps for Education free for all schools easy to set up can keep current Exchange email server*. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Google Apps for Education
• free for all schools
• easy to set up
• can keep current Exchange email server*
Core services in Google Apps have telephone support for administrators.
Non-core services do not have support and need to be added.
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A “walled-garden” or internal school-only instance of Google+ is not possible. If Google+ is turned on for students then they can interact with the rest of the world.
Each user lands on a page where posts by those they follow appear.
People and organisations have a page where their own posts are collated.
The power of Google+ lies in the communities - excellent sources of professional development.
We advise teachers not to use Google+ like Facebook, but to use their school accounts to develop professional networks.
Teachers can set up private communities – students can be invited to join, or can request to join after they have searched for and found the community.
In a private community a teacher can set questions to be answered by individual students, with all students being able to see the answers.
A student can ask a question of the teacher, with all students being able to see the answers.
Avoids getting lots of emails asking the same thing the night before the test.
A student can ask a question of the teacher, but sometimes other students get in first to answer.
In this example two students are discussing how to solve a chem problem.
A student or teacher can post interesting links or other content that students can read and comment on.
So there is no need to regularly check your class.
A notification appears when there is a new post to a community
Click!
Posts can be read and responded to within any Google session (ie without leaving email, for example).
Click to expand if post is interesting
Problem #1: profile names.
Students (& teachers) can change their profile names.
This change propagates through all Google products!
Solution = educate users(& ban name changes in your AUP)
Harried admin after kids change their names.