Newsletters and Forms

With Letter Pop you can create attractive newslettters on a variety of templates, with images. They can be published on the web or printed.

 

Use Google Templates  to create a professional looking e-newsletter or other document that you'll use in your practice.

 

Use a Temeplalte on Microsoft Word (Open Project Gallery to find templates)

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Create  an On-Line  Survey

 

Use Google Forms to create a simple survey and compile your results in charts, graphs or spreadsheets.  Embed your form in a wiki (the cohort wiki, your Families Class group wiki, or a wiki for a teaching unit) and on your Tech Portfolio.

Tools to Support Collaboration Among Colleagues

Besides using Wikis to coordiinate group collaboration, Google offers other very useful tools to support collaboration.

 

Google Docs has changed the way that I (Jane) work.  Upload Word documents to Google docs to access them from any computer.  Share documents with colleagues who can edit, comment, or simply view.  Great for backing up files or just for taking meeting notes on a laptop that you can then acess later from a different computer.

             Learn more about Google Docs in the classroom here. 

    Google has good ideas for  Google Docs for Teachers here.

             And more ideas for teachers here.  

 

 

 Assignment:    Use a Google Doc to collaborate with a colleague/MT/Field Instructor in an "authentic " application. Invite Jane if it's private, simply post the URL  if it's public.

 

 

Google Sites is a wiki-like platform for creating colaborative spaces.   Assignment:    Set up a Site to enable collaboration on a group project for your courses or to host material for a unit that you'll be teaching.  Include at least three pages and two forms of media (images, video, audio, embedded presentations).

 

 

Moving Beyond Powerpoint

 

A number of excellent tools let you move beyond powerpoint to put presentations on the web- - for collaboration in creating the presentation, or for enabling students (or parents or colleagues) to view them across space and time.  How might it change teaching to put up the power point of our lecture the night before class, and then spend class time talking about the applications/analysis/ next levels of thinking??

 

NOTE:  YOU  MAY USE ANY  OF  THESE  FOR  YOUR  SCIENCE  INQUIRY  ASSIGNMENT.  

 

Requirement:   Create a presentation of something you'll teach or to fulfill a course assignment.   Embed your presentation on your portfolio.

 

Google Presentations (one type of document in Google Docs) is a PowerPoint-like platform on the web. You can invite collaborators, and then, when you invite people to view your presentation on line, you can start a chat function so that all audience members can communicate throughout the presentation.

 

Slide Rocket lets you create visually lovely presentations and, with a paid account, to do voice over on your slides.

 

Slide Share lets you upload your Powerpoints (or PDFs or Word documents) to the web so that students can view multiple times or colleagues can share your brilliant presentation.

 

 

FYI:    Not for this class, but you should know about this option for Creating Secure Docs, Sites, email for Students via Google Apps:  

 

You can create acounts for a school that integrate all of these Google tools within  Domain that restricts public access but enables those within the school to  share and to collaborate.  See a presentation of how one middle school uses Google Apps here.