Week 3

One of the things I want to share with you this week is on Google Docs. I am sure many of you already know this, but I did not. We have a project at school called the Creative Dialogue.  This project is groups of students who develop a project together and progress through the project creation over several weeks.  As you know, when you have group projects it is often difficult to know who did what- how did each student participate?  Did they all participate somehow?  Though it is not fool-proof, when you create folders and share them with your students as a place to keep their documents, you can also keep track of who wrote what on the document.  As I mentioned, I am sure it is not fool-proof, but it does reflect the login for each student.  Also helpful is the ability to keep track of the drafts they do. It saves everything based on drafts and you can look at the previous drafts by date to see how they have progressed. So, not only does it save paper as they keep everything on the drive, but you can also monitor- to some extent- their progress and individual work.

In Practical EdTech I saw that they maintain a list of FREE resources for teachers. See it here: http://practicaledtech.com/2014/11/03/practical-ed-tech-tip-of-the-week-importing-quizzes-into-socrative/
Very useful and interesting.

This one is not on my regular list, but I thought it was quite important, whether you are looking from the safety aspect or the privacy aspect: https://www.teachthought.com/current-events/facebook-now-using-artificial-intelligence-predict-teen-suicide/
It uses artificial intelligence and if the AI 'sees' any issues, it connects with first responders. Interesting use of technology, don't you think?