Jeremy Hersch on Google Docs
- Here are my notes from Jeremy's session on Google Docs. I LOVE Google Docs, so I'm excited to be here!
- Jeremy strongly recommends downloading Google Chrome as a browser. Me too! Google Docs will work best on Chrome.
- Great because all your files are in the Cloud, which means you never have to worry about files being saved on just one machine.
- It's like Microsoft Office, with Document, Presentation, and Spreadsheet
- The most powerful thing that Jeremy likes is Forms
- Kids enter information themselves into a Google Form rather than filling it out on paper
Corey Bess on Twitter in Education
- Uses Twitter to communicate with kids
- All of Corey's stuff is on http://cbessoneducation.blogspot.com/
- His Twitter account is @coreybess
- Corey has a board-approved social media policy and a mobile device policy
- He has done the research to back up why Twitter makes a difference
- Digital Native - true digital native is 7th grade or younger right now
- Anyone older is really a "Digital Immigrant"
- Mark Prensky's research shows the difference between digital natives and digital immigrants
- Digital Natives think e-mail is stupid
- Corey is all about Prezi--he doesn't believe in "Death by PowerPoint"
- Lots of research he has gathered--good to have his hard data because I only gather empirical data :)
- "Twitter can help build, or strengthen the community atmosphere within a class and potentially within an entire school"
- When you create a school environment that is hostile to technology, you create a "Lord of the Flies" scenario where you put kids on an "island" where no rules apply because we're not teaching them anything about digital citizenship
- Extrinsic rewards are sometimes needed to get kids started learning with social media
- School-wide Twitter
- Culture building
- Scavenger hunt
- Upcoming events
- Updates during events
- ASB Class using Twitter
- Event reminders
- Quick tool to get a hold of all students
- Safe link between offcers/teacher and ASB
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