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I also feel I have not been using the Google Workspace Apps to their maximum capacity. A class choice board on Google Classroom is a great idea. It offers students autonomy and voice with project work which would boosts motivation and engagement.
Our school have individual google accounts for students. Students have a great sense of ownership over their drive, tracking their learning and project work. It also makes things easier for collaborating with peers and sharing docs and slides when it comes to group projects. I definitely thinks it opens the students open to a lot of opportunities to develop their digital learning skills.
A digital story on slides that I would use to remind students about behaviour and responsibilities on returning to school in September.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vt-tUhx0MmKZI9OEYzY3PZf8mxN7qu1AsxpkXVQu8C4/edit?usp=sharing
Workplace tools and Google Meet enhance teaching and learning in several different ways. Over the years, I have used Google Classroom as a means of assigning homework and projects, as well as for students to submit their work. This course has taught me how to use it to its full potential, by exploring features such as the feedback tool, grading logs, and the ability to develop quizzes and assessments using Google Forms.
Google Slides are beneficial not only for providing visual support to students when introducing new content but also as a platform for students to produce and present their research and knowledge. Both Google Slides and Docs are user-friendly, easy to navigate, and excellent tools that foster and develop essential 21st-century digital skills.
Google Meet is a great way to get students engaging with guest speakers. It serves as an efficient means of bringing the wider community into the classroom. Students can also interact with one another on Google Meet, enabling real-time collaboration and helping them become skilled communicators while working on shared projects or presentations.
Going forward, I plan to use Google Workspace tools to facilitate more engaging and appealing learning experiences that support students’ digital development and prepare them for the demands of the modern world and workforce. I also hope to use it to further support my own teaching, by making greater use of the apps’ effectiveness in collecting data from students, supporting both Assessment for Learning and Assessment of Learning, and organising students’ learning more efficiently and effectively.
I agree that google forms is an excellent resource that provides instant feedback so you can be instantly responsive to students progress. It is a tool that can be used to assess for learning, as well as for learning. We also used the Bi Cinealta form during the year and extracting the results onto a Google Sheet made the data coherent and easy to analyse.
I create a google forms that I would use with my senior class during the first week back to get to know them better. The quiz focuses on questions to gage the students interests, likes and dislikes. It is an assessment for learning tool to understand what subjects students enjoy etc. I think it is a good means to get to know students and to have a log of their responses in the one place as opposed to gathering 25 worksheets from the students.
I plan to use google forms as an assessment of learning to by creating quizzes at the end of topics. Again, it is an engaging and appealing means of assessment for students, while also being a efficient and effective means for assessing and recording progress for the teacher.
This was a very interesting read. I like the idea of setting students task that is so relevant to their local area as it makes their learning feeling worthwhile. Using google workspace to allow the students to reach out to the local community is a clever way to get the students using the different apps purposely.
I think an important 21st Century skills to develop is “Skilled Communication” as in today’s world is so important for sharing knowledge and opinions while engaging in discussion. I think I would develop this skill with the senior classes by setting them an assignment via Google Classroom (GC) to collaborate with peers on producing a podcast using a voice recording tool and posting it to GC. I would challenge the students to produce a podcast on how students can reduce their carbon footprint in schools. This provides the students with a target audience for their communication. Students will use google docs to prepare their scripts and document evidence. This allows me to also provide feedback via GC. An extension could be a story board produced on google slides to accompany their podcast. This will encourage multi-modal communication.
I also use Google Classroom often and agree students enjoy engaging on the platform. They find it very accessible and easy to to navigate. Using it to track progress on assignments can be beneficial to way to offer feedback to students.
I also explored this resource and found it to be an effective way of integrating technology, art, and literacy. My students really enjoy using Chromebooks, so the opportunity to create a comic strip using Google Drawings would be very appealing to them. For the first assignment, I would likely have students work in pairs or small groups to help build their confidence and support the development of their digital literacy skills.
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I have been using Google Classroom with my 6th class, but I wasn’t fully aware of the extent of its resources and benefits until recently. I particularly like the idea of using it as a platform for students to track their own learning by setting up e-portfolios. Although I haven’t yet used the grading rubric or Google Forms features to monitor students’ progress, I now see how valuable they could be for getting the most out of student projects and submissions. This would be especially beneficial for SESE and English assignments, where students often produce excellent digital projects that are usually only shared during presentations. Google Classroom offers a great way to keep these projects on record. I also believe that using it to support assessment for learning and sharing students’ digital work with parents can greatly enhance the school’s self-evaluation process.
Create a Community Map is a resource I found under Google’s Applied Digital Skills. I believe it is a highly effective tool that could be used as an extension to a 5th/6th class SESE lesson to explore and research students’ local areas. The activity teaches pupils how to use Google My Maps to highlight meaningful locations in their communities, helping to develop digital literacy, mapping skills, and geographic awareness.
Students would identify and label important local features—such as landmarks, parks, schools, or cultural sites—while writing short descriptions and adding images. I would encourage them to work in pairs or groups, promoting collaboration and discussion. After creating their maps, students could present their work to the class or upload it to a shared platform like google classroom.
For pupils from other parts of Ireland or different countries, the project offers a chance to research and celebrate their own backgrounds, encouraging inclusion and intercultural learning. I believe students would be very present a project on a map of their home town and local community.