Todd Sutton - Asst. Vice Chancellor Application Services and University Webmaster, University of North Carolina Greensboro; Member of Google's Higher Education Collaboration Advisory Board
Suh-Pyng Ku - Vice Provst, Executive Director Continuing Ed and Summer Programs, University of Southern California; Member of Google's Higher Education Collaboration Advisory Board
Rebecca,
Great work on adding media to illustrate your key players. Great idea! On your question on my section of lesson plans with MySpace: The activities allow students to view the popular social network in-depth and also provide them a way on creating their own safe social network. Personally, I really don't like using MySpace for the way its being used nowadays. Also, professionally as an educator I like to set an example to my students that these networks are basically a waste of students time if not used properly. I feel they need to provide educators with a MySpace link that only will allow them to use during instruction in an educated approach. Anyways, great work so far on your pbwiki topic and can't wait to see what lessons can be created or are developed using your tool.
Veronica Baca
Thanks for nod. I've never been called a guru before. Nicest thing that's been said about me in a while. I see this was posted earlier in the month, so I'm not sure anyone in the class is still interested in Google Apps, but I was excited to hear the topic was discussed in your masters program. For those that are interested, I'm actually the only member of the customer advisory board NOT to be in higher ed, so I can offer some observations about the use by classroom teachers. We are a small, non-profit 6-12 in Boulder, CO. Our hook is expeditionary learning; we are a college preparatory school with a heavily interdisciplinary curriculum focused on semester-long, thematic, expeditions. Technology, specifically Google, has become a huge part of what we do. As I said in the video, we are now nearly a 100% cloud computing school, doing everything (both in the classroom and administratively) without expensive Office products and instead compute fully online.
We are moving our students and our classes to a model with more on-line exposure. This year, each student will create online portfolios using Google Apps wiki program called "Sites". The security is manageable on a user by user basis, and I expect it will be quite useful in the college application process. If you are interested in how some of this might work, check out the site made by our 6th grade teacher Jen Bamesburger for a recent trip by 9 sixth graders to San Francisco. www.sanfrancisco.watershedschool.org.
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Veronica Baca said
at 1:11 pm on Jul 9, 2008
Rebecca,
Great work on adding media to illustrate your key players. Great idea! On your question on my section of lesson plans with MySpace: The activities allow students to view the popular social network in-depth and also provide them a way on creating their own safe social network. Personally, I really don't like using MySpace for the way its being used nowadays. Also, professionally as an educator I like to set an example to my students that these networks are basically a waste of students time if not used properly. I feel they need to provide educators with a MySpace link that only will allow them to use during instruction in an educated approach. Anyways, great work so far on your pbwiki topic and can't wait to see what lessons can be created or are developed using your tool.
Veronica Baca
Cory Pavicich said
at 11:06 am on Jul 20, 2008
Hello Rebecca!
Thanks for nod. I've never been called a guru before. Nicest thing that's been said about me in a while. I see this was posted earlier in the month, so I'm not sure anyone in the class is still interested in Google Apps, but I was excited to hear the topic was discussed in your masters program. For those that are interested, I'm actually the only member of the customer advisory board NOT to be in higher ed, so I can offer some observations about the use by classroom teachers. We are a small, non-profit 6-12 in Boulder, CO. Our hook is expeditionary learning; we are a college preparatory school with a heavily interdisciplinary curriculum focused on semester-long, thematic, expeditions. Technology, specifically Google, has become a huge part of what we do. As I said in the video, we are now nearly a 100% cloud computing school, doing everything (both in the classroom and administratively) without expensive Office products and instead compute fully online.
We are moving our students and our classes to a model with more on-line exposure. This year, each student will create online portfolios using Google Apps wiki program called "Sites". The security is manageable on a user by user basis, and I expect it will be quite useful in the college application process. If you are interested in how some of this might work, check out the site made by our 6th grade teacher Jen Bamesburger for a recent trip by 9 sixth graders to San Francisco. www.sanfrancisco.watershedschool.org.
Best!
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