525--Session 7-Creating Online Tutorials

Hello again and welcome to Session 7!

This week we will be learning how to create our own online tutorials.  There will not be any session link.  All the assignments will be below.

Now, some of you have asked to have the content slowed down a bit, so I have dropped a gear or two for Sessions 7 & 8.  Now, over the next two days I'd like you to choose one of the four Google Classroom Certification steps (Creating w/G, Using G to Share Your Work, Building a Coll. Classroom w/G...) and discuss (in our blog comments) one (or more) of the resources within that step that you feel is the most practical for your particular 'future' occupational/adult education setting.  You'll have to sign up for a free account with Sophia, so when you get to that screen choose to log in using your Google 'personal' account, not the URI Google account.

For example, in Section 2 of the tutorial, one of the resources is, "Using Google to Share Your Work."  You'll notice that we sometimes use YouTube videos in our class.  Let's say you have a YouTube account (assigned this week on the syllabus) and you want your class to easily find videos that you have made and collected that would help with your class.  You could 'publish' your videos, then add them to a 'channel' aka 'playlist' and give your class access to this list.  This is just a small example.  We'll go into more details below.

I'd like you to think about these questions when writing your reflection for this week (focusing on a specific resource covered over week 7), post it to the blog comments below, and then revisit the blog over the next 7 days and 'reply' to your peers' reflections.

Also, we have some new Facilitators this week: Maegan, Jacquie, Lisa, and Zack.     Thank you Gayla, Tyron, and Tyler for your work contributing to the conversations during Week 6 and helping us move deeper with our understanding of the content and perspectives.

Questions to consider in our discussion threads this week:

1. How could you use a Google tool to promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness?
2. Reflect on how this tool will help you address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources.
3. How could you use a Google tool to promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative process and participate in local and global earning communities to explore creative applications of technology to improve student learning?
4. Additionally, Google products are not the 'be all--end all', so if you have another tool or resource that you think will work better, then please share it with the group when commenting on #'s 1-3 above or in your 'reply' to others.

Lastly, nearly all of you will be incorporating 'pre-created videos' from others within your future occupational setting, so it's important you know a little about the 'behind-the-scenes' details with the largest video storage site in the world.

 (Optional)Please go through these four lessons created by the "YouTube Creator Academy" about how YouTube really works.

Now I realize that the above assignments may take up a lot of your time over the next week, but if you want even more depth, then you may review these links to deepen your learning on these topics.  If you are too busy, then please make a note that these resources are here so you may access them some day in the future, even after our semester is over.

Good Luck this week!  Please pace yourself and try to have fun.  As always, I look forward to reading and engaging with you through our discussions.

Where to go for more information if you'd like more depth over the course of this week:

• Classroom in the Cloud
• Educators Technology and Mobile Learning
• Gone Google
• Google Gooru (you may need to open this in Internet Explorer)
• ​The Google Classroom.com

Good Luck this week!  Please pace yourself and try to have fun.  As always, I look forward to reading and engaging with you through our discussions.
PS-If anyone is interested in reading the comments from your peers last year about S7's content, then you may access them here.