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This blog is designed to reflect on my experiences with technology integration throughout the Fall Semester of 2010. It is being written in accordance with guidelines given in MEDT 7464 – Technology Integration. Hopefully by the end of the semester it will be a good resource that can be used as a reference tool for my own teaching as well as something that I can share with my department. My goal is to give a thoughtful post to each writing prompt that will be insightful and meaningful. I hope that it will continue to help in my endeavor to increase student learning and achievement throughout my department.

Featured Website

The website I am currently featuring is titled Rubistar. Rubistar is a free tool that helps teachers create rubrics for project-based learning activities. It requires teachers to register in order to use the site and create rubrics. The site also features the ability to make rubrics interactive. The rubrics can be used with Blackboard and Moodle. Users can also download their file to an Excel Spreadsheet. There are also customizable rubric templates that are available. This seems to be a useful site that can help in the assessment of technology projects in any grade level. I have enjoyed browsing through it and hope that you will too!

You can find this site at http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Insights from GoogleDocs

Before our group PBL project in class I had experimented with GoogleDocs on a small scale.  I knew that it would be a great tool for our group to use to collaborate.  I really enjoy the ability to not only create original documents using this tool but to also upload documents that have already been created and stored on a local computer.  This is a great tool to use in order to share files.  I really appreciate the ability to be able to use this again because I am learning more and more as we progress.  I think that this is part of the future of file sharing.  Do you use it?  If so, how do you use it?
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  1. Niki TurcoNovember 14, 2010 at 3:50 PM

    Andy,

    I like you had very little experience with Google Docs before our group PBL project. I thought it was a very effective way for us to share our files we created. I found it very easy to upload files and put them in our group folder. I wish we had incorporated the editing more. My understanding for Google Docs is that it also allows others to edit the work how they see fit. I feel like this would have been effective for our group as well. We could have at least edited in a different color to see what the original editor thought of the changes. This may have added to that collaboration piece. I don't know though how some would feel about that.

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