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- From: LaviniaV <LaviniaV AT NGAIWI.SCHOOL.NZ>
- To: "ictenglish AT lists.tki.org.nz" <ictenglish AT lists.tki.org.nz>
- Subject: Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:23:24 +0000
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I agree with Malcolm where he states:
My issue with Facebook is that I use it mostly to interact with my wider family and I don't want to mix them with my students. Google+ by offering Circles allows us to ring fence our students and keep them separate from our friends and family.
If you are in primary, we wouldn't be able to use FB because everyone would be underage
Lavinia Sekona-Vimahi
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From: Malcolm Law <malcolm.law AT xtra.co.nz>
Reply-To: <ictenglish AT lists.tki.org.nz>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:40:29 +1300
To: <ictenglish AT lists.tki.org.nz>
Subject: Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom
Reply-To: <ictenglish AT lists.tki.org.nz>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:40:29 +1300
To: <ictenglish AT lists.tki.org.nz>
Subject: Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom
At this stage we're still looking at exploring what Google+ might have to offer rather than what its advantages actually are. Some of my colleagues (notably in Science) are looking at using Facebook in their teaching although
it is not clear how nor what they expect to achieve. My issue with Facebook is that I use it mostly to interact with my wider family and I don't want to mix them with my students. Google+ by offering Circles allows us to ring fence our students and keep
them separate from our friends and family.
Last year we started using Desire to Learn as our On line Teaching and Learning Environment and I've been tremendously impressed by what the students did on the Discussion Board we set up for Wide Reading. They wrote thoughtful comments about what they were reading and their recommendations encouraged students, still reading the Alex Ryder or Twilight series, to read new authors. I thought that group may have been an exceptional one and so just a blip on the radar. Against my expectations, it looks as if that success may be continuing this year. I'm aware however that less than 5% of our students are participating on Desire to Learn and a common feature of these students is that they don't like Facebook or their parents have banned them from using it. So do we go to Facebook or Google+ to gather in the 95% who aren't engaging? The students are on Facebook, but not (that I can see) on Google+.
Malcolm Law
Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu
On 21/02/2012 7:51 p.m., Hamish Chalmers wrote:
Last year we started using Desire to Learn as our On line Teaching and Learning Environment and I've been tremendously impressed by what the students did on the Discussion Board we set up for Wide Reading. They wrote thoughtful comments about what they were reading and their recommendations encouraged students, still reading the Alex Ryder or Twilight series, to read new authors. I thought that group may have been an exceptional one and so just a blip on the radar. Against my expectations, it looks as if that success may be continuing this year. I'm aware however that less than 5% of our students are participating on Desire to Learn and a common feature of these students is that they don't like Facebook or their parents have banned them from using it. So do we go to Facebook or Google+ to gather in the 95% who aren't engaging? The students are on Facebook, but not (that I can see) on Google+.
Malcolm Law
Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu
On 21/02/2012 7:51 p.m., Hamish Chalmers wrote:
I'd be really interested to hear a summary of what Google + offers that you can't get out of standard Google apps and any ideas on how it might fit in a teaching and learning context. I read the article on circles and am just trying to get my head around how it's different from using email lists. Would love to hear people's thinking on the advantages here.
On 21 February 2012 09:08, Karen Melhuish <karen.melhuish AT core-ed.ac.nz> wrote:
Hi Malcolm and all,
I can't speak for the advertised kit, but there are lots of useful free resources online, such as:
- Google for Educators
- Several YouTube tutorials on how it might be used for education
- Software for Learning's blog in the VLN: Google+ thread - feel free to jump in and ask questions from the wider e-learning community:-)
Anything useful here?Warm regardsKaren
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On 20/02/2012, at 10:02 PM, Malcolm Law wrote:
Did anyone else read this notice in the Education Gazette today? It is advertised as a kit to show teachers how to use Google+ in their teaching.I had considered a trial of Google+ myself, but was put off by the R18 restriction, or has Google changed the Terms and Conditions of use?Malcolm Law<Mail Attachment.jpeg>This e-mail message contains information that is intended for the recipient only and which may be subject to privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the writer and may not reflect the views of Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu.P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. It doesn't cost the Earth to save the planet .
- [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Malcolm Law, 02/20/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Kelly Faulkner, 02/21/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Karen Melhuish, 02/21/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Hamish Chalmers, 02/21/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Malcolm Law, 02/21/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, LaviniaV, 02/22/2012
- RE: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Holly Higgins, 02/22/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Kelly Faulkner, 02/22/2012
- RE: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Claire Amos, 02/22/2012
- RE: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Carol Wright, 02/22/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, LaviniaV, 02/22/2012
- RE: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Holly Higgins, 02/22/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, LaviniaV, 02/22/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Malcolm Law, 02/21/2012
- Re: [ICTs in English] Google+ in the classroom, Hamish Chalmers, 02/21/2012
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