This week I worked with a lot of programs with which I am extremely familiar. Google Docs is a great resource and we use it all the time at FLVS. Since we all work remotely, it is important for us to be able to share information quickly and to have the ability to work on documents together. I enjoyed working on the projects this week, and I was happy to have the opportunity to discuss these products with my classmates.
My Calendar, Newsletter, and Presentation projects allowed me to use these programs in new ways. I think that creating a dynamic virtual newsletter for our students would be a great way to get information to them quickly. We would have the ability to embed it into our course welcome page relatively seamlessly.
Everything we do at FLVS relating to productivity is based on technology. We have electronic gradebooks, electronic student monitoring, Google Docs, MS Office, Concur Expenses (for travel), and countless other tools to help us do our jobs better. I am very reliant on my Outlook and iPhone calendars. They are the only way I know how my day will go. Unlike a classroom teacher, my daily schedule varies day to day, even hour to hour. My students continually make and cancel appointments, I attend meetings, and I cover other teachers' classes. Without my digital "helpers," I would never be able to stay on top of my day to day activities.
Because I teach online, all of our assessments are delivered digitally. My students complete their assignments and submit them to me electronically. They take a quiz at the end of each module, which is auto-graded. One thing that Google Forms does that our system does not is break down the data relating to the questions. I would love to be able to analyze the data from our quizzes to determine the validity and reliability of the questions. I doubt I could convince my school to switch to Google Forms (we have a contract with our course content designers, after all), but I think it would be very valuable for the teachers to have access to quiz and exam data to determine how effective these means of assessments really are.
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