Hello Everyone,
This week’s session allowed us to
experience working in a collaborative group to complete a presentation
cooperatively online. The presentation
gave us the opportunity to gain a more in depth knowledge on a topic related to
building digital citizenship. In order
to do so, we were introduced to Google Docs, as well as TodaysMeet. Upon
exploration into these tools, I was pleasantly surprised with just how easy and
resourceful these collaborative instruments were.
Google Docs, which I am sure many of you are
most likely familiar with, is
an online word processor that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other
people in real time.
For the purposes of this presentation, I found this to be the perfect tool. Not
only did it make my groups lives easier, but it aloud for some fun along the
way.
I have worked with Google Docs before in
the past, however, never to create a presentation. In the past, I have used it
to create reports with a group, or work together on a spreadsheet. What I found
great about creating a presentation in the drive is that it allows you to
maximize the efficiency of your time. For this presentation, my partner and I
would simultaneously be working in the presentation on two different slides.
Once we were both complete our slide, were would then take a look at what the
other person had created and make any changes we saw fit. This easily reduced
the amount of time spent working on the presentation as it resulted in half the
work, plus additional editing time!
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In order for my partner and I to get in touch and coordinate a timeframe as to when we were going to work on our presentation, we communicated through the tool introduced this week called TodaysMeet. TodaysMeet website describes their platform as such:
“TodaysMeet is the premier backchannel chat platform for classroom
teachers and learners. TodaysMeet
takes great care to respect the needs and privacy of students while giving
educators the tools for success.”
I found this tool, just like Google Docs,
to be very easy and straightforward to use. Just like Twitter, it allows you to
type messages back and forth in a chat room, with a maximum of 140 characters.
I found this to be a benefit of the tool as it made sure you got right to the
point in the messages you were trying to convey, rather then providing lengthy
responses.
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Relating back to my PLE, if I were to categorize these tools I would place them under 2 different categories; those being “Collaborating and Socializing” and “Creating”. TodaysMeet is a tool in which its sole purpose is to communicate with others; therefore, I would place it under my “Collaborating and Socializing” category. Google Docs however seems to fit under both categories. Not only was I creating new content when working in the drive, but I was also collaborating with my group. Therefore I would have to place this tool in a separate section where it could link to both categories.
My RSS Feed Reader…
For those of you who have read my blog
before, you have probably now realized that I like to end off with a reference
to a sports article of some kind from my Feedly Reader. This week, its about the Toronto Maple Leafs
and there all-famous, David Clarkson. Clarkson has recently been traded from
the Leafs to the Columbus Blue Jackets for player, Nathan Horton. The funny thing
about this trade is that player Nathan Horton is severely injured and may not
play hockey again. This means the Leafs may have essentially just made this
trade to free up cap space and get rid of Clarkson…
For those of you who would like to read
more about this story, visit the article,
“Toronto Maple Leads shed David Clarkson and Contract in ColumbusTrade".
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I hope you enjoyed this weeks post!
Take care,
Chris
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