GCE Level 2 Blog - KeriAnn Throne

 In Unit 8, we were shown the crazy amount of interactive sites and tools that Google provides for the classroom! There were the known ones, like Google Meet, YouTube, and Google Earth/Street View. These have been around for a while, yet not always made useful in the classroom. For me, I didn't know that Google Street/Earth have been upgraded to be used in the classroom for students to really understand the world around them. Knowing that my school uses Google Meet daily, I know the benefits of using it to make sure that students are signing into class, attending lessons, and understanding material from a distance. Lessons have been recorded and played back or sent to students who missed class. YouTube live was not something I had thought of. This might be more useful for when we have people coming to teach the class. Google Earth will be useful in social studies! We are talking about the world around us and students don't always know how big the Earth really is. This can put t...

 Unit 6 was all about how to make your students work available outside of the classroom. There was also talk about syllabus, but as a 5th grade teacher, I don't need to use a syllabus. Creating blogs, sites, drive folders for student work was new to me. The ability to create a folder for students to share work they are proud of is mind blowing. Normally it is a full filing cabinet, with paperwork, and making sure that you are not passing back a worksheet that could be placed in a portfolio. Not only that, this allows students to choose what they want in their portfolio. This will be a group of work they are proud of. Not just what the teacher is proud of but what the student themselves are proud of.  In my classroom, I see myself looking into it for conference season. With Google Classroom, there is a classroom folder created on each student's drive. This already houses the work for each student, the only issue is it is not shared with the teacher. By creating the folder, I ca...

Honestly when reading unit 5, my head was spinning. There was more information than I could visualize. I watched the video that was attached and it helped a little, but I am one who learns by doing. I read the whole unit 5 while thinking about the data I could use this for. All the possibilities swimming in my head didn't help my comprehension of the article I was reading. I greatly appreciated the opportunity to practice what I was learning with the challenge.  In the classroom, I see me using this daily. We are a data driven school and knowing the students data off the top of my head has been something I have been able to guess but without definite proof. I would look at all the data, put the major data points into a Google Sheet, and then not look at it until I needed to add the next data point. For me, the reason that I would create it and leave it, is because I would have lots of data points on paper or in notebooks that would get easily misplaced or lost. This was helpful in ...