Janelle Shumaker's Blog – February 2014 Archive (5)

The questions raised for this assignment are on reflection of Google Apps for educators.  I have definitely learned about many of the ways that Google Apps can enhance an educator’s experience, but I have also enjoyed learning of new ways to utilize Google Apps in my current job, so I have chosen to reflect on both. 

How could Google Apps help you to be more efficient? 

As an educator Google Apps could make a world of difference with efficiency.  With Google Drive…

I recently researched many of the Google Apps offered.  I wanted to specifically look at the apps that could be used for educators.  Below is a link to the matrix I created with some notes and how these apps could be integrated in the classroom. 

Shumaker Google Apps Matrix

This week the topic in our class was, Online Teaching and Learning.  We had several activities in association with this topic.  One of those activities was to experience a free/open source course.  I chose a course that I was of interest to me due to my current position in marketing. 

The course I took was titled, “Facebook Marketing Rules of Thumb.”  This was a webinar style class and the presenter was Fred Joyal, the founder of 1-800-Dentists.  Fred Joyal has his own blog, has…

This week we looked into the world of virtual reality in education. At the beginning of the week I took the stance that there could be some benefits to implementing VR in the classroom as long as it was mixed with a healthy combination of traditional teaching.  After this week of researching VR I don’t feel that my views have changed to any extreme, but I would say that now I better understand VR and it’s many uses and I could definitely see more potential for it in the classroom than I did…

This week we have discussed social networking in the classroom as well as digital citizenship.  From this week’s lesson there are some things that I learned, some things that have been clarified and some things that I would like to pursue to learn more.

One of the main focuses this week was digital citizenship.  Before this week I had heard of digital citizenship, but never really understood exactly what it meant.  I now know that digital citizenship is considered, “the norms of…