Rebecca J-L's Blog – August 2013 Archive (2)

Google Apps

Google Apps has created programs that allow teachers to integrate into their classrooms to help students experience technology. These apps can help me be more efficient as an educator by allowing my students to integrate technology into their learning and experience it for themselves. Gmail allows students to have the responsibility of checking their own mailbox (it is always fun receiving mail when you are young!) but has a component for teachers to have an administration…

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Added by Rebecca J-L on August 16, 2013 at 3:48pm — No Comments

Experiencing Free/Open Source Courses

We were asked to search and enroll in a free/open source course that we were interested in. The idea was for us to experience a type of online learning that is available. I spent quite a while searching for free/open source courses. A lot of them that I discovered were through universities (MIT, Yale, etc.). I decided to see what courses they were offering. None of the university courses were educationally related. They offered courses in business, science, math, history,…

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Added by Rebecca J-L on August 12, 2013 at 2:15pm — No Comments