Digital Technology for Teaching & Learning

              There are many things I have learned through this class. The Collaborative Web Tools in Education course, EEND 676, has simultaneously helped me on my growth as a teacher and on my knowledge of educational technology tools.         The class activities and the course assignments have contributed to the improvement of my career as a teacher. The class reflections and the discussions online have expanded my understanding about how I could apply the collaborative web tools in the classroom. Hearing another teachers’ experiences and knowledge, I learned about multiple ways of incorporating web collaborative applications in the classroom and how various Web 2.0 tools can be used for similar purposes. For example, Padlet, Blogs and Social Media Networking can facilitate discussion forums and collaborative group projects. The discussions also have raised my awareness in stressing the importance of digital citizenship expect...

        Using Google as a Collaborative Tool assignment is one of the artifacts for Collaborative Web Tools in Education course (Fall 2017). The objective of this assignment was to create a classroom task that demonstrated the use of three Google Applications. The assignment required me to respond as a student. For this task, I integrated Math and Language Art subjects for 4 th grade. I created a collaborative assignment which included the use of Google Forms, Google Slides and Google Docs. I instructed students to create and make a survey on Google Forms, present the data on Slides and write a reflection upon the project on Google Docs.          I include this assignment as an artifact because it is an example of how we can develop classroom assignments integrating not only the Google apps functions but articulating the activities across content knowledge subjects (math, reading, writing). When online classroom projects are designed to...