My group, Marti-jo, Rich, Kelly, Liz, and I, began discussing organization of our technology links. We have jury-rigged a system that has worked fairly well for us in the past, but was lacking a good way for us to organize and sort through them for ourselves. We decided to list all of our sites under two DIIGO groups - HMS 5th Teacher and HMS 5th Student. The professional links we share under teacher and kid links under student. We plan to label everything with helpful labels so we can search efficiently.
In addition, we plan to organize all of our shared google docs. None of us can find ANYTHING! EVER! So we plan to create shared folders by subject and sort our documents into these folders. In addition we are going to do some investigation into work flow with our fifth graders. We will consider setting up shared folders, naming conventions, doctopus, etc.
Another aspect of our project will be determining what lessons we want for Boot Camp for the fifth graders. We will determine who will teach what and how. This can't really be done until we figure out the work flow. So far we know: email, googledocs folders, desk-top
Karen,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great plan. I like how you are approaching this one thing at a time. Creating a good workflow within Google Docs will make life much easier for your team in the fall. Take time to try things out as a teacher and student and see if that method works for you. Let me know if I can help.
I think you are on to something there and I am curious what boot camp looks like. I am sure the students will appreciate having tech involved in their boot camp, I am assuming boot camp is at the beginning of the year and so right away they will be learning new tech and having fun in class.
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