Googlification

Now that we’ve Googlified our class, a few reminders and considerations:

Blogs

• Don’t forget to post your observation reflections and respond to others’ posts.

• Remember to maintain confidentiality by using pseudonyms and/or initials (for teachers, students, etc.)

Calendar

• Your unit review conferences should take place AFTER you have submitted your prospectus but BEFORE Spring Break. If you are working with a partner, both of you should attend the conference. Please bring any questions or concerns that you may have so that we can work through them together.

• All unit review conferences will take place in 236B (Ellie’s office).

• Please schedule your conferences for 30-minute blocks, just to be on the safe side. If you can chunk them so that I have several conferences in a row, that would be great, but it’s not absolutely necessary.

• I will be checking our class calendar regularly—probably a few times a day. However, just to make sure that I don’t miss anything, if you schedule an appointment or observation with me that will occur in less than 24 hours, please drop me an email just to let me know.

• This scheduling process is a trial run for March, when we will hopefully use the class calendar to schedule observations. Please let me know if you encounter any problems so that we can work through them.
  

Docs and Spreadsheets

• These tools can provide a great way for you to work on planning, etc. with your teaching partner. You can both simultaneously edit the same document! And once finished, you can actually publish what you’ve created on the web. Check these tools out if you haven’t already.