Teacher's Guide to Using Shared Google Docs with Students

Sharing is caring and one of the powerful features of Google Docs is sharing.As we have seen in 8 Things Every Teacher should be Able to Do with Google Docs , users can easily share documents, presentations, tables, graphs, and spreadsheets by simply changing the visibility options in the sharing settings of Google Docs. But what if you want to aggregate all your docs in one document and share it with others ( probably your student) ? Shared Google Docs has the answer answer for you. What is Shared Google Docs ? Shared Google Docs ( or Drive, I am not used to call it Google Drive and I Like its old name Google Docs ) is a feature embedded within Google Docs' services that allows users to create folders to share with other users. How can I use Shared Google Docs with my students ? Here are some of the ways to use this feature with your students : Create a shared folder for your class. How can I create a shared Google Docs ? Here is how you can do it :

Eye-Catching Views of Population As is often the case, we go back through resources we've collected before with a different lens, not realizing the power of data visualizations such as The Miniature Earth Project , Who is the World's Most Typical Person? , and Breathing Earth . Each of these is not new, yet they are eye-catching presentations of images, data, and design. The clarity and the simplicity in the use of information mixed with sound, be it music or sizzling emissions, coalesce into an effective message. Their delivery engages the viewer to think and ask questions, and our students are fascinated by each one. The Miniature Earth Projec t video breaks down what the earth's population would look like if it were reduced in size to a community of 100 people. A nice complement to this visualization is the children's book If the World Were a Village by David J. National Geographic's " Who Is the World's Most Typical Person ?" One of our student's favorite websites is Breathing Earth .

Killer Infographics Integrate iPads Into Bloom's Digital Taxonomy With This 'Padagogy Wheel' You’re going to want to turn on your printer and fire up a PDF viewer. This is just that good. It’s called the Padagogy Wheel and it offers a fantastically useful perspecitve on how to figure out which iPad apps work with Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. Created by Allan Carrington, this thing is a monster and deserves some focused attention. So I’d make a personal plea to save the hi-res image (below) or print out the PDF (available here) and then spend your long weekend closely examining this thing. The Padagogy Wheel takes an expanded approach Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and offers 62 iPad apps that fit into the organized chaos that is Bloom’s. See Also: 35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom’s Taxonomy What do you think of some of the apps and where they’re placed on the wheel? The Padagogy Wheel by Allan Carrington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Edmodo – Where learning happens. | The free and safe social learning platform for education TimeRime.com - Homepage The 5 Best tools for checking Plagiarism — CSCampus Inc. There are many tools available on the internet from where you can easily detect Plagiarism and/or duplicate content. In this post we'll see 5 of the best tools, which can help you to easily detect plagiarism or duplicate content. 1. Copyscape Copyscape is ranked no. 1 in the world and it is the most popular online plagiarism detector. 2. CopyGator is another free tool for checking plagiarism. 3. Duplichecker is an another free service where you can check unpublished content by adding an article or by browsing and uploading a text file into the search box. 4. Plagiarisma allows you to check duplicate content in 3 ways. 5.

How Has The Internet Changed Education? User Rating: Details Published on Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:14 Written by Sahiba Pahwa Hits: 106 How Has The Internet Impacted Education? Internet that started as a discovery to view and share some private files over an organization has now spread its wings to all over the world. Surely there has been a lot of changes internet has brought in the growth and evolution of education. Though social media like any other thing has pros and cons but today, over 90 percent of the faculties are using social media in courses they’re teaching. As the times have changed people’s preferences have also changed, where before they liked the usual written material and learning through class walls now only 1 out of 3 academic leaders consider online learning inferior to face to face instruction and 8 out of 10 faculty report using online video for class. Gradually many colleges and universities are offering online courses. Not only the students but the teachers and faculties also use online sources. Img Src

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