Google Apps-Class # 4 HW

Besides being one of the most dull, boring, monotoned videos I have ever seen, the google apps videos and content gave me an insight into how google apps works. As a "soon to be/not soon enough" teacher, I can absolutly see how google apps can be helpful and practicle in the classroom. This resource allows teachers to chat, IM, and email each other from all across the world. You can create a calander to organize your lesson plans, events and assignments in the classroom. You can explore sites that other teachers have found useful and also share your sites and documents with other teachers. You can find website creation tools that allow you to create websites about your expereinces in the classroom. The interaction between the teaching community across the world and you allow for you to connect with other educators and discuss their findings. Not only does this create a helpful tool for you (the teacher) but gives your students resources that they may have never heard of before.

Lesson Plan #1: Erosion
Disucuss Erosion; What is it? Where do you find it? Why does it happen? How does it occur? Ect. Have the students create a project dealing with their findings with erosion. Create an online presentation consisting of pictures that they found online of evidence of erosion, places, monuments, buildings where erosion is present, facts that they have learned about erosion, investigative findings that they have done regarding erosion.

Historical Novel: "My Brother Sam is Dead". A novel about the American Revolution. This lesson can be applied to both Reading and History. This google app allows the students to discuss what they have read in a blog form, use the helpful activities online about the book in better understanding the American Revolution, sharing their discussions with other students in google apps, write journal entries that can be shared with their peers and students across the world, post reflections and disucussions, work with "writing partners" which are collaborators in DOCS, and allows the teacher to evaluate their writings, thoughts, discussions on google apps.