Comments on: You win some you lose some http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/you-win-some-you-lose-some/ Space for me to explore my ideas and experiences of ICT in my classroom. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:54:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Primary Resources Links » ICT in my Classroom http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/you-win-some-you-lose-some/comment-page-1/#comment-2425 Primary Resources Links » ICT in my Classroom Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:43:36 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/you-win-some-you-lose-some/#comment-2425 [...] examples on how you can get incorporate ICT in lessons. He’s also not afraid to post about things when they go wrong either. Tom has created some useful Wikis on blogging with your class and using Google Earth in [...] [...] examples on how you can get incorporate ICT in lessons. He’s also not afraid to post about things when they go wrong either. Tom has created some useful Wikis on blogging with your class and using Google Earth in [...]

]]> By: Darren Kuropatwa http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/you-win-some-you-lose-some/comment-page-1/#comment-2422 Darren Kuropatwa Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:24:10 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/you-win-some-you-lose-some/#comment-2422 Chris, The docs (word processor and spreadsheets) work fairly reliably. It's just the presentation tool thats got growing pains right now ... IMHO. Nonetheless, a back up plan is always a good idea. ;-) Cheers! Chris, The docs (word processor and spreadsheets) work fairly reliably. It’s just the presentation tool thats got growing pains right now … IMHO. Nonetheless, a back up plan is always a good idea. ;-)

Cheers!

]]> By: Chris Bell http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/you-win-some-you-lose-some/comment-page-1/#comment-2421 Chris Bell Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:14:35 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/you-win-some-you-lose-some/#comment-2421 I am in the process of developing a presentation using Google Docs and will plan to have an offline copy based on your experience. Thanks for sharing your experience with us as I am trying to integrate Google Docs into some 4th grade curriculum and want to minimize problems as much as possible. I am in the process of developing a presentation using Google Docs and will plan to have an offline copy based on your experience. Thanks for sharing your experience with us as I am trying to integrate Google Docs into some 4th grade curriculum and want to minimize problems as much as possible.

]]> By: Darren Kuropatwa http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/you-win-some-you-lose-some/comment-page-1/#comment-2420 Darren Kuropatwa Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:58:36 +0000 http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/you-win-some-you-lose-some/#comment-2420 Don't give up on it yet. The presentation tool in Google docs is still in it's nascent stages. It was born about two months ago after being in development (and talked about) for a long time (years?). If you tried this activity again in a few months it might run a lot smoother. I'm not sure if the shared login was an issue but the though occurs to me: How about setting up several dummy accounts so you have a class set. You could start by setting up email addresses (student01@hotmail,com, student02@hotmail.com, etc) at hotmail or gaggle. Use these accounts to create similar dummy Google accounts where you create a class network in each account made up of you and the other 30(?) student accounts. From year to year you just change the password on the accounts so last year's kids can't get into this year's kids stuff. This is a lot of work at the front end, but once it's initially set up it will be a lot easier to manage. Since you have all the passwords and gmail saves all in and out messages it may facilitate your management of the students and their online google spaces. With that one account you get blogs, docs and more where you can always go in and edit things if necessary. Of course, there are ways kids could get around all this but aren't there always? ;-) Cheers! Don’t give up on it yet. The presentation tool in Google docs is still in it’s nascent stages. It was born about two months ago after being in development (and talked about) for a long time (years?). If you tried this activity again in a few months it might run a lot smoother.

I’m not sure if the shared login was an issue but the though occurs to me:

How about setting up several dummy accounts so you have a class set. You could start by setting up email addresses (student01@hotmail,com, student02@hotmail.com, etc) at hotmail or gaggle. Use these accounts to create similar dummy Google accounts where you create a class network in each account made up of you and the other 30(?) student accounts. From year to year you just change the password on the accounts so last year’s kids can’t get into this year’s kids stuff.

This is a lot of work at the front end, but once it’s initially set up it will be a lot easier to manage. Since you have all the passwords and gmail saves all in and out messages it may facilitate your management of the students and their online google spaces. With that one account you get blogs, docs and more where you can always go in and edit things if necessary.

Of course, there are ways kids could get around all this but aren’t there always? ;-)

Cheers!

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