Comments on: My Proposal to use Google Docs for Online Reporting to Parents

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By: Suggested Reading | Clif's Notes

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By: tbarrett

tbarrett — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:20:23 +0000

@Barrie – the security of the document shared between the children, adults and the teacher would need to be paramount. It is the major hurdle that I need to satisfactorily overcome if this proposal is going to be anything more.

I have found this site http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=60762&ctx=sibling a useful source of info on Google security arrangements etc.

One solution that occurs to me is that the document could be retained amongst the Google accounts on the domain. In other words not shared to a parent’s 3rd party email address and so raising a doubt about protecting that access. The parents could access the document using the child’s domain login – that way only logged in users could access it. The parents’ changes to that document would not be tagged with separate users but that would be a trade off for better security.

By: Real time reporting | milesberry.net

Real time reporting | milesberry.net — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:51:23 +0000

[...] it, something Tony Parkin has queried in Becta’s forum, with disappointingly cynical responses. Tom Barrett’s proposal to start reports at the beginning of the year as a Google Docs page, open to parents and teachers [...]

By: Barrie Roberts

Barrie Roberts — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:55:39 +0000

Great news: someone else using it too. We are using a pilot this year for e-portfolio as with all google products you can easily share this with anyone you want – i.e future employers etc. One question I am regularly asked is: what about Security and the hosting being on Google servers? What would you say to that, I am interested what you think

Cheers
Barrie

By: teachernz

teachernz — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:33:53 +0000

Here in NZ at our school (primary) we send home a “journal” of children’s work at the end of every term (we have 4 10 week terms). The journal includes work samples and specific assessment items from maths, english and other curriculum areas we have covered during the term. I can see that this would translate very well into a combined digital portfolio/report. I’ll keep watching to see how this works out for you.

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Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:06:58 +0000

[...] time around we discussed TeachMeet East Midlands 2009, Tom Barrett’s proposal to use Google Docs for online reporting to parents, the idea and importance of ‘digital permanence’, and much more [...]

By: Helen Barrett

Helen Barrett — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:51:47 +0000

I really like this idea as essentially in the long run I think it will save teachers time and effort. The end of the year seems to be a real pressure point for teachers and often we are reporting on topics that finished eight or nine months previously.

Also, the idea that children can have input or even add to a document makes the report writing process a more holistic enterprise.

By: Wendy Randall

Wendy Randall — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:04:35 +0000

Wow tom what a fantastic trial you are taking on. We have just started working with google docs amongst the teachers in Year 4 and 5 to share our planning. We are looking at using it with our children in class. I’ll be interested to hear the what the response will be from all involved.

By: Using Web 2.0 in schools | Tania Kennedy at UTS

Using Web 2.0 in schools | Tania Kennedy at UTS — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:48:19 +0000

[...] Dan Stucke’s blog post expressed great frustration at Googledocs being blocked at his school in Scotland. Googledocs could be used for online reporting as suggested by Tom Barrett, from England, on his blog. [...]