CSDDocs Classroom Integration

ISTE Standard: Collaborator

To meet this standard, educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems. Educators:

4.a. Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology.
4.b. Collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues.
4.c. Use collaborative tools to expand students' authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.
4.d. Demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning.

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Teachers who integrate CSDDocs into their everyday practice are collaborators because these tools facilitate dedicated planning time for collaboration, as well as using collaborative tools to expand students' authentic learning experiences.

Learning Intentions

• I can explain the SAMR Model and four possible domains for technology integration.
• I can identify areas for technology integration in my everyday practice.
• I can integrate CSDDocs tools to facilitate collaborative planning and workflow.
• I can integrate CSDDocs tools to facilitate engaging instruction.
• I can integrate CSDDocs tools to facilitate assessment and collaborative data analysis.

Success Criteria

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What is G Suite for Education?

G Suite for Education is a collection of Google tools that includes:

Within our district, we refer to this collection of tools as CSDDocs because our G Suite logins all end with the domain @csddocs.org.

Why Integrate Technology?

For the purposes of this module, we are going to look at implementing technology within four different domains: Workflow, instruction, data-based decision making , and collaboration. Specifically, we are going to discuss using CSDDocs tools to leverage our practice in these domains.

The SAMR Model

Technology should be integrated in the classroom in a meaningful way to avoid "technology for the sake of technology." To do this, we must look at what opportunities technology can provide that otherwise aren't available. One tool to help us evaluate the purposefulness of our technology integration is to use the SAMR Model.

We can use the SAMR Model to consider what opportunities our technology choices are providing us and our students:

• Substitution & augmentation are achieved when we make a direct tool substitution with little to no functional improvement (e.g., taking notes on Google Docs instead of a notebook). Since technology almost always offers some functional improvement, substitution vs. augmentation can be hard to differentiate.
• Modification is achieved when there is significant task redesign (e.g., using the Nearpod extension within Google Slides to increase opportunities to respond).
• Redefinition is achieved when the task would not be possible without the technology (e.g., using Google Meet to interview a scientist in Antarctica).

However, it must be understood that the SAMR Model does not represent a hierarchy. Not all tech integration needs to achieve redefinition--sometimes simple augmentation is enough to improve our practice!

Create a single Google Document where you can record meeting agendas and related meeting notes. Use a Table of Contents and or bookmarks to make getting to the most pertinent information easy.

How to Add a Table of Contents & Bookmarks

Whether you are collaborating on IPLC notes in Google Docs or on a common presentation to use for class next week, consider taking advantage of the commenting and suggesting features in G Suite to facilitate collaboration.

Commenting & Suggesting

This video will show you how to leave comments or suggestions on a collaborative Google Doc, as well as how to resolve them. Keep in mind that these features are available on not only Google Docs, but Google Slides and Google Sheets as well.

Tagging Others & Assigning Tasks

Within the Commenting feature of Google tools, you can also tag collaborators to draw their attention to a comment (useful when collaborating with a team), or even assign a collaborator a task.

Tagging an individual is a quick way to notify someone about a comment you made that needs their attention. Once you tag someone, Google will email their CSDDocs with a notification.

(Tip: Want to have your CSDDocs email forwarded to Outlook? Here's how Links to an external site.).

When you tag a collaborator in a comment, you can also check the Assign to box. This will create an action item for your collaborator and will send them an email.

Perhaps you've noticed that, while logged into your Google Drive account, icons listed on the the right of your window. Two of these icons are Google Tasks and Google Keep.

Google Tasks

Have trouble keeping your "to do" items organized? Google Tasks is a basic task manager or "to do list" program that can be access from most Google tools.

The following video shows you how to access and use Google Tasks. While the video creator accesses Google Tasks from Google Calendar (not prevalently used in Canyons School District), you can also find Google Tasks in the same spot in Google Drive, Google Docs, etc.

Google Keep

Capture notes & to do lists, share them with others, and access them from anywhere you can access Google Drive!

Publishing to the Web

When you are ready to share your Google Slides presentation, Google Doc, etc. with the world in a clean view-only format, follow the steps in the video below:

Click here Links to an external site. to see an example of a link to a published Google Slides presentation.

Embedding on Canvas

If you choose the "embed" option when publishing your Google Slides presentation, Google Doc, etc., you can then embed your file right into a Canvas content page!

Sample Embedded Google Slides Presentation

Sample Embedded Google Doc

Google Forms can be used to create observation rubrics for quick observations of criteria, whether that is observation of a classroom discussion or a quick homework check. With a Google Form, it is easy to walk around with a mobile device and mark off what you see!

Google Forms Observation Rubric

How to: Google Forms Observation Rubric

Create a "branching quiz" to provide differentiation for your students using Google Forms. In a "branching quiz," when a student gets a question wrong, they can be immediately redirected to materials that offer feedback and reteaching.

As you meet in teacher teams, you might find that you have one spot for notes, one spot for data, and no easy way to compare. Consider making a place to record all of the above in a Google Sheet! Watch the video below for an example of a Google Sheet where teachers can record their meeting notes and insert data for quick, visual comparisons.

Click here for a copy of the template to customize for your own team. Links to an external site.

Google Sheets for Collaborative Assessment Data