Amanda Ripley is an author and reporter. In this presentation she has some interesting insights as to why other countries have children who perform better on the PISA critial thinking test.
In the Intro To EdTech class, my students had to present a final project showing two different technologies they had researched during the course. I made an example presentation (here) showing two technologies I had used this semester. I also created a video showing the process I went through to make my example presentation. Below is that video. I hope it helps you make better presentations.
We use Google Apps For Educators (GAFE) in many of our classes at The University of Findlay. Due to the popularity of Gmail, many students already have a person Gmail account in addition to the GAFE account through The University.
When I share a document with a group of students, I end up getting a flurry of emails that look like this.
Request to share
Edtech Class Document
You are the owner of this item and StudentPersonalAccount@gmail.com has asked that you share this item with:
StudentPersonalAccount@gmail.com
Add these people in Sharing settings.
I share the documents with the student’s UF account, but the student is logged in with a personal account. I have setup a shortcut to the UF login page
Going through the UFNet login is complicated. We don’t actually use Gmail for UF email. Because it takes between four and six clicks, it is easy to get into a loop before getting logged into UF’s network.
Google has a fix for this problem. Using the Google Account Chooser, you can tell Google to permit multiple accounts to access one account’s files.
https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser
Add your personal and school accounts to the list and both will be able to access documents without the bother of the login loop.
