Week 7: Cloud Computing

This assignment makes me happy.  I have already done sharing of google docs, so this process makes sense to me.  I'm glad the assignment forced me to figure out a few new things, like making the link public.

Here is a link to a list of vocabulary for my 5th grade art students.  I shared it with our Info Lit teacher last year, because we collaborated on the first unit of 5th grade art.  It is the plan to do the same this year.  Now I have shared it with two of our homeroom teachers, they might see connections between art vocabulary and other subjects.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qbAzkZ3avm9Jvo18mDJ4S9hLzoD2BsI_t5lIAWWQqOE/pub

I enjoyed the video in the SummerCamp 2.0 blog that explains how google docs is better than attaching things in emails.  That would be a good video to show in a staff meeting to help people to understand how it works. I found it helpful when I have a student teacher to have our lesson plans in google docs so we can both comment and edit and not wonder which version is current.  I could see this as a better way to collaborate with other art colleagues in the district about district curriculum and lesson sharing.

One way I could use this with my students: Students could start an artist's statement document that they edit throughout the year.  They could add photos and information about ideas they want to explore in their art.  I could add comments about how they could adjust the assignments to include some of those ideas.  This would have to be an extra credit thing.  There is no way I could comment on everyone's.  They could share it with another student or another adult so they could at least get comments from someone.  I would set a number of documents that I could look at each week.  Oh my.  What have I done?  I have just added another couple hours to every week of the school year, that is what.  Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, isn't it?  I will need to let this idea percolate for awhile.