During my last blog post I mentioned that I would like to get into Google a little deeper and explore all of the possibilities it had to offer for me and my students when thinking about project ideas. While I was doing research into the technology, I discovered a variety of tools that would be helpful in doing projects with my social studies students. The Google documents feature would allow students to work on material in class and at home and help to prevent issues of students forgetting homework at home or school and not being able to work on it because they do not have it. The Google sites resource is a valuable tool and would allow students to work on websites at school or at home and is an easy-to-use source for website building. Also, Google provides easy access to video that can be implemented into work, Google Maps is a useful resource for making and implanting maps into documents, and blogger allows students to add blogs into their work.
However, as I have begin trying to implement some of Google's technology into my classroom, I have hit a roadblock. At the school where I teach, Google account access is blocked to students to avoid issues with e-mail and chatrooms. So when I began to try to use some of this technology in my classroom I found that students were not able to get into the Google applications. I read of these technologies being used in other schools and classrooms and wonder what the difference is between those schools and mine. Do other schools not have issues with students using technology inappropriately? Are their ways to prevent student abuse that my school doesn't know about?
Whatever the case may be, this denial of access to these resources has made it more difficult for me to use technology in my classroom...
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