This site houses a self-paced, self-directed training to aid you in integrating Google Drive to foster collaboration in your classroom. Students increasingly need to master 21st Century Skills to be competitive in the work-place. Google Drive offers multiple ways for you to further these skills within the context of your subject-area. By integrating activities that employ technology and encouraging collaboration you can deepen your students thinking, build their technology skills and even make your own job easier! Now, lets get started.
Before continuing with this training, you should first set your own objectives. Some reflection questions and resources are provided below to help you with this process.
Which 21st Century skills can be easily integrated into your classroom?
What do you want technology to help you do?
How would you like your students to employ technology?
What is the ideal project for collaboration you already employ? How would you like to integrate technology into this project?
How do your students currently share their presentations or publish their work?
Is there any activity you use that could be improved with increased collaboration?
Links to Resources
Tips for Integrating Technology
General Tips for Collaboration
If you have questions, would like to meet to discuss any aspect of this training, or would like to email your goals or work to me, you can contact me at acarlyle@naacharter.com or acarlyle@naacharter.org. I will help you in any way I can.