uLearn Breakout 3: Making eLearning Powerful with Google Sites

David Kinane and Marc Rowlinson

Re-mixing eLearning
What works from UK?
Where are you in the loop?

Anatomy of an eLearning task on a Google site

We looked at David's House Challenge

Students explained and reflected verbally

Next looked at character description

Decision tree programming

Each year, start a folder called 'Learning' and share all the children into it (with full editing rights)

Google Site - set up. Students have complete editing rights to the site (otherwise they can't give feedback etc).

Students call anything they do with just their name (eg. Sarah, not Sarah's...., so that you can do a search for anything they do.).

Tools to capture student voice:

Students come up with success criteria, (max 4 things) and this is used to create a rubric. This rubric is used for their commenting.

Here's a basic rubric for primary school (for getting students to read aloud then self-reflect):

Here's instructions - put a slideshow together. Instructions on the first page, text (as pdf) on the second slide etc.

Remember:

Youtube tutorials...youtube.com/user/dakinane

Hard to get parent interest