Google Drive

This week about creating your own websites has helped me so much! I feel great and confident with it all and now I know how to uplaod videos to my website and pictures! This week was a working week and we completed a presentation on google drive.
In our presentation we talk about social media. We found many pros and cons about social media. Many positives we found on socail media were that it improves the communication amoung students and teachers, the students are able to connect internationally, it is easy to access, helps students out with group projects, helps with differentiated instructions, and much more. A few cons that we found were high increase of cyberbullying, big distractions for students, there are risks of viruses, discourages face to face communication, privacy conerns, and a few more are also on our presentation. We found some solutions to all these pros and cons such as you can limit the access a student has to certain sites, hand out a list of appropriate sites previously to the students, establish trust with your students, inform students on cyberbullying with open discussions on the topic and to create imitaion sites for your class.
Everyone in our group was for bringing social media into classrooms and schools. We all believe that social media has a huge impact on learning students and we need to stay current on this topic and teach it to the interest of our students. We believed that instead of banning socail media we need to teach how to incorperate it so that our students use it wisely and not to miss treat it.
There were a few resources that we found for our p1resentation that we enjoyed and I would like to share them on my blog. Hope you enjoy these sites, just click on them and the link will take you straight to their page!
http://www.teachhub.com/50-ways-use-twitter-classroom
http://edudemic.com/2012/09/100-ways-to-use-facebook-in-your-classroom/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQzsQkMFgHE