Re: [Phys-l] Social networking for educational use

[Julie Quah <juliequah@gmail.com>]

I use Google.Doc survey form to create a Pre-Lesson Reading report, whereby the student have to respond to a "survey" of their reading. Questions based on textbook readings are posted in this survey form, and students are given a few days before class to read and respond before deadline, usually one day before the class. I can check through the collated responses who has done the reading, when they access the survey form, apart from picking up their misconception before class. Has been very useful in preparing the students (and myself as teacher) for class because they are "compelled" to have some pre-knowledge of the lesson before class. In-class discussion is richer and has become more meaningful.

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On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:09, Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com> wrote:

> On 2011, Feb 10, , at 10:42, Cynthia Retotar wrote:
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> > I’d love to hear from anyone out there that has been using Facebook, Twitter, Google forms or any other methods to teach in the classroom.  I am not leaning toward using Facebook or Twitter in my classroom at this time. My fear is that while the
> > students are on either Facebook or Twitter for educational purposes, they will be distracted by the hundreds of posts from their friends that have nothing to do with my class.
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> I highly recommend viewing the recently broadcast (last knight but one here in the Bays areas)  of Front Line's Digital Nation.  It deals w/ Harvard's (et alia) use of laptops in classes and spying on their users, the turn around of a "failed" ** school, whether multi-tasking is efficient, and, of course, much more.
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> bc watches too much TV, reads too many posts, ad became computer "literate" in 1962, and used a CPU operated MCA (output to an electric typewriter!) in 1964.
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> FRONTLINE: digital nation - life on the virtual frontier | PBS
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> ** note the quotes.
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