Online Social Networking (Google Groups)

This assignment was really neat, and a fun learning experience for me. I never knew that with a Google account you could do all of the things we did as a group. For our story, my group came up with a story about a little girl named Shirley Curly who loved lollipops. Her favorite lollipop flavor was green apple because it was like biting into a real, delicious, juicy, green apple. One day, she bit into a blueberry lollipop and she became very surprised. The blueberry lollipop tasted like cherry instead of a blueberry. She became very mad and decided to never eat a blueberry lollipop ever again. Although she had said she would never eat a blueberry lollipop, she could not contain herself when she came across a beautiful lollipop dreamland one day after school. The dreamland had all different kinds of flavors of lollipops. The last lollipop she decided to eat and give one more try was the blueberry lollipop, and it was everything she hoped for. I really enjoyed being able to see that we could work as a group to add to a story our group leader started. I think this is a great way to have a group write a story because the teacher is able to see that each student put the same amount of work into the story. I will definitely use an assignment kind of like the one we did in this class, so I know that all the students in each group actually did their part in the assignment. For this assignment, we also made a presentation through Google. I really enjoyed being able to make a presentation through Google. My presentation was on the Five Senses. I did this topic for my presentation because I figured I could use it in my classroom when I begin teaching. It was really neat to see the different things you could do to the presentation through Google. Before doing this assignment, I did not know there were such documents for you to use through Google. I only thought Google was used for receiving and sending e-mails, as well as searching the Web for different items you are looking. I was completely wrong. I am glad I learned about these documents in Google, and I learned how to use them. I will remember these things when I begin teaching and use them in my classroom as much as possible. The NETS-T Standard that I feel this assignment fits under is "Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity". I feel it fits under this standard because the Google Groups assignment made the students work as a group to think of how what to add next to the story. We were able to support one another and use our creative minds to make our story unquie.