Reflections on Google Apps training

http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-1 This website is an excellent training module for how to use Google Apps in a school. You can set up email for all of your students and faculty and have some fairly easy to use tools to use. For example, you can set a group of emails for students and set a rule so that no profanity can be in emails, or only allow students to send emails to other students and teachers. It’s free to use, and very easy to setup. Plus, it would be a good introduction for students to learn how to manage an email account. You can teach them how to check email regularly, or how to write a respectful email. These are useful skills to teach, and getting assignments out is easy if all the students are in one email listserv!

Reflections on Copyright

This week we’re talking about copyright issues, and the websites provided are all about good ways to teach copyright to students. One of the websites, http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/03/06/15-copyright-rules-every-student-should-know/, has 15 basic ideas to keep in mind as a basis for copyright. This is a pretty good summary of what you need to know. Another good website we were shown was http://www.teachingcopyright.org/, which is way more student-friendly than the huge list of info in other site. This one has some good videos about copyright would be much better for teaching kids about what they need to know.

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