Google Classroom
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My name is Camron Faulkner and I am 5th grade teacher at Rosenwald-Dunbar Elementary School in Jessamine County (Nicholasville, KY). Over the past decade of teaching, I have noticed the importance of technology in the classroom and also the lack of accessability to our students. Technology helps to support students' learning and engages them in the classroom community. For these reasons I am seeking to create a learning environment based on technology through Google Classroom. The learning habits of students has changed and it is essential that teaching habits begin to evolve as well.
The Need:
I want to provide each student that enters my classroom with a Chromebook, so that we may create a Google Classroom Community. Our classroom needs approximately $10,000. This will go towards purchasing 32 Google Chromebooks and a charging station/cart.
This is not a campaign to buy fancy new things for myself, but a mission to equip students with tools that will make them college and career ready in the 21st century. When you donate, you will be making an immediate, direct, and positive impact in the lives of many students. These Chromebooks will be used by all of my students on a daily basis to conduct research, write papers, participate in online communities, do creative projects, take assessments, etc.
Why Google Classroom?
1. Go paperless. Google Classroom eliminates the need for hard copies, as you can create online documents, assessmnets, spreadsheets, presentations, and so on, and distribute them to your learners digitally. You can also have instant access to the work of your students, edit it, and return it as soon as you finish. In addition, you can create online assignments that include not only Google Docs attachments, but also web links, and YouTube videos!
2. Collect students’ homework easily. Learners can submit their work digitally. Even if they have completed their work on paper, they can simply take a snapshot of it and submit the picture in Google Classroom.
3. Offer immediate feedback. Instant access to learners’ work allows the teacher to clarify common misconceptions by providing feedback whenever the students need it, that is, after they have submitted their online assignments, or while they are still working on them.
4. Create a personalized learning environment. When working with Google Classroom you can create different classes for different subjects, materials, learning levels, and learning needs. This means that you can promote personalized learning by offering a variety of choices, online assignments, and resources to students in order to address different learning styles.
5. Access Google Classroom from any device. Google Classroom is ideal for mobile learning, simply because you can access it from a web browser on any device, PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, ets. This can be very convenient for all learners, as it allows them to have access to online content from the familiar environment of their own devices and get immediate feedback from their online facilitator.
6. Use the Google Classroom for real world applications. Google Classroom allows learners to easily submit real world material, for instance pictures or videos they take with their mobile devices, and create online presentations that include real life examples that spark interesting online conversations. This way, learners can bring their real experiences to the class and learn how to implement what they are learning to their real lives.
7. Kick off great discussions. Starting an online discussion is a piece of cake in Google Classroom; all you need to do is post a topic or a provocative question to the stream in order to initiate an online forum where community conversation among online learners is encouraged and promoted, problems are discussed and solved, and ideas are shared and expanded.
8. Share announcements. Google Drive in Google Classroom allows you not only to distribute handouts online, but also to share announcements. Your learners will be able to find your announcements by accessing the stream, and see reminders of upcoming online tests or assignment due dates.
9. Provide a variety of support materials. By being able to attach any kind of multimedia to Google Drive, such as videos,audio files, PDF documents, and so on, you can support your audience’s learning and understanding of what is being taught using a variety of resources.
10. Give shy online course participants a voice. The Google Classroom stream may not be as scary as the physical class environment for introvert learners given that you find creative ways to encourage every member of your class to express themselves by asking questions and commenting on what is being discussed.
The Need:
I want to provide each student that enters my classroom with a Chromebook, so that we may create a Google Classroom Community. Our classroom needs approximately $10,000. This will go towards purchasing 32 Google Chromebooks and a charging station/cart.
This is not a campaign to buy fancy new things for myself, but a mission to equip students with tools that will make them college and career ready in the 21st century. When you donate, you will be making an immediate, direct, and positive impact in the lives of many students. These Chromebooks will be used by all of my students on a daily basis to conduct research, write papers, participate in online communities, do creative projects, take assessments, etc.
Why Google Classroom?
1. Go paperless. Google Classroom eliminates the need for hard copies, as you can create online documents, assessmnets, spreadsheets, presentations, and so on, and distribute them to your learners digitally. You can also have instant access to the work of your students, edit it, and return it as soon as you finish. In addition, you can create online assignments that include not only Google Docs attachments, but also web links, and YouTube videos!
2. Collect students’ homework easily. Learners can submit their work digitally. Even if they have completed their work on paper, they can simply take a snapshot of it and submit the picture in Google Classroom.
3. Offer immediate feedback. Instant access to learners’ work allows the teacher to clarify common misconceptions by providing feedback whenever the students need it, that is, after they have submitted their online assignments, or while they are still working on them.
4. Create a personalized learning environment. When working with Google Classroom you can create different classes for different subjects, materials, learning levels, and learning needs. This means that you can promote personalized learning by offering a variety of choices, online assignments, and resources to students in order to address different learning styles.
5. Access Google Classroom from any device. Google Classroom is ideal for mobile learning, simply because you can access it from a web browser on any device, PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, ets. This can be very convenient for all learners, as it allows them to have access to online content from the familiar environment of their own devices and get immediate feedback from their online facilitator.
6. Use the Google Classroom for real world applications. Google Classroom allows learners to easily submit real world material, for instance pictures or videos they take with their mobile devices, and create online presentations that include real life examples that spark interesting online conversations. This way, learners can bring their real experiences to the class and learn how to implement what they are learning to their real lives.
7. Kick off great discussions. Starting an online discussion is a piece of cake in Google Classroom; all you need to do is post a topic or a provocative question to the stream in order to initiate an online forum where community conversation among online learners is encouraged and promoted, problems are discussed and solved, and ideas are shared and expanded.
8. Share announcements. Google Drive in Google Classroom allows you not only to distribute handouts online, but also to share announcements. Your learners will be able to find your announcements by accessing the stream, and see reminders of upcoming online tests or assignment due dates.
9. Provide a variety of support materials. By being able to attach any kind of multimedia to Google Drive, such as videos,audio files, PDF documents, and so on, you can support your audience’s learning and understanding of what is being taught using a variety of resources.
10. Give shy online course participants a voice. The Google Classroom stream may not be as scary as the physical class environment for introvert learners given that you find creative ways to encourage every member of your class to express themselves by asking questions and commenting on what is being discussed.
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Camron Faulkner
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Lexington, KY
