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15 Minutes a Day: Google Docs Highlighted in CFD’s Tuesday Tech Tips

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Sara Calhoun Davis, Ph. D.
Associate Dean, Education, Health, and Human Performance
Director, Center for Faculty Development <www.cofc.edu/~cfd>

Beth Goodier uses Google Docs and Spreadsheets to enhance her teaching and encouraged me to send out something about the value of this interactive medium. Last week, I attended Mendi Benigni’s (TLT) workshop for us education folks about the same topic, and was amazed at the feedback and collaboration opportunities available with Google Docs. What a boon for teachers!

Wikipedia says, “Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations can be created within the application itself, imported through the web interface, or sent via email.  They can also be saved to the user’s computer in a variety of formats. By default, they are saved to Google’s servers. Open documents are automatically saved to prevent data loss. Documents can be tagged and archived for organizational purposes.Collaboration between users is also a feature of Google Docs. Documents can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users at the same time.” Important for your classroom is that you can track student work (who did it, who did the most work, when they did it) on group projects and papers; changes are labeled by time and person changing the text. You’ll have fun with this one! Good teaching,

Here are some highlights.

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CFD Fall 2007 Brown Bag Lunch Workshops

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Center for Faculty Development
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This fall, our lunch workshop strand will address classroom assessment from meaningful assessment of ourselves to effective evaluation of our students’ work. Other special topics workshops will be announced later in the semester.

  • How to sign-up: Sign up for workshop dates by emailing daviss@cofc.edu so that we may prepare sufficient materials for the group. You will receive a confirmation email.
  • Refreshments: We will provide soft drinks, water, dessert, etc. since our assessment workshops will be during lunch hours. Please bring your lunch.
  • Reminders: Please mark your calendars when you have signed up for a workshop. Reminders will be emailed the week of the workshop.

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  • M, Sept 10 1:15-2:30 & T, Sept 11
    12:15-1:30
    Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
    ASSESSING OURSELVES: PEER COACHING

    Peer coaching is a non-threatening assessment method in which two faculty members who trust one another observe each other on meaningful, pre-selected criteria.  Bring a friend with whom you wish to peer coach. If you don’t have a partner, join us anyway and learn about the process.

  • M Sept 24 1:15-2:30 & T Sept 25 12:15-1:30
    Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
    ASSESSING OUR TEACHING: MOVING FROM TEACHER-CENTERED OR TO STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING

    Want to learn some strategies to support student engagement in your subject? We will discuss some ways we can move beyond the lecture to methods that promote student interaction and active student participation in learning.

  • M Oct 8 1:15-2:30 & T Oct 9 12:15-1:30
    Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
    ASSESSING OUR QUESTIONING: FOSTERING CRITICAL THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM

    Want students to engage in higher levels of thinking during classroom discussions and tests? We will look at just what entails critical thinking in terms of the questions we ask in class and on our tests. Additionally, we will examine some oral and written questioning techniques. Bring your ideas to share.

  • M Oct 22 1:15-2:30 & T Oct 23 12:15-1:30
    Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
    ASSESSING STUDENT WRITING: HANDING THE PAPER LOAD

    Want to use more writing in your course but don’t feel like you have time to grade all those papers? We will share various methods for evaluating student writing including ideas for using writing successfully in large classes.  Bring typical writing assignments or topics.

  • M Nov  12 1:15-2:30 & T Nov 13 12:15-1:30
    Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
    ASSESSING STUDENT PERFORMANCE: DESIGNING RUBRICS

    Rubrics enable us to provide students the criteria by which their assignments will be assessed so that they can self-evaluate their own work and peer review that of others.   Bring course assignments or topics.

  • M Nov 26 1:15-2:30
    Dean’s Conf Room, Second Floor, 86 Wentworth
    REAKING THE GOOGLE HABIT:  INTRODUCING LIBRARY E-BOOKS AND ONLINE DATABASES FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH

    Sheila Seaman from Addlestone Library will help us kick the Google habit and go to more efficient and productive ways of conducting academic research. Don’t miss this one!

Sara Calhoun Davis, Ph. D.
Director, Center for Faculty Development
College of Charleston
daviss@cofc.edu
www.cofc.edu/~cfd