Tech Tips
March 2017: Volume 4- Number 35
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
You'll find a wide variety of apps, articles, and websites in this issue.
Google Drive Phone App Scan Function
Open Drive on your phone, tap "Add New or +," and select "Scan." Google Drive is free on all platforms and scans are saved on your device and in your Google Drive account.
CamScanner
"Turn Scans into Clear & Sharp PDF
Auto enhancing makes the PDF look clear and sharp. You can easily export the files in multiple ways and sync to the cloud with high speed."
Genius Scan
"Genius Scan enables you to quickly scan documents on the go and export your scans as JPEG or PDF with multiple pages
Genius Scan has more than 20 million users and has won several productivity app prizes and awards!"
This activity is for individual students to use.
Group Work Roles for Modern Learners
excerpt:
"When I was teaching a thousand years ago, I remember attending a professional development workshop on using cooperative learning techniques with students. During the workshop, the presenter emphasized the need for assigning roles to each student so that he/she could contribute to the group work. There were only four or five job roles mentioned at the time, including things like leader, materials manager, time keeper, and note taker. I agreed with the concept of assigning group tasks, but my students didn’t seem too excited about them. It seemed like the materials manager, for example, often didn’t have much to do in the group other than at the beginning and end of class. And no one ever wanted to be the note taker — how boring!
Fast forward to today. As I work with educators doing group work in cooperative learning situations, I am still convinced of the benefit of each person having specific jobs to do that contribute to everyone’s learning and the success of the team. But I believe that the jobs themselves have changed based on the way we now work. So I would like to propose a new set of group work roles as follows. These will work with students as well as with adult learners. I’ve included a brief job description and possible problems that might crop up."
SCS Instructional Technology Information
Contact me if you have any questions or would like help using these tools.
Email: vturner@scsmustangs.org
Website: http://www.strongnet.org/InstructionalTechnology
Phone: 440-572-7067
Twitter: @vturner8