Week 3: Collaborations and Small Groups

I've written this blog post in advance as I am away from school this week and soaking up some Florida sunshine with my family!  Hope you're having some fun summer adventures of your own!

Remember that, as always, if you haven't started TECHsploring, you can start anytime--so why not start now?!  One of the main goals of this summer's program is to prepare you to use your division's learning management system with your students in the fall, so you'll definitely put your new skills to good use.

This week, for MS & US folks, we are going to collaborate using a Google Doc that I've integrated into the Collaborations section of our Canvas course.  It's hard to test these things on my own, so I'd love for you all to give this a try.  Log on to our Canvas course for all the details. http://brynmawrschool.instructure.com  As usual, you are not yet able to practice creating these, but I've provided links to tutorials for how you can add these things to your own courses once we have set them all up. 

**Try the mobile app as well!  There are links on the blog to help you with setting up and using the Canvas mobile app.**

For LS teachers, we are going to look at two things: the small groups feature and the reset a student's password feature.  The small groups feature allows you to break your students into groups to share ideas and work online together, and I don't think I need to tell you just how important the reset a student's password feature will be to you!  You, as a teacher of your course, have the ability to reset your students' passwords if needed.  No more log in hassles!  Hooray!  Log on to our Edmodo group for more details.  http://brynmawrschool.edmodo.com

**Try the mobile app as well!  There are links on the blog to assist you with setting up and using the Edmodo mobile app.**

Don't forget that the discussions are just getting started over on the BMS Goodreads group--join us!  AND there's always Twitter for finding fresh ideas and inspiration.

As always, have fun!  I'll "see" you back in Baltimore next week!