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The Bedley Bros. #EdChat Ep. 7: Interview with Tim Green

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Dr. Tim Green, professor of EdTech at Cal State Fullerton in Southern California, shares his thoughts on teacher collaboration and 1:1 technology implementation. Dr. Green has a great deal of experience working with school districts and teachers to effectively use technology to reach all learners. And have you heard of Google Keep? Take a listen as Tim, Scott and Tim discuss cutting edge education ideas on Episode 7 of The Bedley Bros. EdChat.

Show Notes

Evernote https://evernote.com/

Google Keep https://drive.google.com/keep/u/0/

Quick Tip Article http://www.all4ed.org/files/CultureShift.pdf

 

Bedley Bros. #EdChat Ep. 1: Common Core Research Communities

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By Tim Bedley

In this first episode of The Bedley Bros., Tim and Scott Bedley chat about the research communities in Scott’s 5th grade classroom in Irvine, California. Scott and Tim will be presenting on the topic at the 2013 CUE Conference in Palm Springs. Take a listen!

iPads and Google Drive for Collaborative Writing Instruction

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In this 2-minute video, I show how I am currently using Google Drive with my 4th/5th grade class to enhance my writing instruction. My learning environment is BYOD with iPads. I set up an account through Google Apps for Education. I gave each student an account (and one for me.) The students work in groups with a shared document. They also share the document with me. This allows me to monitor each group’s progress right from my iPad. We use the Google Drive App on our iPads.

Using Google Forms for peer critique

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By Tim Bedley


Students use iPads to peer critique.

Students use iPads to peer critique.

I use Google forms to help guide my 4th and 5th graders through the writing peer critique process. I have created tailor-made forms for Response to Literature, Summaries and more.
My students bring their own iPads to school. The few that do not own one borrow a class iPad. Students sit in pairs around the room with their iPad and recent writing assignment in hand. Each student is given about 15 minutes to critique their partner’s paper. I set a timer for this.
When the form has been completed, students use their iPad thesaurus to help the author enrich vocabulary.
I train the students to do this independently. It takes several times running through things with a lot of modeling and reflection to get the students able to work independently and effectively at peer critique.

You can see my critique forms at my class website.