Initial Blog Training

Objectives:

• To learn how online environments can enhance the learning experience of our students
• To learn to set up a blog to use as a communal exercise book

Task 1:

Click on the link below to download the first activity. Drag the cards to sort them according to which activities are purely paper based and which can be completed online:

Starter Activity

Task 2:

Write a comment on this post which explains, in your opinion, what the biggest drawbacks to online learning might be.

Task 3:

Read the comments posted by others and write a new comment which offers a counterargument to one of them.

Google Apps: Initial Training Session

Objectives for today:

• To learn the benefits of Google Apps and to access your account
• To learn to create collaborative documents
• To learn to link these documents to your blog

 Task:

We are going to collaboratively create an excel spreadsheet which evaluates the impact of Christmas festivities on your health. Click on the link below to access the spreadsheet and then fill in the row next to your name scoring yourself out of 10 in each area (10 being the best and most healthy) and then, in the final column, set yourself a new year's resolution!

Collaborative Excel Document

You can download a colour version of today's handout by clicking on the link below:

Handout