Learning is Change

Anyone game for testing out Doctopus/Goobric and Google Classroom integration?

 

Anyone game for testing out Doctopus/Goobric and Google Classroom integration?

Peter Douglas, Jessica Raleigh

Originally shared by Andrew Stillman (Personal)

For folks who have been hankering for some of that old-timey “rubric based assessment” (a.k.a. Goobric) for Google Classroom, I’ve got a beta for Doctopus that slurps Classroom assignments up and makes them work with Goobric.  Would love help testing and feedback on how to deepen the integration!  Details within.

Short version: Doctopus sucks up the visible files in one of your classroom assignment folders, drops them into a Google Sheet, and then lets you work with them (almost) as though they were a Doctopus assignment.

What I'm Learning: How to talk like an Edu-Pirate

I like the code of the Edu-Pirates. I might just be one, in fact.

How To Be An Edu-Pirate | edbean

The Edu-Pirates Code

1. Students First: No matter what education policy requires or dictates, student learning comes first. It may be something as small as choosing to connect with students rather than immediately taking attendance or something as big as refusing to administer a harmful standardized test. To an Edu-Pirate student welfare and learning matter most and they will gladly suffer ‘the slings and arrows of annoyed administrators’ to honor that.

What I'm Learning: We were all Disconnected Nomads once…

I really like the diagram from this blog post. It seems to describe our progress from isolated to connected as learners quite well:

 

A Principal’s Reflections: The Limitations of Being a Disconnected Nomad

It seems like just yesterday that I was a disconnected nomad working hard to maintain the status quo and conform to a rigid system commonly known as education. You see, prior to 2009 I was adamantly opposed to even the thought of using social media for both personal and professional reasons. As a building level leader burdened by endless responsibilities, I could not fathom wasting even a precious minute in what I saw as a perpetual time sap. I swore that I would never be on any social media site and became disgusted when friends and family brought up the topic.  As a result I chastised my friends and made sure that the environment at my school was not only free of this stupid entity, but also other forms of distracting technologies that would interfere with student learning.  It was a powerful combination of perception and stigma related to social media that convinced me it was a product of the devil that could only bring about harm and misfortune. Thus I was convinced that there was absolutely no value in using social media in my life.

What I'm Learning: How to be a nerdfighter video creator

I love that this workshop exists. I want to make better videos, and I want to create them for a real purpose and audience. In other words I want to make authentic experiences with others.

The Nerdfighter Online Video Workshop – Hank’s Tumblr

There are three important ingredients to a good video…the writing, the performance, and the editing. Now, of course, lots of videos have those things blend together…sometimes I write while I film and sometimes while I edit (deciding to put stuff on screen or cut things (cutting is a huge part of writing) or even to go back and shoot something new.)

What I'm using: An App Script to grab all of the folder keys for your Google Drive

I think this could be really useful. Figuring out the folder keys easily means better distribution of google docs and assignments. Cool stuff.

Get Folders Google Spreadsheets App Script

One of my teachers was looking for a solution to pull the folder keys out of the folders created by Hapara so they could use them with other tools like Doctopus.  I imagine this could be helpful with Classroom and other tools as well. To make it as simple as possible, my team and I put together this sheet. Drop it in any root folder and run “Get Folders” from the menu and it will pull the name, folder key, and url for any subfolders.

These are all of the Cam Opener participants in Cohort 1 (or at least 79 of them, as I will add the last few once…

 

These are all of the Cam Opener participants in Cohort 1 (or at least 79 of them, as I will add the last few once they login to their Google+ Accounts). If you add this circle in your dpsk12.net account, you will be able to share videos and ideas directly with them. It will also make it easier to chat and “hangout” with them. Enjoy!