Most of the students in my Religion class have successfully created a Google docs account and a Toondoo account. This did not work effortlessly for everyone. They were shown how to upload and edit a word processing document in Google docs. They were also shown how to invite collaborators to view or edit their document.
The document they are working on is a scaffold for a Christian Decision Making scenario and model that they need to follow. Each student has invited me to view their document, so I can keep track of their progress at any time. Having looked over a large selection of these documents, I can see that many are almost finished gathering information for the decision making process.
About half of the students took the opportunity to go into Toondoo and explore the resources and the way in which the program works. One of the boys constructed a cartoon that was not appropriate for the situation and it was necessary to have a talk to the class as a whole about the appropriateness of what they present in the content of their work, and about the appropriate use of IT in the classroom.
There is gathering support in the College for screening of the internet (apart from obviously adult content sites) to be lifted so that staff and students can access the many tools and resources that are available. If this is to happen, then there will have to be an education of staff and students in the light of this new freedom. I am hoping that this will make using IT within my teaching easier too!
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