Google classroom
On 3rd July
2020, classes resumed for student teachers of final year after a long break. We
had our first class on ICT. During that class, discussion was on how to
integrate Google classroom in learning. From the discussion I knew that Google
classroom is creating online classroom
platform where both teacher and
students can interact. In this classroom page teachers can post assignments,
materials related to particular topic and can initiate the discussion. As we go
on discussing more on this online classroom, it was understandable as it is
similar to vle forum (virtual Learning Environment). They share many of the
similar features like in both, materials can be uploaded and downloaded, can
conduct test or quiz and also there can be a discussion forum.
There are many things
that I have learnt about this online platform such as, it consist of three main
separate tabs of stream, classwork, and people.
Stream focus on announcement and classroom discussion. On this tab
students can see the notifications for new assignments. The classwork page
provides teachers with a space to post assignments, raise questions and post
resources related to the topic and can also set quiz forum. The people page
provides a hub for adding and deleting students, parents and teachers.
From the practical
session on this topic Google classroom, I felt that, this is a great tool to be
used in present situation of Covid-19 because is same like learning in real
classroom and learning will be more fun , at the same time students can explore
more on this online learning system. There are many other interesting things
like if I post an assignments with a due date, it’s automatically added to the
class calendar for students to see. If
my students have regular accesses to this online class then it will help me to
cut down photocopying of teaching resources as my teaching will be paperless.
And more over students can communicate with teacher and their peers by sending
emails, post to the stream and private comments on assignments and provide
feedback to each student about their assignments.
After exploring Google
classroom, I felt that we can save a lot of time and energy and can make
learning more effective with integrating ICT.
Photos of different tabs in Google classroom
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