CLE Recommendation for Google Tools as an LMS

CLE Recommendation for Google Tools as an LMS

Using a host of web tools through Google Apps collectively assists students at becoming more familiar and confident with collaborative learning environments. For example, Google Drive, Blogger and Sites easily enable students and teachers to collaborate on a variety of learning tasks and produce content on the web. Google Hangout enables students to have face-to-face discussions when class is not in session and these online dialogues can be recorded and saved for later use. Google Forms and Drive allow teachers to create assignments, chronicle students' work, progress, develop assessments, and compile evidence in support of their students reaching the desired learning targets and outcomes aligned with the Common Core State Standards, which will require students to become proficient with CLEs. Nothing ever goes unsaved and digital records of student work are effectively organized so that electronic portfolios can be compiled and shared with the students' current and future instructors, as well as their parents. The portfolios that can be created through Google Apps for each student will assist them in pursuing flexible pathways to graduation, which will become increasingly popular throughout Vermont.

Teachers also have the opportunity to use Google's Hapara to manage all of the student work that Google Apps helps to generate. This provides a streamlined way to organize student work, so in other words, Hapara is an LMS for teachers who who use Google Apps as an LMS for students. My subjective recommendation of Google Apps for Education is further supported by some statistical realities surrounding the groundswell of Google Apps' popularity in the academic arena. With secondary students gaining experience with Google's collaborative tools at school, they will be better able to make the transition into the workplace, where Google Apps for Business will likely await them.

Here are some resources bookmarked in Diigo on the subject of using Google Apps for Education as an LMS:

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