Another day, more time to get ready. Students show up in just a few more days. Still figuring things out. Built some ramps to send home for the virtual only physics students:
Some 8' corner molding, with some beveled pieces at each end to hold it upright.
For the ones sent home, I marked every 10 cm, so they can do some measurements. Working on a couple of labs for these
Still fighting with myself with the take home chemistry labs. Really do not know the best way to do these, and have them meaningful. So much of the stuff on line is elementary school level or just garbage.
Thinking of having each student have a virtual lab partner for the in class activities, see what comes of that.
Just a little overwhelmed with the number of useful and useless resources for online learning. I am using Google Classroom, and trying to make things work with it, in a way that makes sense, and does not do the same things that other tools do.
There are many things I wish Google did better, such as actually being able to integrate forms with anything. In order to put a video into Google forms, the video cannot be in Google Drive, it has to be a YouTube video. Why? Google Forms are generally a P.I.A., in order to put in subscripts and superscripts, you need to put in the ASCII code. COME ON!! I do like the forms, and use them most every day for the class warm up or as I call it "Do Now", it grades easily and you can set up feedback easily. It is possible to make branching forms, but, you need to sketch out on a piece of paper what you are doing.
And another thing..why are there no native shapes tools for Google Documents. I use google drive pretty much exclusively for my documents. I just want some boxes, circles and arrows. Is that too much to ask?
All these tools, still getting stuff together, just makes for one giant ball of confusion
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