App Practice: Students Scribe

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"The Apps for using scribe" means using technology to write documents, especially as collaborative works. In the book "Who owns the learning?", the author Alan November introduced the Digital Learning Farm, which showed effective ways to integrate technology with education in the classroom. If students engage more by creating tutorials for other students, collaborating with scribing will increase their participation by producing shared notes. These are the benefits offered by the process of creating shared notes.

• Students will be better at synthesizing information into ideas
• Students will learn important skills in collaborating, communicating, organizing, writing and critical thinking.
• Students will enjoy producing shared notes. 

As a bad hand writer myself, I've always struggled to make the note neat as possible, but still I felt it was not enough to show to other people. However, after I took this Edu 614 course, I poured out my energy to create something new, better and beautiful to use and was amazed by the possibility of technology for students. Note-taking will be a great project that everyone can participate, and every voice will be heard.

However, there are one thing I've concerned about taking a note using apps.  I wrote something on the blog page, I felt it was more like making a magazine then note-taking. I could see the comments, but it was like grading by other people. If a teacher want to use technology as a scribe tool in the class, he/she needs proper apps, and a skill for that app.

 The Youtube video that professor Seavey posted ""Why Chris Penna Uses Google Docs vs. Wikis for collaborative writing" I was convinced using Google Docs is better for me then wiki for students using as a scribe tool.  Chris Penna said, wiki is more like a web page rather then a document.

Ex) First, Students will make drafts of their writing using Google Docs in their literature class. To show how to use Google Docs, I'll use my son's readers response journal for his class.

In the classroom, a teacher will use Google classroom in his/her Google Drive.

Clicking the "NEW" icon, the teacher will see the Google Docs.

For collaborative work, the teacher will make a group with two students and each group will have different questions for their paper. The group of students will write the draft though the lesson, and between lessons, they will have time to correct or add their thoughts together.  For example, they will editing together like the paper down below, and the teacher can make comments of their work.  (The Yellow-Highlight parts are on the comments that the teacher has made.)

If they can't finish their work in the class, they can do it at home, adding more details. If the teacher wants to check who are participating and did their works, there is "See version history" section.

With dates, times,  and Students' work history, the teacher can check and provide comments or reinforce about parts of the lesson.

After they make their finals, try to use Voki classroom app, if possible,

- Voki classroom is an app that students can create a character, and make it speak by adding a voice message from a phone or microphone. Students can summarize and communicate with extra fun.

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