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There are several ways the features of Gmail can be utilized by upper-elementary through high school students. When working in collaborative groups, students can be taught to make contact groups with their team members to easily communicate with each other. These conversations can then have labels applied or be automatically filtered into folders to help organized the different projects they might have between several different classes. These communications can be monitored by the teacher, who is also in the contact group, but has the conversations automatically archived so they don't fill up his or her inbox. This gives the teacher the ability to look back at the conversations if issues come up between the students, or to check on equal collaboration.
As a special education teacher, I often used folders to sort and store emails regarding specific students. I would name the folder with the child's initial and grade level (ie P3), and would move all emails about that child, from parents, other teachers, AEA, etc. into that folder. When it was time for IEPs or just questions in general about that student, I could easily look back at the conversations I have had to trigger anything I needed to address.
I also used Contact Groups and Folders to organize my professional development PLC groups.
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