BA Library Online: Google Classroom and Eric Curts

How is everyone holding up amidst the enhanced community quarantine?
In the Academy, we are on the second day of our online classes. I have sent announcements regarding library services that are available online. Due dates of borrowed books are put on hold. This will be settled when we all go back to campus in April. The feeling of uncertainty is palpable. Flip the coin and there is hope. I put my bets on hope. So, we go on!

Apart from Managebac, we are using Workplace to communicate internally and among ourselves. The library has a group over at Workplace and this has become a platform for micro-blogging. Contents I put together in Workplace are then organized in the library's Google Site. And, some of them, I share in my blog such as this one. A review of a YouTube Channel by tech integration specialist Eric Curts.

For those who favor Google Classroom as a learning management system (LMS) and Google extension apps, I am recommending Eric Curts' YouTube Channel CtrlAltAchieve. He presents simple and easy to do teaching activities. He has a video tutorial on using GoogleForms for Math quizzes and surveys and a video guide for creating Blackout Poetry in Google Docs. The podcasts and screencasts of his talks on teaching with technology and integrating it across subject areas are well curated.   

Eric Curts used to teach Math but issues on educational administration became a challenge. So, he turned to technology to manage the paper work, to design learning environments and embrace change. In this IDEA TALKS, Eric Curts tells his journey of towards technology.  In this video he asks, what is your big blank wall? He tells his story. How teachers, like himself, have difficulty letting go of old processes in light of new and better ones to achieve a purpose. He lends advice on mindful and well thought out approach to integrating technology and presents the value of feedback (yes, it is mentioned once more) as a way of informing the teacher and the learner of adjustments and changes that need to be done when learning online.

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