When I met my class again, I was able to share with them that I hadn’t paid close enough attention that week but that I had in fact noticed what happened, that it should never happen again, and that I’d be paying closer attention from then on. I mean, it really threw me for a loop at first, but once I got past the initial shock I was able to roll my eyes at the things kids will do and think clearly about how to keep it from happening again. In this situation, actually, 100% KNOWING that they had goofed off and wasted our class time for a whole week, I felt strangely more able to be rational about it. The funny thing for me is that back when I used to WONDER and SUSPECT that my students were goofing off, I felt more helpless and therefore more upset. So what happens next when teachers have a situation like this? There are a lot of approaches, including the stern approach, the exasperated approach, the “I give up” approach, etc. This meant that his document had also been edited by someone else. The red icon in Lonnie’s row caught my eye. The first thing I noticed on the left side was that in general students had spent a reasonable amount of time editing their first draft organizers.
Things had been going really well that year, and I felt like everybody was on track and productive, so for an entire week of essay-writing time, I relied on the general appearance of productivity and just focused on the students who came to my desk without ever checking Classwork Zoom.Īs I was grading those essays the next week, I pulled up a timeline to get a more complete sense of each student’s effort and engagement, and I was really surprised. It’s all real data, but the names have been changed. To illustrate what Classwork Zoom can do, I’ll start with the story of a week in recent years when I DIDN’T use it.
It was very well received, and I was encouraged to continue development. Three years after my first Google Summit, I returned to Chadwick for a second one and presented Classwork Zoom at the demo slam. I kept my eyes open for over a year, but when nothing really gave me what I was looking for, I found a development team, and we got to work on building the Classwork Zoom Chrome extension to display information from the revision history… I felt sure that there must be an extension or some other kind of tool to serve that information up conveniently to teachers at a glance.
By that time I had already been using the revision history of Google Docs to check out my students’ work, but it was easy to get lost in all the details. That’s where I first learned about Google Chrome extensions and the handy things they could do. In 2015, I went to a Google Summit at Chadwick International School in Korea.
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