Organizing Projects With Gapps

It’s getting a lot easier organizing projects using Google Apps. Especially when your students can collaboratively add the information themselves leaving you with little to do. We are at the point where instructions such as “create a presentation then get the shared link and add it to the spreadsheet I just sent you” does not need much more explanation.

My students have been working on a collaborative Scratch programming project that includes managing files, creating and working with shared presentations and creating a shared document that contained links to the various project components. The project consisted of ten groups with each group sharing a Google Presentation, for brainstorming purposes, along with programming files. To consolidate the information I created a shared spreadsheet so that each of my student groups could add their group information. Each group added the names and email addresses of their partners along with a link the presentation url and the name of their Scratch game.

We started with the creation of a shared presentation. Some of the presentations were created by the collaborating students some by my students. The presentation was used to brainstorm and communicate within each group about the direction that the program was moving in. The presentation below is an example.

We did not have all of the email addresses of the students from the other school so I had my students add the project information to a shared google spreadsheet as you can see below.

Next step was to copy the spread sheet into a GDoc so I could change the shared presentation url into a link that could be used by all students working on the project.

The final step was to create a shared folder that had all of these files. This kept everything in one easily reachable location and also allowed us to use the folder as a location to upload the Scratch files to.

Little to do for me.