Google Groups

While creating my VLE, I came across Google Groups and found it an easy, user friendly website to create a forum for my students (Below).

 

The forum enabled me to pose questions to my learners to encourage deeper thought from the learners and create discussion between peers for ideas for activities and assignments. Reece and Walker (2007) explains the benefits of forums stating they provide an opportunity for both real time on going  learning and accessible anytime and an opportunity for an both a structured and unstructured conversations between students and teachers and students.

Forums can be created for the whole class or specifically for groups to complete tasks and activities, proving fuller and development of answers.

Overall, I found Google Groups a very valuable resource and a good tool both for teaching and learning and will try and continue to develop my knowledge and gadgets of the site.

Bibliography  

Reece and Walker (2007) Teaching, training & learning A practical guide, Business Education Publishers Limited, Tyne and Wear.