When I use the workstation in my class, I’m mostly trying to keep the classroom experience consistent and unobstructed. As Moran demonstrates, this usually means planning things out before hand or limiting myself to things I know how to do well already. I most often make use of the following in preparing my course and classes:
- Blackboard/Drupal for CMS and student-facing documentation
- Google Drive for attendance charts, daily agendas, conference schedules, and other miscellaneous, short-term assignments (sharing the view link on BB makes it very easy to import assignments and edit them on the fly
- Word/InDesign for syllabus and assignment sheet design. I never draft in them, only lay out
- Google Drive (again) for drafting things and prepping them for layout
- Sciverner for long-term or (meta) planning for the whole trajectory of the course
- Dropbox for storing readings, and backing up all of the previous things on the list. I pay for storage because it’s worth it.
I was not even think about class prep. at least not in any specific way (probably because I’m so crummy at planning, period). seeing your list is a different perspective, more holistic in a sense. the class as a whole and the technologies you use aren’t just tools that come in lesson-by-lesson but they structure the whole experience for you as instructor, and then that shapes the student experience.
I haven’t heard of Scrivener, I don’t think. tell me more. how does that work for planning?
*not even thinking
I mean.