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In Collaborative Harmony: Research Collaboration Orchestrated in Google Sheets/Excel

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Colorado Convention Center, 601

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Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education
University of Delaware
@Rosalyn_Teach
A veteran educator of over 25 years, Dr. Washington is a former elementary school teacher and Reading Specialist turned Educational Technology lover. She served as a Digital Learning Specialist and coordinated Instruct Tech for a school system for many years. Her current position as an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education allows her opportunities to provide a foundation in literacy, inclusion, and pedagogy to a generation of educators. Her areas of expertise include digital tools to support productivity, literacy, early childhood education, culturally relevant pedagogy, curriculum design, research, and data visualization and she has trained educators nationwide related to these topics.

Session description

Need to coordinate your research or have students collaborate on projects and data? Come explore straightforward workflow using Sheets or Excel and Docs or Word Online. Enhance organization skills, allowing you to streamline efforts for students. Discover practical methods for optimizing research processes, from efficient data management to seamless collaboration.

Purpose & objective

Higher Ed Faculty and secondary educators often have busy schedules filled with coordinating research, teaching, administrative tasks, and other responsibilities.
Learning effective research project organization can help them manage their time more efficiently, and interact more meaningfully with student researchers. This session also introduces helpful workflows to aid in the research process itself.

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Outline

1. Overview of objectives (3 min)
2. Researcher Icebreaker (4 min)
3. Discussion of their current projects (5 min)
Discuss the difference between research & Searching (3 min)
4. Turn & Talk: Discuss the need to collaborate on research (4 min)
5. Hands-on: Explore features of Sheets/Excel which aid in collaboration & viewing the progress of co-collaborators. (10 min)
6. Hands-on: Learn how to formulate a collaborative research doc, an annotated bib in Sheets/Excel, and detailed to-do list. (10 min)
7. Hands-on: Learn how to formulate collaborative not sheets (10 min)
8. Hands-on: Explore workflow processes to organize the research process. Hands-on: Learn how to formulate a collaborative annotated bib and other artifacts in Sheets/Excel (15 min)
9: Reflection: In small groups make a plan for how they will incorporate collaboration or workflow into their own research (10 min)
10. Share out of ideas (5 min)

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Supporting research

https://education.missouri.edu/2022/03/positive-teacher-student-relationships-lead-to-better-teaching/

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/authors-update/five-tips-to-make-the-most-of-your-academic-collaborations

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Session specifications

Topic:
Assessment/evaluations/use of data
Grade level:
Community college/university
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Library media specialists, Teachers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty
Attendee devices:
Devices required
Attendee device specification:
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Subject area:
STEM/STEAM
ISTE Standards:
For Educators:
Collaborator
  • Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology.
  • Use collaborative tools to expand students' authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.
For Students:
Knowledge Constructor
  • Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.