Rocks, Snapseed, Google Slides

As a summer experiment, laboratory eight was shifted from submitting a document with ten Rick characterized to a Google Slides presentation with five rocks characterized.

Three videos led off the laboratory on rock types, minerals, and characterizing rocks. Then a presentation on how to use Snapseed to reduce image size, move to Google Slides, and submit in Moodle.

An image of a rock was captured with the Tripltek tablet and then the process outlined in the slide deck was demonstrated on the tablet while mirrored to the Smartboard. 

This variation on laboratory eight went well and made lab eight more useful to the students. During the regular term this will segue to a lab nine labelled cloud images slide deck.

The lab went long wrapping after two o'clock. The last students left at 14:36.

Jonald

Some phones, including a Tecma (Android) and an iPhone 12 running iOS 16 were unable to run Google Lens. The Tecma displayed a message that Google Lens was not compatible with the phone. The iPhone 12 would not display the Google Lens app for downloading. Apple vision was also, curiously enough, unavailable on the iPhone. 

No functional work around was found for the Tecma phone. The iPhone user had to upload their images to Google Drive, then download the image to their laptop. Chrome wasn't available on the laptop, but Microsoft Edge was. 


Erick

Of ten students, nine had mobile phones. One had no phone, no laptop. Images were captured by the instructor, uploaded to Google Drive in the college workspace, and then shared to the student.

Trishia studying a rock, working on selecting five

Nicole picking her five rocks

Clayton and Emars photographing rocks

Rock identification leaned heavily on Google Lens. This term ChatGPT was not used. 


Mary-ellen used both her cell phone and her laptop

Emars has organized and labelled her rocks, as did Clayton to her right

Clayton working on identifying his rocks

In my class the cell phones are out and in students hands. Of course they are occasionally replying to messages that pop on their screens - there is no way around that modern reality. But the students are learning to use their phones as tools. Today they learned to work with Snapseed and Google Slides on their phones. The students will be technologically agile while mobile.



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