DEVELOPING A COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT AND TEACHING ENVIRONMENT

In the Master in Secondary Education Teaching, Vocational Training and Language Teaching in Miguel Hernandez University, we chose to use Google Apps as the basic tool to provide knowledge, resolve collaborative tasks and manage interaction between professors and students. Google Apps has also been used to manage teaching. Several tasks have been successfully resolved with Google Apps: coordination of teachers and teams of teachers collaborative development of teaching materials collaborative and individual tasks for students through portfolios student counseling with Google Groups and Google Hangouts tasks delivery through the environment built by Google GClassFolder Complement evaluation and autoevaluation with Google Forms. Moreover, a complex system of rubrics has been developed in order to provide objective evaluation in all subjects (all of them with several teachers), practicum (with academic and professional mentors), and also in the Final Master Work that students must prepare and defend to finish the master and prove all the skills they have acquired for being a teacher (evaluated by the mentor and several teachers acting as examiners, coming from diverse specialities). A Wordpress blog, YouTube channels, Twitter and Facebook accounts complete the social media used to interact and share documents, news and events during the course.