Student Research and Writing Conference Reflection

     I assisted to the student research and writing conference on wednesday the 26th, and listen to the panels of "Using Technology to Enhance Learning" (1:50-2:20), supervised by professor Frank Flanagan.
 
  The panel was about how to use technology inside the classroom and outside to maintain a effective contact with your classmates and the professor.  They focused more on the use of Google+ and its Google Drive.  This kind of technology gives us the advantage of creating a paperless classroom, which I find good for the environment and, for people like me that don't like to have a lot of paper in my folders, it's a success.  The most intriguing fact that caught my eye was the use of Google Drive to share your work with others, but not only that, they can revise and correct it or edit the electronic paper and when they send it back, you can see all the editing that they did, from erasing a word to implementing a new font.  Even if their was no editing done in the paper it would let you know.

     They use it outside the classroom effectively by maintaining a organize environment because it saves your work and the work given by the professor in the cloud network and you can access it from any computer, tablet or even phone.  Not a lot of professors use this technology even though it is very good for the student and for them.