Thursday, April 15, 2010
New Google Docs Experience
Wanted to share my new found love for Google Docs with everyone. In my department we are working together to make a new form to give teachers for our student's accommodations. I suggested the use of Google Docs and got funny looks from everyone involved. Once I explained that it's simply a Word/Excel/PowerPoint document that we can work on together they were more open to it but still confused. So I started a new document today and once they saw it everyone has been giving me great feedback. Theres still a few group members that are working on mastering email but it will come around. I wanted to share this because I get excited when I can use things that I learn.
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This is great to hear that you are using it. Just yesterday, I was able to use GoogleDocs myself. As teachers, we do not have a way to post actual documents on our school website. However, after our cross-curricular trip to DC, the kids are working on a reflection/theme project. A lot of them were coming to me to ask for copies of the assignment sheet, and I wish I had thought of this earlier...I just put it in a GoogleDoc, and put the link up on my website. Now they can get it at home, or when they are working in a different classroom or the library!
ReplyDeleteWe fine we are using it more and more. Check out my blog for some of the new features of GoogleDocs. It's getting to be even more like Word with the ability to add Comments. Sometimes that is useful when you are working on a collaborative project and want to ask questions or explain your changes. One of my other distance classes has been ignoring the D2L discussion to work on joint projects and going directly to GoogleDocs. The one thing that is a little hard to do is to see exactly who contributed what to the project, but they are getting pretty inventive with colored text.
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