Thing 16

I LOVE Google Docs.  When I first heard/learned about this last summer or so, I was hesitant to use it. However, I have shown it to a few students and they are loving it.  One student was trying to save things to his flash drive and go back and forth and everywhere.  He wasn't able to save in the correct formats on each computer and it was messing things up.  I showed him Google Docs and how he could use it anywhere and I thought he was going to hug me.

I have introduced this tool to another teacher and she and I are going to team teach a project, or several projects, next year using this tool in all formats.  We are very excited to get started.  The only problem I can see will be students creating their emails.  However, another colleague wrote in her blog, that she created generic emails all with the same password for students to get in.  She created a spreadsheet with these email addresses so that she could refer to them when they forget.   (Thanks, Karen!)  Let's face it, they will forget and if we want to use the tools, they need to remember.  It amazes me that they can text so fast, but they can't remember their log ins.

Personally, I haven't figured out how I would use Google Docs or find a need for it at home, but absolutely am planning on using it TONS at work.

CR