Reflecting Pools

I’ve known about Google Docs, but I haven’t really stopped to consider how I might use the program with my students and colleagues. The program is really easy to use. In a matter of minutes, I made a collaborative online document that my language arts students can use to create a class database of recreational reading books that they briefly describe and recommend. The document will not only inform students about books that their friends have enjoyed, but it will also provide a bit of motivation for each student to read and complete an entry for three books–a reading party with all the frills. We’ll see how this plays out with my lively 7th graders!

I can envision a number of other ways that I might employ Google Docs. Not only might my students create review tools, presentations, and learning journals collaboratively, but I might also work with my fellow teachers for each of my preparations to co-create quizzes, presentations, study notes, resource data bases–well, just about anything! Not only will collaboration be quicker and easier for my students, but for me, too!

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