Let’s Use Google Docs…

The following links to Google Docs show how to use Google Docs both to work collaboratively on projects as well as for storing and submitting your work to your teacher. I will use Google Docs to store worksheets and class notes which you can download at home. You can store your essays, PowerPoint’s and projects and then send me the links to check them out.

Follow these links to discover the HOW TO part of Google Docs.

Google Docs for Teachers and Students

Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online

Share and collaborate in real time

Safely store and organize your work

Control who can see your documents

This will be a learning experience for us all! Lets enjoy the ride!

Get Started

Let’s Use Google Docs…

The following links to Google Docs show how to use Google Docs both to work collaboratively on projects as well as for storing and submitting your work to your teacher. I will use Google Docs to store worksheets and class notes which you can download at home. You can store your essays, PowerPoint’s and projects and then send me the links to check them out.

Follow these links to discover the HOW TO part of Google Docs.

Google Docs for Teachers and Students

Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online

Share and collaborate in real time

Safely store and organize your work

Control who can see your documents

This will be a learning experience for us all! Lets enjoy the ride!

Get Started

Let’s Use Google Docs…

The following links to Google Docs show how to use Google Docs both to work collaboratively on projects as well as for storing and submitting your work to your teacher. I will use Google Docs to store worksheets and class notes which you can download at home. You can store your essays, PowerPoint’s and projects and then send me the links to check them out.

Follow these links to discover the HOW TO part of Google Docs.

Google Docs for Teachers and Students

Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online

Share and collaborate in real time

Safely store and organize your work

Control who can see your documents

This will be a learning experience for us all! Lets enjoy the ride!

Get Started

Dr. Rod Blog goes BETA – Google Docs

There are a number of things I refer to on this blog. Many are worksheets and handouts used during the class and for homework. I have tried to create graphics of the worksheets but now want to experiment with down loadable documents using Google Doc.

Hopefully I can post articles and assignments and then link the resources for those assignments back to a down loadable version in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint format. As many of our students use their mobile phones to connect to the Internet through the school’s wireless network, this will allow them to download the resources and carry them in their PDA.

I will write a tutorial for the service once we initiate it this weekend (April 19 – 20.)

Over the next month we will experiment with this. Please give me your feedback.

Dr. Rod Blog goes BETA – Google Docs

There are a number of things I refer to on this blog. Many are worksheets and handouts used during the class and for homework. I have tried to create graphics of the worksheets but now want to experiment with down loadable documents using Google Doc.

Hopefully I can post articles and assignments and then link the resources for those assignments back to a down loadable version in Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint format. As many of our students use their mobile phones to connect to the Internet through the school’s wireless network, this will allow them to download the resources and carry them in their PDA.

I will write a tutorial for the service once we initiate it this weekend (April 19 – 20.)

Over the next month we will experiment with this. Please give me your feedback.

The rationale for Google Docs in school.

I found this interesting article from another teacher who is using Google Docs with his classes. Both the students, who work in groups as well as the student and teacher, use Google Docs to enhance the learning process. Here is the article in full.

I’ve noticed a growing trend in my classroom over the last few months. More and more kids are moving over to using Google docs and their blogs as a place to complete their written assignments.

I don’t usually care where kids work. When they are on the computers we have access to, they used to most often use Word and then email things back and forth to home every night so that they could continue working. This was more difficult if they didn’t have Word at home. It invovled a process of cutting and pasting and fixing formatting errors each time they did this.

But over the last few months, I’ve noticed the kids in my class have made a dramatic move to Google docs. Using Google docs they can work at school or at home much more easily. But they are moving there for other reasons as well, the biggest one being that they can simply share their work with me and with other kids in the class. For example, my students are currently writing a short, one page essay on a topic of their choice to do with life in ancient Egypt. They’ve chosen a wide variety of topics ranging from the Nile to make – up and dress, boats, farming techniques, and much more. I keep the formal essays that they need to write short, being much more interested in having students learn to write a set of coherent paragraphs and an interesting introduction and conclusion than I am in quantity. It’s not hard to write lots. It’s hard to write well.

But with these pieces, these students are more often sharing them with me so that I can help them with revisions and specific paragraphs. They will share their document with me so that I can write suggestions and ideas for them and then save them for them. The same is true among each other. As students have been working on topics that may occasionally overlap (“What kind of clothing did the farmers wear?”) students are sharing their pieces with each other. I don’t consider this to be wrong or plagarism of any sort. I consider this to be knowledge networking and making use of the resources n the classroom. It’s called learning from each other.

So they are learning the benefits of these types of social, online software. I gives many of them access to the same platforms and it allows the knowledge to flow more easily around the classroom.

The rationale for Google Docs in school.

I found this interesting article from another teacher who is using Google Docs with his classes. Both the students, who work in groups as well as the student and teacher, use Google Docs to enhance the learning process. Here is the article in full.

I’ve noticed a growing trend in my classroom over the last few months. More and more kids are moving over to using Google docs and their blogs as a place to complete their written assignments.

I don’t usually care where kids work. When they are on the computers we have access to, they used to most often use Word and then email things back and forth to home every night so that they could continue working. This was more difficult if they didn’t have Word at home. It invovled a process of cutting and pasting and fixing formatting errors each time they did this.

But over the last few months, I’ve noticed the kids in my class have made a dramatic move to Google docs. Using Google docs they can work at school or at home much more easily. But they are moving there for other reasons as well, the biggest one being that they can simply share their work with me and with other kids in the class. For example, my students are currently writing a short, one page essay on a topic of their choice to do with life in ancient Egypt. They’ve chosen a wide variety of topics ranging from the Nile to make – up and dress, boats, farming techniques, and much more. I keep the formal essays that they need to write short, being much more interested in having students learn to write a set of coherent paragraphs and an interesting introduction and conclusion than I am in quantity. It’s not hard to write lots. It’s hard to write well.

But with these pieces, these students are more often sharing them with me so that I can help them with revisions and specific paragraphs. They will share their document with me so that I can write suggestions and ideas for them and then save them for them. The same is true among each other. As students have been working on topics that may occasionally overlap (“What kind of clothing did the farmers wear?”) students are sharing their pieces with each other. I don’t consider this to be wrong or plagarism of any sort. I consider this to be knowledge networking and making use of the resources n the classroom. It’s called learning from each other.

So they are learning the benefits of these types of social, online software. I gives many of them access to the same platforms and it allows the knowledge to flow more easily around the classroom.

The rationale for Google Docs in school.

I found this interesting article from another teacher who is using Google Docs with his classes. Both the students, who work in groups as well as the student and teacher, use Google Docs to enhance the learning process. Here is the article in full.

I’ve noticed a growing trend in my classroom over the last few months. More and more kids are moving over to using Google docs and their blogs as a place to complete their written assignments.

I don’t usually care where kids work. When they are on the computers we have access to, they used to most often use Word and then email things back and forth to home every night so that they could continue working. This was more difficult if they didn’t have Word at home. It invovled a process of cutting and pasting and fixing formatting errors each time they did this.

But over the last few months, I’ve noticed the kids in my class have made a dramatic move to Google docs. Using Google docs they can work at school or at home much more easily. But they are moving there for other reasons as well, the biggest one being that they can simply share their work with me and with other kids in the class. For example, my students are currently writing a short, one page essay on a topic of their choice to do with life in ancient Egypt. They’ve chosen a wide variety of topics ranging from the Nile to make – up and dress, boats, farming techniques, and much more. I keep the formal essays that they need to write short, being much more interested in having students learn to write a set of coherent paragraphs and an interesting introduction and conclusion than I am in quantity. It’s not hard to write lots. It’s hard to write well.

But with these pieces, these students are more often sharing them with me so that I can help them with revisions and specific paragraphs. They will share their document with me so that I can write suggestions and ideas for them and then save them for them. The same is true among each other. As students have been working on topics that may occasionally overlap (“What kind of clothing did the farmers wear?”) students are sharing their pieces with each other. I don’t consider this to be wrong or plagarism of any sort. I consider this to be knowledge networking and making use of the resources n the classroom. It’s called learning from each other.

So they are learning the benefits of these types of social, online software. I gives many of them access to the same platforms and it allows the knowledge to flow more easily around the classroom.