Reflection #2: Google Docs

What am I learning? I am learning about Google Docs and being able to create documents that can be shared with other people to collaborate and work on the same project together while being anywhere in the world. Also, I have learned how to create a Google Calendar to organize my time and my husband's time very efficiently. Google Docs has been a great tool to use to save other people time and my time as well.

So What? So what does this mean for me as a student, teacher, and colleague today? This means that I can be able to communicate with my classmates on student projects on a regular basis without having to set up a time to work on it together. We can work on it at home whatever time is convenient for us. It saves us time, money, and our sanity! :) This would be great to have the students use Google Docs as well. They can work together in groups this way, they can follow their own calendar as well as my (their teacher's) calendar so they know what's due on certain days. This allows them to do their work at school or at home. They just have to pull up the internet and it's saved. It is great to be able to share documents with other teachers in the same grade level so they can have input on assignments or lesson plans and they also know what you're teaching their students too. It is a great tool and everyone can benefit from it in the classrooms and school.

Now what? What does this technology mean for my future students as well as I for their teacher? This is a great tool and I can see so many possibilities with it. Students can correspond with each other. They can change and fix things on a report or presentation before having to turn it in to their teacher. They can be sitting at home doing it and they can do it when it's convenient for them. I can see them giving feedback to other students and adding in or changing a few things to make the presentation better. I can see my students getting along really well and having fun doing this with each other. For me, I think that I could create so many lesson plans using Google Docs. I can create a math assignment or quiz online and they can print it off and we can go over the assignment together. I can post a question about the reading, another student will answer and then they post a question about the reading too. This cycle will go on till the whole class has had the chance to answer and post a question for their class. There are many things you can do and I think you can do almost anything with Google Docs!