Google Docs is a wonderful new digital media tool that teachers may use to facilitate collaborative learning in their classrooms. When using traditional word processors such as Pages or Microsoft Word, students have to repeat an attach-email-download cycle in order to share and edit documents. Google Docs takes out the email middle-man and allows users to share, view, and edit documents simultaneously from different locations.
My classmate and I practiced using Google Documents in a test document. I was very impressed with all of the different features, particularly the editing tracking, comments, and research features. We were able to quickly and effectively communicate and edit our document, and we had fun while doing it. I can easily see the Google Docs great potential for collaborative projects in the classroom.
I really liked the middle school lesson plan that utilized Google Docs to create a collaborative new vocabulary project. Each student/student pair contributed one slide dedicated to their assigned vocabulary word, and the teacher later shared the complete presentation with all the students slides to the whole class. I can see myself using a similar activity in my language arts lesson plans.
Well, it sounds as though the example you use is discussing Google Presentation, not Google documents. I checked the lesson plan and it is in the wrong place, so I will not hold that against you. You did do a nice job describing how the students use Google Presentation.
ReplyDeleteThis does illustrate why Google Needed to Change Google Docs to Google Drive so the larger Google Docs would not be confused with Google Documents.
You did a very nice job writing this one up. Thank you! :-)