How might you use this tool in your personal and professional life? What issues come to mind about using this tool with students (ie, they need email addresses to log-in)?
I think that Google Docs is a very useful tool. I can easily share documents with elementary and upper art classrooms. I no longer have to just email my ideas. Now I can share them easily with the other art teachers.
It will be great when students have gmail accounts next year. What a great way to keep track of absence work. I can just tell them to go online and print off the notes or worksheet for that particular lesson. Many students have access to the Internet and a printer, but some will have difficulty. I would not make this method of teaching mandatory until I was positive that all students could participate.
"Bring Your Own Device" computing is coming, so having cloud accounts will be very helpful. It's great that you have given thought to how you would use this.
ReplyDeleteMake sure you complete the section of the Google Document in Part A of the Thing 16.