This just in ! Google Docs adds new faetures, including real-time document collaboration! To access the new features:
Go to Google Docs and click on the Settings drop down in the top right of the screen. On the Settings page, click on Editing. Beside New Version of Google Docs, click in the chekbox for Create using new version. Ready? Go!
Examples of the different Google Docs and how you could use them as a teacher, with students, for assessement, etc.
Word Processing-collaborative writing, group work, projects, information sharing
Spreadsheet- for summarizing tables of data and data sharing
Form- for collecting data, an online quiz, on the fly assessments. Here is the shared document you can use.
Presentation - save your Powerpoint or Keynote presentations and present from any Internet connected computer. Students can save their presentations made in a variety of formats and present from any networked computer.
Google Reader- organize and read Blogs on topics of interest, and have new posts listed in Reader. Have students follow a topic of interest, or a news story, or each others' blogs, or compare points of view
Google Alerts- Have Google email or post an alert you when any topic or search term is posted to the Internet
N.B. Students will need a Google account to be able to use many of these services!
Google Earth - an amazing Web 2.0 app! e.g. student created Virtual Field Trips, GoogleLitrips.org- has numerous books in Google Earth format.
Thanks to Free Technology for Teachers blogger Richard Byrne for this Resource:
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This just in ! Google Docs adds new faetures, including real-time document collaboration! To access the new features:Go to Google Docs and click on the Settings drop down in the top right of the screen. On the Settings page, click on Editing. Beside New Version of Google Docs, click in the chekbox for Create using new version. Ready? Go!
Examples of the different Google Docs and how you could use them as a teacher, with students, for assessement, etc.
Word Processing -collaborative writing, group work, projects, information sharing
Spreadsheet- for summarizing tables of data and data sharing
Form- for collecting data, an online quiz, on the fly assessments. Here is the shared document you can use.
Presentation - save your Powerpoint or Keynote presentations and present from any Internet connected computer. Students can save their presentations made in a variety of formats and present from any networked computer.
Google Reader - organize and read Blogs on topics of interest, and have new posts listed in Reader. Have students follow a topic of interest, or a news story, or each others' blogs, or compare points of view
Google Alerts- Have Google email or post an alert you when any topic or search term is posted to the Internet
N.B. Students will need a Google account to be able to use many of these services!
Google Earth - an amazing Web 2.0 app! e.g. student created Virtual Field Trips, GoogleLitrips.org- has numerous books in Google Earth format.
Thanks to Free Technology for Teachers blogger Richard Byrne for this Resource:
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