ocs to differentiate some worksheets for my special education students, since the original could not be edited. I like that google docs can provide collaboration amongst peers and teacher to student. I have only used the basic formats and templates provided. Are there more applications on google docs that could benefit a middle school inclusion math classroom? …
te a quick guided web tour -a list of questions and links that ask students to solve a problem. See http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcb6k8cj_20hm9mkz
as one example.
Overall, Google Docs , wikis and blogs allow those who do not understand web traditional web authoring software (i.e. Dreamweaver, Frontpage) to create their own web pages.
I have also used it to publish "How To's". See http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcb6k8cj_1f3wzws
I look forward to reading about your ideas.…
going with all Google Docs vs. having students store work on network drives?
From personal experience, I am hoping that going with Google Docs will help with all the file management issues we often have in schools, but I am looking for input from someone who's tried this on a relatively big scale.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!…
t send to google doc as is and use it as a storage. I am looking forward to version control, accessibility and collaboration/sharing.One thing that concerns me is backup. I'm used to having multiple backups of my docs. I see under more actions I can export all my google docs (2GB at a time) out of google docs to a local computer. However it asks to convert the files for exporting. If I convert my google docs to a open office or microsoft file, does it then mess with the formatting? Has anyone tried to export all their files and then reload them into google docs? Did it work ok?My second concern is connectivity. How often or problematic is connectivity to google docs? I'm rather confident in my connection to internet, I'm concerned about things going down on google's end.Your help in calming my nervousness is appreciated! …
ifficult to control students to take note of what is taught by teachers. This is because students fun chatting with each other. If there ever use of their students, hope you are willing to discuss the best way to use google doc presentation for the purpose of teaching and learning. Thank you.…
ce when trying to work thru difficult, hard to diagnose issues.
Google Docs, and Google Docs for Education, is a good, low cost alternative to Microsoft Office for K-12 classrooms. Some users are familiar with using Google Docs at home, making the transition to using it in the classroom easier.
The one drawback, and it is a big one, is that students must have Internet access at home to take advantage of the collaboration aspect of Google Docs.…
Added by John Patota at 1:46pm on January 28, 2010