Thing # 20 - Google Docs

I am so loving Google right now. Just the other day, my daughter was trying to type something using a text application because her laptop does not have Microsoft Word. Now, I can show her how to use Google Docs to type her papers and access them from anywhere online. I actually created an account for my husband and showed him how to use the Google Reader to subscribe to Physical Education and Sports feeds.

Here are a few ways I could use this in the classroom or professionally:

1. You could actually have students create a document for their homework assignment instead of writing it on paper.

2. Teachers or team teachers could create a collaborative document of useful sites and links that students or colleagues could access.

3. As a math teacher, I could create or have students create a form and conduct an actual survey. The results could be easily reviewed and in a spreadsheet.

I created a Navigator Information Form using Google docs that I hope to use at the beginning of each school year to retrieve student information.