We have had a recent inservice about google docs. It was presented in such a hurried manner I didn't really get the point of using google docs. After viewing the video I decided to give google docs another try. So this week during our grade level meeting we did our minutes using google docs to collaborate on lesson planning ideas and sharing of ideas for future units. It did help make our meeting go faster. The hardest part for me was getting use to more than one person typing on a document at one time.
So I decided to use google docs to share a document I needed for a cheer booster meeting. I shared it with the other mom I was working with and we were able to make a document to send out for donations. I liked that we could both work on the document and leave comments. This was much easier than our old method of emailing back and forth working on one document.
Using this with my second graders would be a challenge, but I do think it could be done with forms and very simple writing. Second graders often get frustrated trying to type. For a more elaborate collaboration I would borrow some fifth graders to serve as typist for second grade.
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