GOOGLE DOCS

There are some major benefits to using Google Docs. There is no software to download and you can access your work from any computer at any time. Some benefits for use in the classroom are that it promotes and encourages collaboration and students can access their work from any computer at home or at school.

Now you might be wondering how this can be used in the classroom. Here are just a few way to use Google Docs in the classroom:

• Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your students record their group projects together in a single document.

• Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a document shared with you. 

• You can check up on their work at any time, provide insight and help using the comments feature, and understand better each students strengths.

• Encourage collaborative presentation skills by asking your students to work together on a shared presentation, then present it to the class.

• Collaborate on a document with fellow teachers to help you all track the status and success of students you share.

• Maintain, update and share lesson plans over time in a single document. 

• Provides a place for students to save their work that they can access from home as well as school.

• Works across operating systems-this is a big deal!

• It saves automatically every 15 seconds, so no more lost work for students.

• Revision History allows the teacher to see which students have contributed.

• Enables shared note taking.

• You can select who you want to share documents with.