Google Docs is an online Word Processing software, where all the documents and files can be saved on the Google Drive for free. It can be found at https://docs.google.com
Benefits of using Google Docs in the classroom
Google docs allow Teachers to provide real-time feedback to students.
Google docs allow teacher compiles information in a clear and concise manner which makes it easier for teachers who use it. Hence, it helps them to easily use it.
Access and edit projects anywhere, anytime via your mobile device. One of the most significant advantages of Google Docs is that you can create documents on any device, even your mobile phone, and then upload them to Google Drive. You can also edit files anywhere, anytime, which is particularly useful if you are always on the go.
Ways it can be used in the teaching and learning process
To make notes, if the students have left their notebooks. Google Docs could be used to replace their books but also if they wish to use the software on their devices for notes while the teacher dictates.
Google Docs can be used for the creation of a Press Release. The students can write as well as the members of the school's Writer's club can compose a Press Release about an important event planned or that occurred on the school campus.
Google Docs can be used to collaboratively review and edit pieces of work. Whenever group work is given, in order for it to be done quickly and effectively; Google Docs can be chosen. This way students can be able to review and correct each other's contributions to the document at any time.
English Literature Lesson
Google Docs can be used to write Journals, more specifically a Journal Entry on Setting. The impact that setting has on a persona of a War category of poems. The teacher can ask the students to analyze the Political and Physical setting in the poem. For example, " This is The Dark Time My Love" a poem by Dennis Brutus, can be analyzed by the students. Their interpretation of the manner in which the location he was placed in as a soldier affects him and his relationship(Romantic relationship). The mental impact the Setting had on the persona can be highlighted.Google Docs will facilitate Process writing that will be done between 2 weeks of classes.