Using the Google Drive document sharing feature for our grant team’s “A Community of Readers” project has helped me see the value of that feature. I created a To Do List Calendar with input from two colleagues at our meeting in July that I shared through my Google Docs account. We decided we could use this to refer to, tweak and keep each other motivated throughout this school year.
I am using Google Docs with students this year in my 6th grade Computer Apps class. The share feature will be a great way for them to collaborate. I am trying a Google Form titled “Student Survey” to get to know the students each quarter. There is always the hurdle of the technology working and for our first day of school our school network student email was having sporadic problems. A back up for that is to have them type up answers in Microsoft Word to questions displayed on the Smart board and on individual handouts that they can refer to when everyone can access their email.
I decided to look at diigo teacher-librarian networking feature and the Diigo in Education group. I use diigo every day for bookmarking, but hadn’t looked at the professional aspects. I joined the “Global TL – Librarians without Borders,” also created by Joyce Valenza in Google. There’s so much to Google that it’s rather mind boggling! I do have the notifications updates for Global TL activated on my toolbar.