Original Post:
I have a teacher who needs to do a presentation on teacher to teacher use of Google
Docs (not teacher to students). I am looking for any suggestions you may have that
I can share with him. Thanks so much.
I received the following 2 responses. Again, thank you.
1. I'm working on a project with another teacher in my district using Google Docs.
We're preparing a presentation for a state conference next fall. We've started a
Google Doc that we have shared access to, where we're brainstorming ideas, web
links, and examples that will become part of the presentation. Google Docs also
has a new "presentation" feature--kind of like PowerPoint--where we can start to
build our actual presentation, too. It makes things much easier than having to
e-mail files back and forth. And many file-sharing sites are blocked by our
internet filter--so even if we wanted to use DivShare or like sites
Google Docs has just introduced color-coded folders, which is great--I have one
color for school stuff, one for personal, and one for community stuff. Teachers
collaborating on projects can sort and color-code items so they're easy to find.
2. I brought Google into our school in a big way. All staff and students use gmail
as our main communication tool. For adults, I found the photo app (Picasa) was the
gateway drug to get them all hooked on google. Then I moved onto the deeper parts
like Google docs and Google groups - true collaboration.
When using Google docs, there has to be a real reason - doing a presentation on it
doesn't seem to work (I have tried many times). I introduced it when we needed live
documents for "Accreditation" or "Integrated units". Once they understand the
beauty of real-time documents and "who entered what when", they will never again
send an attached word document.
By the way, Google Talk (separate app - not the embedded in gmail app) is the
gateway drug for middle school students.
They love the ability to drag and drop music files (building up their itunes
libraries) and photos straight into it while they are chatting.
Janelle Judy Langford
Teacher-Librarian
250 Middle School Road
Bluestone Middle School
Skipwith, VA 23968
jlangford@meck.k12.va.us
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