Google Docs Collaboration
Use the collaborative power of Google documents
Why use Google Docs in the classroom?
- Because it is easy, online and fun
- Because the students will love it
- Because it is easier to keep all the documents organized in the same page (the students and parents can view the documents created)
- Because all the students can view each other's work and given sufficient permission, they can either comment on each other's work or even edit.
Let's start exploring!
Specific classroom applications:
1. TESTS
Overall tests can be written pen and paper and then the results recorded in a spreadsheet. This will make your life as a teacher easier because you can then interpret the data and have a better understanding of your student's knowledge.
2. SURVEYS
General feedback of if you like to feel the pulse of the classroom regarding a particular subject.
3. DATA MANAGEMENT
Teaching the math data probability and management can be done online: creating surveys using Google forms and then graphs in Google spreadsheets.
4. Students Accommodations and Modifications
Because there is the ability to add pictures, the tests can incorporate visuals and thus making it easier for students to understand the questions.
Contents of the demo
2. Demo of Google Docs, Google Presentation and Google Form
- Great website that shows you the benefits of the collaborative power of Google Documents in the classroom. It also provides step by step instructions on how to share a google document for students to view or edit each other's work.
- Step by step tutorial on how to create a Google Form (Test)
- Link to Flubaroo: step by step try http://www.flubaroo.com/try-flubaroo-now
3. Create a Google Form and type in all the questions and the responses
4. Send the form by sharing the link - this can be send to an unlimited number of users if just the link is shared, but to 200 people if you are sharing the form itself.
Hands-on Activity
Create this test in Google form and then share it with your students. (the students in this case are your York colleagues so do not forget to create the Google group first with all the email addresses)
Sample worksheet
Lavinia Codreanu
Email: lcodreanu@ugcloud.ca