Thing #20

Hawaii plans

Well, I had a REAL need for a word document that I needed to share with others and now I know I can use GoogleDocs for this. I am going on a cruise in Hawaii in a couple of weeks now, so we are trying to plan the trip from all over Dallas. I used Delicious (see Thing #15) to mark some bookmarks for activities in Hawaii, but GoogleDocs is a way that we can share our ideas collaboratively.

GoogleDocs can be used for:

• Group projects: Each person in the group can add their part of a project to a GoogleDoc. If each person does research on a different part of a topic, the information can be put together in a GoogleDoc for all group members to work on.
  
• Presentations: Creating a Powerpoint presentation in a GoogleDoc is a good way to share with others. Instead of having to email an attachment you can share the link or have Google do the sharing for you.
  
• Surveys: Create a survey for people to answer questions and Google will organize the responses. This could be used for a quiz that students have to respond to or if you want to get your students thoughts or feelings about something, this can be done anonomously in a GoogleDoc form.