Google Documents Review

Google document is a great user friendly, Web-based word processing, presentations and spreadsheets program. I found many reasons to use this program in the classroom. Google document allows students to create, save, and share documents immediately on-line. Students can collaborate with one another instantly instead of emailing one document at a time. Documents can be created from scratch or up-loaded from existing saved documents. All documents can be saved safely on-line so you won’t lose your information if the hard drive crashes. Since all documents are saved on-line, future teachers can access student work to evaluate in-coming students. I feel teachers will be able to utilize Google documents in the classroom for several activities given that documents can be accessed from any computer. For example, peer editing in a language arts class or student presentations in science class. I’m excited to continue “playing” with Google documents and discovering more activities I can use in my science classroom.