Week Five Thing Thirteen

I have been using G-Mail for over a year now. I, however, had no idea that IGoogle, Google Reader, or Google Documents existed. I have been sharing ideas with LaDale about using Google Documents with our teammates in order work on our IB planners. Every week that we meet to work on planners, we have to take turns getting on the server and opening the planner in order to have just one person on the document that can edit it. The rest of us are just looking at a "Read Only" copy. Using Google Documents would make a lot more sense because we could all be on the document and could edit it together.

I have to admit, however, that giving students the ability to edit Google Documents makes me nervous. I love the idea of being able to edit their documents. In a perfect world, I would assign a writing assignment to my students and then I would add comments to their documents. They would then use my comments to make a final draft. I would have them print their rough draft, peer edit, teacher edit, and final draft. Again, in a perfect world....with limited computer time...this would be difficult to do.