Web 2.0

I use Microsoft Word documents and Power Point Presentations nearly every day, and I have enjoyed adding new things like more images from flickr.com as well as animations, etc.   I honestly found googledocs to be rather frustrating and slow.  I felt that I had fewer options for adding the “fun” stuff in googledocs; however, I do like the collaboration option.  It was eyeopening seeing how much teachers generally spend in their classrooms, and such a document could be useful in many ways.  This could be used in the classroom for students to collaborate on a project which each different member researches from home and then adds to the final product.  Collaborative learning in the classroom often takes longer than necessary because students can only work together at school.  IF they all had computers, they could work from home AND together at the same time.  Another use in the classroom would be to put documents or presentations on the internet for students who miss school.  They could not only access what I covered in class, but they could also add their own thoughts/ideas  and have other students give help at home by editing the document or commenting on what was added.  Finally, when teachers at a school are researching for a committee project, googledocs would make it much easier and faster to bring together all their research together into the final product.  Teachers definitely work with limited time, so being able to work from home at any hour of the night they might be awake and have free time is an advantage.  This could cut down on the number of meetings teachers have to attend so that teachers might have more time to do what’s needed at school.    Another way for teachers to use googledocs is to add to presentations and then share the information with other teachers who teach the same subject…again, with fewer meetings needed.

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