Description: I taught my fellow first grade teachers about Google Docs and used this as a way to collaborate with them before printing the monthly calendar for our students.
Standards: TF- V.D (Productivity and Professional Practice)
Hours: 4 hours
Population: First Grade Teachers
Reflection: Once I learned about Google Docs I was excited to share it with my teammates and discuss how we could use it in the collaboration of the homework calendars we send home at the beginning of the month. Often when we have a letter that needs to go home to parents or a homework calendar, we end up sending it to each other via e-mail and it will then be revised by someone and sent out via e-mail again, and so on. Using Google Docs we can invite each other to look over and revise on the spot and then take the final copy from there instead of sending it to one another over and over. This worked fairly well once we had determined how everyone logged in and what e-mail addresses were being used (some made it hard to determine who was who). Now it makes a lot of sense to use this tool in so many different areas.
I love your idea of collaborating with your fellow teachers. I remember wasting many hours with team members in the past because we would have to keep emailing things to each other, and it was easy to get confused and be looking at or working on the wrong version of a document. Google Docs solves that problem!
ReplyDeleteCollaboration
ReplyDeletehttp://researchcrusaders.blogspot.com/2016/02/bw-u.html