Week 5 Things 12 and 13

Thing 12: Some uses that I found interesting were: ongoing vocab, using a page as a group site with multiple teachers (i.e. for a department), Hall of Fame showcasing student sample work, message board with posts and links to other multimedia/websites. Interesting uses also would include collaborative note-taking (students post responses to an article or question, comment on each others), Literature circle--like an online book club and extra credit assignments buried in the wiki.

I went to the D20 sandbox and added my comment to a page. So this is different than adding a comment because you're directly adding text to a page that is shared by others.

Thing 13: What did you find interesting? What types of applications within schools might work well with Google docs? I shared a document and then edited ones sent to me. Great tool for revising documents among staff. It would work well for students as well when working on a project. It's cool that you can type directly into the file you want to create and it is instantly posted as such. As far as applications, parental access, other staff members, students to access common documents it would be useful for. Instead of creating files, then uploading and providing a link, inviting others to share documents gets them direct access to the documents. I created a survey about class lessons and posted it, then submitted answers and viewed spreadsheet summary. Great tool.