Numero dieciseis y diecisiete

Tonight I learned about Google Docs. I can't believe I hadn't heard of this before. I think the idea of it is great!! I wasn't able to work find the 23 things document in my folder, but I uploaded some other things and played for a while. My colleagues and I are creating new curriculum this year. Uploading to Google docs would allow us to collaborate even though we are not physically at the same building!! I am definately suggesting this to my teammates.

I can't really imaging the students in my classes using it as much as the teachers talked about on the video. I don't have that many assignments that would require this type of collaboration, but never say never.

I also looked into other productivity tools. I thought the flashcard site would be perfect for my students, but I didn't really like it once I got there. I finally settled with the website bubbl.us. I decided to create a bubble chart that outlined the major concepts of my current unit. I left blank bubble for the students to fill in. I thought this would be a good graphic organizer for them to study with. I found it was not really user friendly and very time consuming. I think you can essentially do the same thing with inspiration, but without the "sharing" component. I will have to re-think how I could use one of the these sites. For now, they are not my favorite things that I have learned about. Maybe the bar was just set high with Google Docs.... :)