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Anytime Access

Internet connection

Your time

Your place

Convenience

Working students with conflicting timelines

Immediate access to latest version of document

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=1209600&continue=http://docs.google.com/&followup=http://docs.google.com/&ltmpl=homepage


Specific use of Google Docs in a class

• Qualitative Research Methods. – Graduate hybrid class. – Met F2F once/month. Otherwise online. – Group work with students/group.

• Qualitative Research Article Critique.

Group project with student co-construction of document to be turned

in.

• Qualitative Research Proposal.

Individual student development. Group members required to

comment/edit. Other class members invited to review/comment.

Examples


Familiar interface

•Some similar icons to commonly used word processing programs•Mouse-over reminders for what each icon allows users to do•Sometimes exported document to Word for formatting – from Google to Word and back again creates problems•Tables are sometimes problematic – both within Google or when downloaded to Word•Spell check sometimes causes problems


Revision history


Save & Share options

Automatic saving of document every few seconds

Author able to click save at any time

Author also able to discard changes so that the revision isn’t kept in history (only in documents, not spreadsheets)

Some issues with multiple people trying to edit document simultaneously

Will show editing even if people merely have logged into the document and have it minimized in browser


Individual contributions viewable

Each person’s contributions noted by:

Unique color

Username

Date

Time


Easy to Set up & Add Contributors


Now you!Brainstorming about the use of Google Docs

Consider:

Instructional goals

Institutional/instructional context

Characteristics of learners

Characteristics of teachers


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Resources

CheatSheet - Additional tips developed by Bonnie Hunter of TLT Group (this is, itself, a Google Doc!)http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajcxc7jhbwxg_30dvc7rb

Resources from Barbara Millis on cooperative learning:http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_38.pdfhttp://www.tltgroup.org/resources/rmillis3.htmlhttp://www.tltgroup.org/gilbert/millis.htmhttp://www.tltgroup.org/gilbert/cooplearning.htm

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajcxc7jhbwxg_30dvc7rb

http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_38.pdf

http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/rmillis3.html

http://www.tltgroup.org/gilbert/millis.htm

http://www.tltgroup.org/gilbert/cooplearning.htm


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Reviews of GDS Official GDS Web sites

Home page of Google Docs &Spreadsheets (GDS):docs.google.com

If you want to go into this subject more deeply, …

Great review of GDS by Bill Webb:www.lockergnome.com/nexus/windows/2006/10/16/google-damps/

Tour of GDS:www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html

GDS blog:google-d-s.blogspot.com/

PC Magazine’s review:www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2032345,00.asp

CNET’s review:reviews.cnet.com/Google_Docs_Spreadsheets/4505-9239_7-32115919.html

Google for Educators:www.google.com/educators/index.html

http://docs.google.com/

http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/windows/2006/10/16/google-damps

http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/windows/2006/10/16/google-damps

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html

http://google-d-s.blogspot.com/

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2032345,00.asp

http://reviews.cnet.com/Google_Docs_Spreadsheets/4505-9239_7-32115919.html



http://www.google.com/educators/index.html


Clothing the Emperor

MythsEveryone likes to work/learn in teams and knows how to participate wellMost students do not like to work/learn in teams and they do not know how to participate well

Clarification Neither extreme is accurate – as usual!Some students worry that other, less conscientious teammates will unfairly benefitSome worry that their own contributions will be irretrievably distorted or lostSome faculty worry that they will be unable to determine who contributed what to some document – especially if team members argue about that!

Constructive Alternative(s) LEADERSHIP: Faculty must take responsibility for guiding, supporting team work/learningTOOLS: Google Docs (and others) can help with key problems, make some activities easier; need to be realistic about limitations, too.

We hope you’ve discovered some ideas for innovative uses of technologyto support collaborative learning and projects.


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