Comments on: Google docs presentation

By: Demet Metan

Demet Metan — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:48:32 +0000

Thank you Doug for this nice presentation. I find Google Docs innovative as it is very easy to share with people. You do not have to attach any document and send it to people. AS having huge attachments really takes time to send to people. Rather than attaching files, it is good that you can allow people to look at and edit your Word documents, Excel files and the PowerPoint,too. I also find out that you can put Keynote files into Google Presentation and share it.

A concrete example for a K-12 environment can be to use Google docs as a discussion board. Teacher can ask students to write a post on the topic they have learned in class and reflect their opinion on the topic as an extending activity. I think that will reinforce what the students have learned in class. It will also give students a space to be reflective.

Of course, this is one way of using Google docs. I guess the rest is it up to the teachers to imagine what they can.

By: Jhumur

Jhumur — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:54:34 +0000

Doug’s presentation was so engaging, particularly the demo was the most interesting to me. In my view, it is an awsome collaborating tool for the teacher and students. This system has a potential to offer interactivity, because there is a chat window for comments. It is very easy to create links from googleDocs to any Web page or any other GoogleDocs page. There are so many potentiality for students’ assessing using this tool,like providing feed back on students’ work along the line (formative assessment).

By: Michael Cavallaro

Michael Cavallaro — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:21:21 +0000

Since I missed class last week, I went through Doug’s presentation and handout to see what I could learn. I wish I could have heard the presentation itself. That would have been a great idea if all our presentations were recorded and made into podcasts. Back on topic, I think Google docs has the potential to become very successful. When asking many teachers and students I know in our district, I found most of them didn’t even know the product existed. As broadband access continues to grow, I think it is very possible that you may see more applications go this route, including Microsoft with their Office Suite.

By: Lifang Chang

Lifang Chang — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:56:08 +0000

Google docs are free with the only condition: Internet access. Teachers would like to use these powerful online document tools when they begin to know and be familiar with the Google docs. I could imagine that Google docs will definitely change k-12 teachers’ classroom planning. Teachers will use Google docs to do a daily classroom planning because teachers (even teachers’ colleagues and students) are able to see and make changes through the new online docs’ window. The updated ongoing classroom docs give students or their parents a chance to know the day-to-day class activities.

By: Tim McCann

Tim McCann — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:55:00 +0000

I very much enjoyed learning more about google docs and spreadsheets. I have found the applications very useful in the past as a collaborative tool. I cant wait to really test out and use the presenter tool. It will be interesting to see how professors, teacher, and students integrate its functions into classes (there is allot there that if used correctly/taken advantage of that could really spice up some boring PP’s). I have been out of the classroom for a while as a teacher but as I go back into the middle school/ high school environment through work and class projects I really am surprised that I don’t see more of these tools being used. I really wonder why? Are they too complicated? Are teachers frightened of web based applications? OR have they just not caught on yet?