Google+Docs

With the focus of collaboration for this course, I researched the concept of Google Docs. This is a service which has enabled groups for EDLD 5364 to discuss our group project. This is not only easy to use as a classroom teacher, but easy for students to use as well. As discussed in this [|video], the positive outcomes that can come from using Google Docs in your classrooms are unlimited. It goes on to explain the easy aspect of learning how to incorporate into your classroom all that Google Docs have to offer. Learning does not have to stop once a student leaves your classroom, because of the 24/7/365 accessibility of these Google Docs. It allows for teacher-student feedback to become instantaneous as well. This service not only promotes group learning in your students, but also can improve learning through colleagues as well. It can be used to facilitate concepts that need to be modified through multiple people. Google Docs can eliminate emailing back and forth between co-workers and allow all invited people to open, change, and save information on a Google Doc. There is an easy video called [|Google Docs in Plain English] that will allow co-workers see the overall premise of a service such as Google Docs. This program can help all who use it to collaborate not only with each other, but with the world with a publishing option as well. The multitude of opportunities that Google Docs allows is vital to having a 21st Century classroom.