Teaching students how to use google docs

#Teaching students how to use google docs series

Documents can be created from scratch right in your browser, or can be uploaded from your computer. GoogleDocs has a feature for commenting on the text, as well as a chat window on the left of the screen. The most important feature of GoogleDocs for my classroom practice is the way students can all collaborate on the same document in real time. The doc looks similar to the Microsoft Word interface, but it has several exciting other features. I use the word processor (or document) in my class most often. GoogleDocs (a part of GoogleDrive) is a set of cloud-based collaborative softwares, including a word processor, an image editor, spreadsheet and presentation software, and survey platform. This post will briefly explain GoogleDocs for the uninitiated and provide a few hacks for using this platform in your teaching.

I am always looking for ways to encourage collaboration and group learning between my students, and GDocs is my favorite platform for creating that collaboration. One of the most important tools in my classroom pedagogy, regardless of the course I am teaching, is GoogleDocs.

#Teaching students how to use google docs series

Our previous entries in this series include my posts on Teaching with Tablets, Teaching with Twitter, and Teaching with Blogs, Carleen Carey's Teaching Tools for the Tech Savvy TA, Ashley Wiersma's 3 Ways to Hack your Class with Google+, and Andrea Zellner's I'm a Digital Grad in a Digital World. Welcome to another entry in our loosely-defined-yet-still-exciting teaching with technology series. Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University.