How might you use this tool in your personal and professional life? What issues come to mind about using this tool with students (ie, they need email addresses to log-in)?
I LOVE Google Docs! This is exactly what I need to be able to move files from school to home or vice versa. Now that I can get favorite websites from any computer with my homepage or Diigo account, the next step was to have file access. Of course, carrying around my jump drive (thumb drive, memory stick, etc.) works pretty well, but this gives me another option. In my department we have been creating our CFA's and uploading them to a Google Docs account which proves very handy. To use this tool with students, however, would require e-mail addresses, so I think it might be better to choose a different file sharing platform. This week, my AP Spanish V students turned in projects. Four of them were videos. Of the four, one was uploaded to youtube, one was on a DVD, and two were on flash drives that I copied to my school computer and my own flash drive. I am now mulling over how to make this process more efficient and accessible using one of the tools we have experimented with in this course. Suggestions?
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Absolutely! First of all, Googledocs now allows you to upload almost any file and work in it - I have even uploaded and am currently working in an excel spreadsheet - AND as an extra bonus, we have discovered that multiple people can access and work on the same document simultaneously. Your kids could easily work on projects together without having to rearrange schedules! We have been advocating that students create a Googledocs (or Windows Live) account for a couple of years now - esp. when working on projects to avoid the problem of saving files in school that are not accessible from home. We have also been asking Craig to consider getting a Google educator account for the system - which many systems have - an added bonus is that there is no longer a space issue because everything is saved to the "cloud" -- let's talk further on this
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