Thing 16

Google docs, what a great discovery! To be able to allow students and/or teachers to work on documents or spreadsheets with others, but at their own computers and at their own convenience without the hassle of email, is almost life changing. For example, I have the leveled library for our elementary school in my room and have distributed copies of all the books and levels several times to the other teachers. They come in and hope that the set of books they want is there and check it out. Now, I have uploaded the list, in spreadsheet form, onto Google docs. I can add new books, put in columns for checking out/checking in books and teachers can see all that are available. No more need to copy and re-copy the list. I am also on several committees where letters and other documents are created and the collaboration for these will be so much easier with Google docs.