Google+Docs

= Google Docs =

An example of a collaborative Google Doc is [|this document]. Feel free to visit it and fill it in!

Important for sharing Google Docs: [|Tinyurl.com] This shortens the web addresses that you will use to share your docs.

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Tutorials/How To
Google's Guide to [|Getting Started with Google Docs] [|This] is the most simple written explanation I've seen of a Google Docs how-to.

Here is a great tutorial on Google Docs for Teachers: media type="youtube" key="hXQmbj3EpCg" height="390" width="480"

Templates
[|Search] Google's tremendous site of teacher templates to see if something works for you. Remember, you can always adapt what you find.

Using Google Docs in the Classroom
Below is a Slideshare presentation on using Google Docs in the classroom. The first few slides will be the most relevant for beginners, after that it talks about advanced uses of Google Docs. (If for some reason the Slideshow below doesn't work, [|here is a link to it]. media type="custom" key="8491942" width="64" height="64"

Ideas for using GD in the classroom: Adapted from [|Source]
 * Read the same book and write a collaborative book report
 * Share reflections from a field trip
 * Create a story from a prompt
 * Write a hypothesis about an experiment
 * Recreate an historical event
 * Develop a math word problem, or solve one

[|5th Grade Example] of using Google Docs within a classroom. 3rd Grade Example of using Google Docs to write a collaborative story with another school.