Thing # 7

The two Google Applications I have used are Google Docs and Google Earth.

Google Docs was introduced to me about a year and a half ago by my graduate school companions. We were looking for a way to share our projects among each other and we would email them back and forth with revisions and changes and it was getting annoying because it was hard to keep up with the most current version. One member of my group suggested Google Docs - amazing. We started to do all of our collaboration on this and it was awesome. We would start the document and then everyone could log in and edit our group projects. It was a lot easier and the collaboration increased tremendously. I could see teams of teachers using this as a way to share lesson plans or ideas with each other and sharing documents across walls and even buildings.

Google Earth is a cool and exciting way for students to view places that they will never have the experience of traveling to. I have used it to take kids to various ecosystems, habitats, and landforms around the world. The kids can zoom in on the ice caps and the Sahara desert as well as exploring our galaxy above.