Successfully had class use Google Docs

My first block just successfully colaborated on a group document using Google Docs. Overall it worked really well. Most students had to create a google account. One thing to keep in mind if they are making a new account, is that they have to go into their email to verify the account before they are going to be able to use it.

Then I had one group member create the document they would all be working on. Then that student shared the document with their other group members. It took some students a while to see the document that was shared. There were a few documents that were shared that never showed up. Those students then had another person create one and share it again and it seemed to work.

The biggest problem we ran into was one group kept having an alert show up saying that the changes they made as a collabortor would be deleated. This happened to them more than once and they had to then coordinate with one another who was going to type at what time. Does anyone know why this was happening.

Overall, students were resistant at first but during our discussion after using it they thought it was really useful.

Google Dcos

I am thinking about having groups work on a project together using google docs. I'm wondering if anyone has tried this and if they have any suggestions. I'm also wondering if there is any problem with having all the students create a google account. Amy H. and I tried to share a document with out logging into our google account and it didn't work. Some of you probably already knew that, but it was my new discovery and thought I would share it.

Added Blogger to my iGoogle

I just added blogger in my iGoogle through the gadgets. It is really cool to be able to post to my blog right from iGoogle!!!

RSS Feed

I'm really excited that I can finally see all of your blogs and science news on my reader page! Travis, thanks so much for showing me igoogle. I'm going to love opening google and seeing all of my stuff in one place.

Research Project Calculator

This website http://milidribblinglessons.pbwiki.com/FrontPage gives your lessons to help teach your students about the research process.

My first try at blogging

After hearing so much about blogging I am now finally trying it! This morning was a little overwhelming with all the Web 2.0 tools that they showed us, but also very inspiring. I'm really excited to try and make a blog for my students to go to and read current science news and to write a reaction. I'm looking forward to looking into the reserach project calculator and thinking about how it could fit into my classroom.