Tool #4

Creating google documents was very easy for me to do. The document that I created was a letter to parents explaining how I implement love and logic into my classroom. I then sent that letter to my teammate so that she could have it for her own personal use. By creating the letter in google docs, she would be able to change the letter as she saw fit. I think the greatest thing about using this tool is that you no longer need to send attachments. When you send a document for someone to edit, you have to worry about saving it and then saving every new version that comes your way. Google docs eliminates this so that the changes can be made on the original document. I think that this could be very useful for the students when it came to editing papers. They could start the writing process in google docs and share it with peers or teachers to have them revise. The comments could be easily seen by the author and they could go back and make the changes. This tool would also be helpful for my teammates so that we could share lesson plans and roadmaps.

As I put my five blogs into google reader, I was impressed with how easy it will be to keep up with new postings. Rather than having to search for new information, it is right there for you to see. I like that it marks the unread material, so that you don't waste your time reading something that you have already seen. I think that this would be a great tool for students when they are doing research projects. They can keep track of new information and skip over things that they have already read. They could also subscribe to interest blogs that they want to follow and keep up with the most current information.