Collaborative+Tool

The Web 2.0 collaborative tool I used was Google docs. Google docs is a free online service that allows us to collaborate with others without sending a file through an attachment. With Google docs, the documents are right online. The neat aspect of Google docs, is that you can invite others to share your document. When you allow others to see your document, they can edit, or communicate with you on the document. You need to type in their email addresses and click invite collaborators. They will then receive an email with the link to the document the sender wanted to share. The original maker of the document gets to see who made what changes to the document. And you do not need to worry about losing the older versions of the documents because they are all saved. You can also do this with spreadsheets and presentations.

 When I found out about Google docs, I could not believe I did not use this when I was in my undergraduate program. Google docs makes it so much easier to collaborate with a group of people. I would have used this myself to work on presentations and projects when I was in school, but I look forward to using it for these same reasons. Teachers can use Google docs to collaborate with other teachers and their students. Teachers can use Google docs when creating lessons with their cooperating teachers to make sure they are on the same page. Teachers can also use Google docs with students to invite them to collaborate with you and each other on homework assignments.

 Teachers can also allow students to collaborate with each other using Google docs. Teachers can create a better learning environment by allowing students to work in pairs or in groups, rather than as individuals (Ogle & Lang, p. 156). This is an easier way for students to communicate with others.

Ogle, D. & Lang, L. (2011). Best practices in adolescent literacy

 instruction. In L.B. Gambrell, L. M. Morrow, //Best practices in//

// literacy instruction //(4th ed., p. 156). New York: Guilford Press.

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