Ramblings et al

Google Docs is a great place to work. I like it best for two reasons 1) the ability to share and 2) I don’t need MY laptop, a flash drive, etc. to work on documents. I can go home pull up Google Docs and get to work from my home laptop and then I can send the document to a colleague for review and editing. Wonderful, simple! A friend turned me onto this last year and I’m an addict. We used it primarily for working at home and sharing but we would also use the spreadsheet to list out “frequently called parents” -we all know about those! We put in kid name, phone numbers, parent names, reason for call. This may sound weird but it was a great resource when you needed a number for a student or wanted to know if the parents had been called about a particular issue before i.e. not doing homework, grades slipping. For students the filling out forms feature is really cool for getting information about them during the first days of school. I also love the idea of students being able to collaborate on projects without having to use a flash drive, email, or the server to store their work. They can easily share from home with little problem. This is a super tool! I will be using it far more frequently this year.