PE4

Google Docs is a tool I plan to share with staff and students as a tool for collaboration. The 6^th grade students create a PowerPoint project on Ancient Egypt. They are broken up in teams of two to work on the project. They work on their slides individually and join at the end to combine the slides into one project. Sometimes they cannot come to the lab at the same time as their partner, which makes it difficult to complete the projects as a team. Google Docs is a tool, which will help with this dilemma. The students can post the project to Google Docs and each students can update the project from anywhere at anytime as needed.  The students can use the chat tools in Google Docs to collaborate about the project and to analyze other projects. 

Students can upload and save their PowerPoint projects to Google Docs as .ppt files, however the maximum file size is 10 mg and the animations and music will not work in Google Docs. The tools of the presentation part of Google Docs are limited.