Bendin Blog

This was really pretty easy. I know we were asked to wait and use this when we really had something to work on but right now, THIS is what I have to work on! I created a document in googledocs and invited others to share their ideas/web site for help with a project that I am working on.   This is one way that I would use this as a professional tool.

The document portion really just works like a word document with a few extra features. My doc looks like a circus page because I tried to use different things (and yes, I put in that same old picture of me). I tried to upload another picture but it was too big and I just didn’t have time to adjust it right now.

I really don’t work with spreadsheets a lot but I did look at the presentation feature. To me it was similar to power point and I think would be easy to use. I still had trouble with the pictures but I’m sure with a little more work/time I could figure out how to make that go a little more smoothly.

If you were doing a presentation together it would be a GREAT way to collaborate. As teachers we could create classroom/school rules to share and post on a school web. We could also create expectations for collaborative projects that we assign in class and then they may be viewed later online for student use.

I think students could really use this a lot. It would be a great way for them to work on a presentation together but not necessarily have to be in the same room or working on it at the same time. I had trouble this year with kids creating something on one computer at our school that was a little older and then trying to present it on another computer (or even one from home) and then it wouldn’t work when they were trying to present. This would eliminate that problem.