Google docs is amazing!! Especially for what I am teaching!! I did not know about creating the surveys though. I will definilty use that on my blog!!!
I just started using google docs recently. I have a friend who works for google and has set up a couple spreadsheets that I've used for our Relay for Life team or to keep track of friends addresses, but I just started acutally using it myself.
This week acutally I used to to collaborate with my colleagues. We are doing a wiki project to include all "online b" classes. The students will work in groups, but with people from other classes. So I sent a google spreadsheet to combine our classes and setup our groups. For the actual wiki we are going to use wikispaces and I want them to also create a presentation in google docs to present to their classmates. I'm really excited about this project and hope it goes well.
I think anytime you use the internet you could come across problems, especially with something like this where students can edit and make changes. There is a bigger risk for cheating or plagarism amongst students. But with monitoring and coming up with creative assignments that they could not cheat on will be our job.
I think advantages of "working in a cloud" obviously is the collaboration. Especially for teacher who can share and collaborate on lessons. I think a disadvantage for studnets using it would be the plagarism, or some students doing all the work and others taking credit (which you get in regular group work as well).
Overall, I think this is a great program that I can use numerous ways in my classes.
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