Thing “20″ GoogleDocs 3
Posted by arlieosborne on March 14, 2009
K12 learning 2.0: Tools for 21st Century Teaching & Learning
THING “Twenty” (Session Nine)
Task: Exploring Google Docs…
My GoogleDocs Presentation – Slideshow Example. Please feel free to add more slides and update presentation. Student surveys reveal their favorite web hangouts. The survey information could be collected from a GoogleDocs Form accessible by students.
Many users are familiar with the presentation programs associated with Microsoft Office and the popular Open Office Suites. Even though the presentation component of GoogleDocs has less features and restricted in many ways than these applications, it is still a very nice way for students to collaborate on a slideshow presentation.
As a class project, each student could create one slide of their favorite food with a picture. When the slideshow is complete, then the teacher could show the final presentation to the class. Students could learn about the types of food that their classmates enjoy. They could also have a class party at the end of the project bringing samples from the slideshow.
Here is a tool, I just discovered this week that would allow teachers and students to be very creative in their collaborative efforts, especially in real time. It is called Dabbleboard. As an alternative to GoogleDocs Presentation, students have some interesting features to utilize in this free tool. Guests can chat and edit documents without having to create accounts. Documents and images can be inserted but not video which is possible in GoogleDocs Presentation.
“Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that’s actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Finally the whiteboard enters the digital age!” – Dabbleboard Main Page Description. Here is the above slideshow from GoogleDocs presented in Dabbleboard. Feel free to leave some grafitti on the slides!
Student Web Hangouts – Dabbleboard Version
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