

The list of languages is pretty exhaustive so you would be hard pressed to be looking for a language that isn’t available. This feature can be found under the Tools tab. Letter Translation: Letters home can now be translated for non English speaking families. Check out my post on Maintaining Student Working Portfolios with Google Drive. Creating individual folders to organize their writing assignments is also good for organization and being able to review for evidence of growth of skills. Student journals: Common Core writing standards call for students to engage in both short and long term writing projects. You can also create a rubric to help guide the peer editing process. Be sure to allow for comments in the share settings. Now it can be done with the share option. Peer editing: When I started in teaching, peer editing consisted of students passing their paper to somebody else in the group so they can make comments and so on until all parties have read and offered feedback on each other’s papers. Meeting minutes: The faculty senate at my high school uses Google Docs so they can share meeting minutes quickly using a Google contact group they create at the beginning of the year. I address this by referring to their notes during class discussion in order to point out any errors for correction. Students usually express concern initially about errors by their peers. They divide up the topics and take notes on their chosen topic. Documents can be saved as read-only so teachers need to make a copy thus saving the original copy.Ĭlass notes: I allow students to take collective notes. Teacher Document Collaboration: Another good way for teachers to take advantage of the features of Google Docs is for teachers to collaborate or share student documentation and forms.

This is a good idea because of the collaborative capabilities of Google Docs.

Lesson Plan Collaboration:Teachers can use Google Docs to share lesson plan ideas. For this post, I wanted to narrow my list to just Google Docs because the list would have to be extremely long to cover the possibilities for all Google Apps in any real depth. There are many ways that Google Apps can be used to streamline your teaching. 2 7 Cool Ways To Use Google Docs in your Teaching
