I now use it with students who I tutor after school so that they can let me know about assessments that are coming up and they share their documents with me so I can prepare material for them and also give them feedback on how they are going. In particular It has been a great tool for a student I tutor with Aspergers. She was having issues loosing her usb drive, forgetting which computers she had saved her assignments on and also wanting myself, her mother and her teachers to check her assignments. Being able to upload and share Google docs has been a wonderful organisational resource for her. She is also now using iGoogle to store bookmarks we collect during research and she can access them from home, school and the library.
As a teacher, working collaboratively on documents is something we do on a daily basis. So having an online storage and sharing site such as google docs is fantastic. Being able to add student grades and diagnostic testing results online and share it with the relevant parties would be incredibly convenient. I do worry about privacy issues though, storing school files and student details on line. How easy is it for a third party to access these files? Another issue is that some of the tools on google docs are very basic. I have had some issues using tables and speadsheets.
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