In looking at the tutorials for goggle Doc I first looked at the overview of what Goggle doc is capable of doing. First it is free and no downloading is required. Second you do not need to store the docs on you computer. I do want to say at this point I am unsure of the amount of space avaliable to save. So at some point you may need to begin saving the on your computer. Google doc saves automatically allowing you to type without to much unrest. Like word you can file your documents in various folders. Last you can publish your documents directly as a web page.
Sharing which is a application Goggle docs allows you to share while you are typing with others online. There is some restriction that you can put and are already establish for this application. They consist of a limited list of people you can have on your sharing list, which is 200. You also can share with 50 of those people at a time. You also can put a owners only which allows people to edit your doc, but not share with others. There is also a feature that allows you to put various documents that any one with public access can view and share.
There are three other aspects of Goggle doc that we learned. First was creating a document. This is like word you click on file, hit new, and you will see a blank new page. Second uploading a file. Select file, upload and if it is not a goggle doc you can save it as one. Last was copying and deleting. This feature is a little different instead of using the control button and mouse to select multiple files to copy and delete. Google Doc has little boxes next to the doc, like email page is set up. You check the box and then delete. These are our finding on Goggle Doc.
LESSON PLAN:
The lesson plan I look at was an elementary Science plan on erosion. This plan gave good beginning instruction as long as you had some prior knowledge on what type of multimedia you were going to use. The teacher of this lesson plan had good Checklist on the three section that this project was broken into. These sections were a preliminary information, Research question, and how to come up with the solution. For the most part in my probably not so qualified opinion I though it was a well thought out and designed lesson plan.
Storage for Google is 7 GB, but documents that you create in Google Docs do not count toward that total. So, as long as one is working in Google Docs there is little worry about filling your space.
ReplyDeleteRegarding sharing, if one wants to share with more than 200 people, the last 150 of which can only view, anyway, it would seem just making it a web page might be just as well.
Your review of the lesson plan is fine. I am hoping folks will focus on the use of the Google Docs app in question in terms of how it is used in the lesson plan.
Thanks! :-)