Comments on: Introducing Google Docs to the Class

By: tomgbarrett

tomgbarrett — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:43:59 +0000

Hi Suzanne - thanks for the comment, the best thing for Google tools in the
classroom is to sign up for Ed Apps,
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.... which is free and allows
you to administer multiple accounts etc. Hope this helps.

By: Suzanne Bartel

Suzanne Bartel — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:52:24 +0000

What are some of the options for signing up the students for google docs? do you have to validate each account? do you need a separate email for each student? What has worked best?

By: tomgbarrett

tomgbarrett — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:12:04 +0000

Hi Karen – I am so pleased to see that this is proving useful for you – let me know how things go.

By: Karen Kliegman

Karen Kliegman — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:04:59 +0000

Thanks, this is very timely as we are finally going Google in my school! Love your ideas.
Karen Kliegman

By: Allanah K

Allanah K — Sun, 09 May 2010 16:45:10 +0000

I am taking your idea and running with it on tomorrow's field trip to the rocky shore- after gathering population count data in the inter-tidal zones we will collaboratively build a spreadsheet and we can all see the data that everyone else has collated.

Outstanding

By: Mark Allen

Mark Allen — Sat, 08 May 2010 18:06:24 +0000

Excellent stuff, Tom: I'm at the same sort of stage although I'm not a full-time teacher or even a teacher at all and have just sort of got 'sucked into' teaching Years 2-6 ICT an hour a week each. I created a Google Apps domain for the school a couple of years ago and the kids are quite fluent in Google Docs – getting the staff and governors onboard is taking longer! Funding for our VLE runs out this year and I always hated it anyway, preferring a mashup of free Web 2.0 tools. In fact, I relegated the VLE to the role of 'safe container', embedding third-party web services in it. Over time, though, the need for the VLE seems to have receded: it feels like we have a perfectly coherent ICT approach without it. What do you use? Love to chat to you about it, and the embedding of ICT until it becomes invisible, sometime – although you're such a busy blogger I don't know how you'll have time!

By: Lucy Thorpe

Lucy Thorpe — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:19:09 +0000

Really helpful post – I am going to try out my first collaborative Google Doc lesson next year. Your advice will be really useful and having read your post I have decided to be less ambitious with the content of the document on the first trial run and to make sure I have set up all the accounts etc. so that in the lesson proper we can concentrate on the collaborative side.

Thanks for the advice

Lucy T – aka missmoo72

By: Lucy Thorpe

Lucy Thorpe — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:19:09 +0000

Thanks for the advice

Lucy T – aka missmoo72

By: Ian Simpson

Ian Simpson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:39:11 +0000

Really informative post Tom – thanks for sharing not only your ideas, but also your issues when implementing. Hope this continues to go well!

By: MrsAdam

MrsAdam — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:01:32 +0000

Thanks for the great post.
Is there a cost for setting up an entire class? Did you have to have a separate email account for each student, or can the teacher set up a main account for the class and then add students?