Working with Google Drive

 Welcome back to my tech blog!

This week we spent time playing with some important features of Google Docs. This encompassed sharing the doc with others, searching on google straight from the doc, gaining access to citations, and creating and navigating through a table of contents. Of course, there are many other Google functions available, but we decided to focus on these in particular. 

One way I could use Google's functions to support student collaboration is by having the students get into groups to work on an assigned project. Based on what project type it is, the students could use either Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides. In each one of these, they would have to collaborate with other students. One feature they could use is sharing the doc with each other so that they each can have access to the document. This will allow each group member to edit and use the doc as their own, but shared with the other members. 

Going off of that, a second way I could use Google's functions to support student collaboration is, on the same doc which I previously mentioned, I could have students work on their group project using citations. For example, if the group project requires them to conduct research and cite sources, they can easily do all of this directly in the doc. I think this would make it a lot easier for the students. This is because instead of trying to access library databases searching for articles and spending a great amount of time formatting the text, students can easily use the citation tool directly from the Google doc to produce the same results. This could save them time when they are submitting assignments last minute as well. (Been there, done that 😅)