Thing 16

How might you use this tool in your personal and professional life? What issues come to mind about using this tool with students (ie, they need email addresses to log-in)?


In case you're reading, I skipped adding an RSS feed and cleaning-up Bloglines (Thing 15). It was just confusing to me. I'll add it later (though I now realize as I'm typing this that my report on Thing 15 will be out of order!). I did take time to browse and enjoyed reading some of the information in the 2 Cents worth blog -- very interesting

Google Docs is very cool. I searched a bit and found the help section very user friendly -- thank goodness, because this stuff doesn't come easily to me. It was wise of you to let us explore on our own instead of giving us a tutorial online because we'll have to be off on our own using these applications once we finish this course. I wish the 23 Things page would stay active after Dec. 12th so I can click on the buttons and get to the web sites easily!

Google-Docs could be very useful to me. When I'm working on a shared document with someone in my personal or professional life, it would be so easy to work on it together by accessing this site. Students would have to have all the e-mails in order to use this easily. Perhaps they could be posted on a web page. I see this as useful for group work. So often students can't (or won't) get together for one reason or another. With this tool, as long as everyone had access to the internet, they could all work on a document and share it without having to be in the same place at the same time. I also like the fact that the document can be accessed on any computer -- no more need to e-mail something to work that I started at home. By saving it on Google-Docs, I can access it without taking that extra step.