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This is the first time that I have been introduced to Google Docs, and I am wishing that this wasn't the case. Last semester I was assigned a group research project, and we had to write a collaborative paper. For one, I am not a fan of the idea of having a group of four people write one paper. Everyone has different writing styles and it becomes nearly impossible sometimes to be able to work around everyones schedules to meet. However; I think that had I been introduced to this sooner, or had the professor recomend a tool such as this, that it could have solved some of those difficulties.
Since I am now more aware of this collaborative tool, I can see how different group papers and projects and papers would be a better idea. This would especially be nice for high schoolers and possibly even middle school students to be able to work as a group outside of the classroom. Many times students at this age would have a hard time meeting for transportation reasons. Also, since group work such as this could be a newer introduction, this would give the teacher the opportunity to give feedback throughout the assignment and the ability to guide them in the right direction.
Google Docs gives the students another opportunity to work with technology in the classroom, and expand their options when doing projects such as this.
This is the first time that I have been introduced to Google Docs, and I am wishing that this wasn't the case. Last semester I was assigned a group research project, and we had to write a collaborative paper. For one, I am not a fan of the idea of having a group of four people write one paper. Everyone has different writing styles and it becomes nearly impossible sometimes to be able to work around everyones schedules to meet. However; I think that had I been introduced to this sooner, or had the professor recomend a tool such as this, that it could have solved some of those difficulties.
Since I am now more aware of this collaborative tool, I can see how different group papers and projects and papers would be a better idea. This would especially be nice for high schoolers and possibly even middle school students to be able to work as a group outside of the classroom. Many times students at this age would have a hard time meeting for transportation reasons. Also, since group work such as this could be a newer introduction, this would give the teacher the opportunity to give feedback throughout the assignment and the ability to guide them in the right direction.
Google Docs gives the students another opportunity to work with technology in the classroom, and expand their options when doing projects such as this.
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