Google Apps (Whoaaa)

Google is a wild thing, eventually I think they my start there own from of government and gain power through a virtual overthrow spurred by surveys created in Googleforms. It is amazing a multibillion dollar company will offer all of these tools for free, the possibilities are endless for their uses in the classroom. Googlemaps is a great tool for history lessons, this way you can tangibly show students where certain events actually occurred, then media can be embedded so that your makes can actually be a teaching tool its self. Googleforms can help you evaluate your own teaching techniques through surveys. Students can also create surveys to easily gather information for projects and presentations. Googledocs allow students to collaborate while being in different areas, this is especially important in a rural state like Maine, students that attend the same school may live and hour away from each other. Googledocs allows them to work together on a project in real time through the Internet. Google has some of the most important tools on the Internet that are truly breaking down the barrier of distance. Our band has used Googledocs for over a year as a way to collaborate and work on music together while being in different places.