Saturday, November 13, 2010

Thing #20 Google Docs

I'm the Instructional Specialist for Math and Science at McDonald so Google Docs is an essential tool for me that allows collaboration.  I've used this all year to share Science supply lists so I can go buy the items for labs with our students for each teacher.  My Science teachers get to the spreadsheet and fill in the numbers of each item they need for labs.  They can add items I might have left off or that they feel they need for the students for any labs.  As they complete them magically I have a list to take to Wal-Mart with me.  All I had to do was set up the spredsheet from our curriculum by lab and add them as editors.  I email them weekly so that they can look over the curriculum and update their list.  After the list is complete I do a Wal-Mart run.

I use the spreadsheet feature to keep track of target students and their Milestone and TAKS scores for teachers.  I update these lists after each Milestone and show how their scores changed each Milestone.  We have a TAKS prep class in Math and Science so I monitor those students as well.  This helps the teachers know which students need to have mandatory tutoring.

I use the Word document to create tests, use with my book study, and share teaching strategies I find.  As I do this teachers can perfect the document for their own use.

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