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hi this is Russell Stan art from teacher
training videos calm this is another of
my quick five-minute videos where I
introduce you to a technology and show
you why it's so useful in teaching and
learning and today we're going to focus
on Google Docs I'm going to show you how
to create a doc I'm going to show you
how google doc Doc's work both from the
point of view of the student and the
teacher so you can really understand
exactly how they work and then I'm going
to give you a few great tips about
working with Google Docs so let's get
straight into it now to work with Google
Docs you do need a Google account I've
signed into my Google account
I click here I go to the Google Drive
and Google Drive is basically like your
hard disk on the cloud on the internet
and you can see here all the folders
I've created to create a new document
all I need to do is click on new and
then simply choose the type of document
there are various ones today we're
looking at Google Docs so I'm going to
click on Google Docs the best thing when
you open up Google Docs is to
immediately give your document a name so
that you don't lose it documents are
automatically saved in your Google Drive
so first of all I'm going to prepare the
document and I'm going to put here ways
to reduce sorry pollution and then I'm
going to simply put title here can you
think of ways of reducing pollution and
what I'm going to do is do this as a
collaborative activity so the students
can just come on and write all their
answers here now all I need to do now is
to share this document with the students
I simply share the link and the students
can access the doc you might clicking on
the link and then writing their answers
the students do not need to have a gmail
account
sharing the document is really easy that
is give getting access to the document
to your students by simply clicking on
this button here share
then when you click on share the one
that you want to choose is get shareable
link you click here and this gives you a
link that you can then share with
students so what I'm going to do is I'm
going to choose that the students can
edit the document they can actually
write in it I'm going to click on copy
link now you need to share that link
with the students you might need to put
it in a blog or put it in it model or
put it in Moodle you need a way of
sharing the link with the students now
let me show you what happens from the
students point of view so I'm going to
log in on another account so I'm just
going to pretend I'm a student now just
I'm going to obviously the student needs
the address of this particular link they
click on it and the document will
actually open on the students computer
and then the students can start writing
in their idea so I'm going to say here
reduce the number of cars okay so that's
my contribution or my group's
contribution and I can obviously put
some more ideas down here use bikes in
the center of the city okay
etc etc now let's have a look what the
teacher sees well all those changes if
we just click that button down I've
already been added to the teachers
document so you can see that students
can collaboratively work on a document
really quickly now I'm going to point
out in a just a few tips on how you can
actually do this a little bit better
but that's basically how Google Docs
works and remember that your students
can add in pictures they can add in
tables they can do all sorts of things
within the document you've got all these
different things here that you would
find it basically images drawing charts
etc that you would find in any kind of
word processing tool so let's just give
you a few tips on how to do this a
little bit better let's imagine that
you've got five groups let's imagine for
example that you're working in the class
well what I would tend to do is to
actually produce a little table and I
would produce a table with five
different boxes I move this over here
and then I'm going to tell group one to
put their answers here group two to
write their answers here group three to
put their answers here and etc now this
really means that basically the document
is a little bit more organized because
one of the things that happens when you
work with the document is that people
start writing all over the document then
I would make this a little bit bigger so
that there's plenty of space for
students to work in their groups and to
write their answers in now of course
this could be done at home because the
students can all access the document
from home you might even want to make it
bigger than that it doesn't really
matter if they don't complete it so you
could just add a make it a couple of
pages long but it simply means now if
any one of the students from Group one
logs in they know that they write their
answers here group to write their
answers here and I often do this in
class as well and obviously only needs
one student to actually have Google Docs
and to have access to a computer that
student logs in and the students
discussing groups and the one student
who's got access to the computer can
write in their answers etc etc so that
really gives you a quick idea of just
how useful and how simple it is to work
with Google Docs series a lot more to
the technology but that is just a quick
tip on why it's such a useful technology
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