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Parents Evening Using Google Docs.

July 15, 2008 · 2 Comments · Google Docs, Tools

Arranging the timetable for parents evening can be a real hassle in terms of the communication that is involved.   Parents keep asking for times that are taken and cancelling others, often leading to a mass of notes flying backwards and forwards between teacher and parent.   This year I decided that it would be different… As [...]

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Scriptwriting in Google Docs

June 29, 2008 · 1 Comment · Google Docs, Literacy, Writing, Year 6

 AIM: To write a collaborative play script using Google Docs WHY: Writing using Google Docs should allow the teachers and children to work on the script in their own time without having to be together. Using the Forms should allow all the children to contribute their ideas to the script. The children should have a [...]

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Further adventures in Google docs.

June 11, 2008 · 10 Comments · Google Docs, Literacy, Year 6

After the excitement of yesterday and the progress that I made (further enhanced with some collaboration with Tom Barrett)  I decided to have a go at an idea that was buzzing around my head. AIM: To see if the forms in Google docs can be used to bring pupil’s work together in one place raise standards, [...]

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Result – Self Marking Spellings in Google Docs.

June 10, 2008 · 13 Comments · Google Docs

Whilst messing around today I suddenly thought to myself “What if you could use the forms in Google docs to set up a spelling test that would mark itself?” WHY? To make life much easier for the teacher and save time marking repeated spelling logs. To show any patterns in spelling mistakes. To give the [...]

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Google Docs (part 2.) including Dipity

May 20, 2008 · No Comments · Google Docs, History

We had a really successful few lessons recently using shared documents.   The children collaborated on a shared document to find out information about the life of John Lennon.  There was some fantastic stuff going on in the classroom and everyone was totally engaged.   There were of course still frustrating issues with bandwidth / speed but they [...]

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Google Docs in the Classroom

May 15, 2008 · 7 Comments · Google Docs, History

Inspired by Tom Barrett and his comprehensive blog on using Google docs I decided to have a go at my own project with my year 6 children. Aim To use Google docs to create a shared word document relating to our History topic which was post war history through the eyes of John Lennon. What Happened First [...]

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