Saturday, November 12, 2016

Advantages On Using Google Docs For Educators Professional Development

By Donna Lee


Google Docs have given a great contribution on making the teachers become more effective when conducting their lessons for writing. By letting students write all of their papers in the Google Docs, they can help not only the product but as well as the processing. And to provide the most effective way of teaching, one must use WatchDoc, an extension of the Chrome browser.

The use if this WatchDoc is displaying the notifications into the browser every time there is someone who will update a document that has been shared. Also, whenever the student will be making an essay by the use of this application, a teacher can directly check on the status of that particular student. And though teachers will need to sit facing the computer for a longer time, surely, it is still worth it since the Google Docs for educators professional development will not benefit only the educators themselves but as well as the students.

Also, not only the students grades are improved but as well as their responsibilities for being one since the educator will be tracking them down, especially their works. And at times when they get to head into the wrong directions, the educator would immediately steer them back into the right ones easily. Educators also are able to leave comments on shared docs and these will be sent to collaborators.

The application would also let the educators send instant messages to some other parties who are in the document. So therefore, feedbacks can also be sent instantly. The students may also reply to the comments, and in this way, the editing processes will become a discussion instead of a lecture. Another important advantage of this is letting students share their works with their peers for editing.

A peer editing is very useful especially for educators since it allows them to watch over on the discussions made by the students for the editing process. Though the process can take a bit longer for the teacher on getting used to it and may take extra time, but an advantage here is making better collaboration and feedback, thus, may result to better writing.

This application has 10 main benefits for education when utilized. First, exams and tests. Google forms are used in order to create examinations like multiple choices and questions that are based from texts. Second, events and time tables. Making time tables and scheduling for upcoming events can be done and sharing it either to public or to selected users only for information.

Third is discussion. Groups and forums are also available to be able to track both the previous and the recent discussions. Fourth is documentation. This application is composed of a lot of innovative features which include add on, research, embed gadgets, etc. The end users are allowed to create documents and share it to multiple users. Fifth is reports or presentation. Sheets and slides are widely used for doing representations and calculations.

Sixth, tutorials and webinar. These 2 are best ways to be better in learning and in interacting. Seventh, feedback. Feedback and survey forms are created based on students and on parents.

Eighth is the control. Administrators have the right to control an entire setting for the application, sharing, and access. Ninth is having collaboration. Real time editing and sharing of documents may be done. Tenth is having communication. Users can easily communicate with colleagues through audio, video chat, text, or email.




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