Google Docs

My Google Drawing:  Doodling for Googling


My classmates and I created a collaborative drawing using Google Docs, a program that allows you to create documents, presentations, and drawings in an online space that can be viewed and edited simultaneously from several different people in different locations.  In a previous class, two students and I wrote a collaborative poem using Google Docs, and it was a great experience to be able to see your group members' thoughts and ideas when we were all in our respective homes.  In this class we created a two-voice poem to highlight the growth in a character in a book we had read.  I think I could do a similar project in my classroom.  Collaborative 2-voice poems are fun to write because they require deep thought into multi-faceted characters.  Doing one on Google Docs allows students to contribute ideas, edit each other's work and feed off of what other students are creating.