Huggins Happenings

This tool has been a lot of fun.  I can think of many ways to use GoogleDocs, but know that there are many more out there.  I’m a spreadsheet kind of girl so two ways that immediately come to mind are using it as a way for my students to check themselves off as they complete assigments – like we do with this course.  It saves me a lot of time and energy to be able to see, at a glance, the progress that each child is making.  I used the spreadsheet to make a “Conference Sign Up” sheet.  I’ll use this when conference time rolls around as a way to have my parents sign up for conferences.  They can easily see if dates are taken, and if they need to switch times, they know exactly what times are available.  Saves tons of work on my end!  Word documents could easily be used at the end of Social Studies/Science units for children to reflect on what they have learned.  These items could be printed and bound into a class book.  It could also be used to create a class book where groups of children are given certain parts of a topic to research and then add them together.  Personally, I would love to use it to make a monthly class newsletter that is created completely by the students.  I’m excited about this one!