Challenge: Google Docs

I created a Goggle Doc to share with my teaching partners that is a working list of all of our Title 1 Reading groups. While this may seem mundane, I am hoping that this will really help us with organization. In the past, one of us has been in charge of making one list or another which has lead to multiple versions, not knowing which is the most current, and not having access to copies when you need them.

Honestly, I have a decent amount of experience with Google Docs so it was quick and easy to use. Having the time to create this was nice though because we don't tend to do new things at the beginning of the year. The likelihood of us transitioning to Google Docs for all our shared work just went up dramatically!

The only thing I found challenging was the small changes from Word to Docs in the formatting toolbar. I couldn't find where to make the margins narrower and the formatting for tables is also different which was just a little annoying.

I honestly really enjoyed having the time and reason to do this over the summer before the cray beginning of the year rush.

I created this doc with the intention that we start to share all of our docs on Google so that we all have access to the things we create for our team. I think it will streamline a lot of processes for us. I plan to use this with my team. I have also been thinking about using this more with my 6th grade students for shared activities in writing group. They are highly motivated by using their Chromebooks at school so I think they would enjoy having an excuse to do an activity on them in group.