Documents Online, Web 2.0

Google Drive

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Google Drive (aka Google Docs) allows students to work together on projects via "sharing." This means that students can work with peers in their own classroom, in another school, and even in another country on collaborative projects. It also makes it possible for students to work on one assignment from multiple places with online cloud storage. Thus making it possible to work both at school and at home without having to email or use a flash drive.

Google Docs also makes it possible for teachers to critique students' work online without having each student print an assignment to hand in. Instead, they can just share the document with their teacher for grading.

Padlet

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Padlet is similar to Google Docs in the way that it allows many people to write at the same time. It can be used for group projects (to share many ideas at one time) or for feedback to the teacher. This website allows for the posters to be either anonymous or named, which can help teachers receive feedback as well as use the website to have students answer questions at the end of class or at the start of class. By doing this teachers are able to gauge how effective the lesson was and how much of the information the students learned and retained from lesson to lesson.





Trello

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Trello is a site that allows students to organize their work. This online tool creates "cards" that organize materials based on what list the user puts them in. Students could create to-do lists for homework, organize group projects, and keep track of sources for papers. Unlike the other two, this tool would be most useful at a high school age level (the others can be used with all ages), where time management skills are most essential. This tool will help students create a plan for how to manage their time, a skill that is useful beyond the classroom and into real life and the workplace.