Google Docs
Google Docs is an incredibly versatile tool. In addition to surveys and votes for staff, Google Docs allows special education teacher to create weekly information requests from their students' general education teachers that are quick to fill out, traceable, and automatically put into spreadsheet from. Tests can be created for your class, and automatically put into spreadsheet form. What a quick and easy formative assessment!
Google Hangouts
When I teach a group of teachers this summer, I feel this would be a great tool. While I am teaching, this could be an open forum for questions, comments, and concerns. In a classroom, some classrooms have a "parking lot" where students put questions for the end of class. In a tech-friendly classroom, this could be the equivalent...in a quick and easy format. This app could become the exit ticket of the future.
Google Earth
Many students seem to have a good grasp on the Social Studies concepts of neighborhood, city, state, and country, however, my students really struggle with this. The vocabulary word 'apartment' came up recently. The student looked up the word in the dictionary and had looked up pictures on google images, but still did not understand. The perplexing thing is, this student lived in an apartment. So, using Google Earth, I pulled up this student's apartment. In a stroke of luck, his mother's SUV was parked in front. I was able to show him the apartment and the path he took each day to school. I could not have done this before Google Earth without planning, cost, and permission forms. This made the concept relevant and real to him.
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