Step 1:What are Google Docs?

Step 2: What are some ways you can use Google Docs in your classroom?

Step 3: How are educators using Google Docs?

Step 3: Practice

Create a new document, select a research topic, and brainstorm in Google Docs

1. Team formulation of 2 people: a blue bird and a red bird.
2. The blue bird opens a new document, name it, save it and share it with the red bird and with the instructor.
3. As a team, pick a single topic to research together. It will be "The 5 best {your topic here} in the Bay Area." Pick something like places to eat, surf, visit a park, or where to get a great burger or an authentic pizza. Pick something simple that will give you easy searchable results.
4. Write the topic on your document.
5. Brainstorm (previous experience and knowledge)  a list of what you think are the best, based on what you know now.
6. Next, brainstorm a list of key words for research on your document
7. Now it's time to prove it! Watch this video about searching the web
8. Research and save your notes in Docs
9. Finished with research? Have a talk with your partner and discuss how you will show what you know about your topic - convince your audience!
   

Reading Online Text

Step 1 - What is a Voicethread?

Create your account then make it an educational account.

Make a Google Sites
Take the Google Sites tour. Follow the instructions in the activity below.