I really enjoyed looking at the award winners. I have used several of those listed, but there are many that I have never tried. One of the award winners that I think would be very helpful at school is Google Docs.
Currently, the teachers in our county have to post all weekly plans on a county wide share file; this file can only be accessed from a school computer. It would be great to be able to share these files on the internet, so that teachers could enter their plans from any location where a computer and internet connection are available.
Similarly, our midterm grade reports (generated by each team of teachers at the midpoint of each 9-week grading period) and ICU reports (a before and after school study hall which provides intensive care for students with "sick" grades) can only be accessed from computers at school. We actually have to make a schedule to enter midterm grades in order to give everyone access during regular school hours. Without constant updating the ICU file is useless. These programs could easily be uploaded as a Google Doc file and our team of teachers could access these files from anywhere and at anytime.
In addition, students would find Google Docs very useful when it comes to partner or group writing projects. I think that they would really enjoy the fact that they can all have a say in the editing process instead of relying on the anchor in the group or the volunteer document typist to do all editing and revising. Finally, I think my students would enjoy all that this would bring to the process of publishing a hall newsletter or newspaper.
And….it’s free!
http://docs.google.com/#all
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