Michael Senise

Links to Online Resources for Google Docs

Workshop Overview

Google Docs is different and a great addition to any classroom! 

Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editor that 

enables you and your students to create, store and share instantly and securely, and collaborate online in 

real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and

presentations. There’s no software to download, and all your work is stored safely online and can be 

accessed from any computer.

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs 

has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and 

practical way.

The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and 

edit documents. You’ll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill 

the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple 

revisions and peer editing.

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Goodle Docs, as well as tips and tricks for using it in the classroom with

your students. 

How Students and Teachers can use Google Docs

Teachers are using Google Docs both to publish announcements about upcoming assignments and to monitor student progress 

via an interactive process which allows you to give guidance when it might be of maximum benefit – while your student is still 

working on an assignment. Through the revisions history, you can see clearly who contributed to what assignment and when; if a 

student says he or she worked on a given project over the last two weeks, it will be documented (no more “dog ate my homework” excuses).