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Part I: How to use Google Docs for collaborative writing Part 2: How to use Google Forms for assessment Part 3: How to use Google Sites to create websites

Part I: How to use Google Docs for collaborative writing

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1. Learn something new 2. Learn something new that's useful and 3. helps you save time 4. Useful if you are thinking of doing collaborative writing

Students contribute to a common document Each person can see in real-time what others are writing Presents an opportunity for cooperative learning, but presents additional challenges as well

Google Documents is: accessible to all teachers accessible to all students too without needing them to log in (saves a lot of time) persistent (work done remains on the Internet forever)
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to https://sites.google.com/ a/moe.edu.sg/yigws/ Click on the first task.

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Is using a collaborative tool useful for your subject/topic? How can it be adapted to make it more useful?

Task: Create a Google Document that can be shared and worked on by students Step 1: Go to Google Docs website. Create> document Step 2: Click 'Share' (top right) Step 3: Copy the 'link to share' somewhere, maybe Notepad Step 4: Change 'who has access, private'. Use 'anyone with the link'. Step 5: Change Access: Anyone Can view. Save. 10 That's it!

You successfully created a document that can be shared with anyone. By using that link that you were given, you can create multiple documents and share it with specific students, e.g. groups of students
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Is using a collaborative tool useful for your subject/topic? How can it be adapted to make it more useful?

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Part 2: How to use Google Form for assessment

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1. You can create assessment questions with Google Docs 2. MCQs 3. Short answers 4. long answers (essays) 5. Scale questions (stronglyagree>>>strong disagree)
Try it now by clicking the second link on Google Site
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Go to Google Docs website. Step 1: Create form Step 2: Insert few quiz questions Step 3: Copy the link found at the bottom and paste it onto Notepad. Step 4: Click 'save'.
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Part 3: How to use Google Sites to create websites

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Why would you want to do this?

So that you can create an Internet webspace for you to display your lesson/tasks/instructions/Google Docs etc. Click on link 3 for a sample

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Go to Google Docs window and click on Sites at the top. Step 1: Click 'Create' Step 2: Click the pencil icon to edit the page. Step 3: Click 'share' to allow anyone to view the webpage. Step 4: Click 'save'

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Please fill in the survey at the blog.

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