Hey, my name is Matthew McGee. I want to be a teacher one day. I am currently a student at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama. I am ending my third year of college this semester. I attended Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Gautier, Mississippi for two years prior to moving to Mobile and enrolling at USA.



Saturday, May 1, 2010

I'm a Google user!

Google has so many useful tools that I was unaware of before attending Dr. Strange's class. I had only used Google as a search engine before all this, but now I use it for a lot of my other classes and would like to incorporate it into my own classroom one day.

I use:
  1. Gmail
  2. Google Earth
  3. Google Docs
other tools within Google Docs, including
  • Document
  • Presentation
  • Spreedsheet

I aslo use

  1. Blogger- which is offered through Google
  2. Google Sites
  3. Youtube- which is also part of Google

Google owns EVERYTHING

Google Docs is the best! One can have several collaborators adding information or even correcting mistakes to a particular document. It is all online and can be accessed anywhere! It's all "real time" too! Meaning when someone updates it, it is instant. A good example is the outline my group members and I had for our podcast. There were several things we were going to discuss and had no idea who would say what or in what order. Through our Google document, we arranged and rearranged what was being said by who without ever sitting down and scribbling a bunch of ideas on paper. It was very helpful and much more organized than the traditional methods I used earlier in my education. The best part is that all the tools Google offers are FREE!

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