Monday, April 22, 2013

Google Docs Talks

Well, really you talk and your comments get recorded into the Google Doc. Here is a video of how it works. It was created by a high school English running a paperless classroom, but the concept can be applied to anyone using Google Docs to collaborate. I already tried out the process to give feedback to a student, and the recording and playback worked perfectly for me. Now to try it out with more students and to see if this is concept that will spread to other classrooms. Let me know what you see as the possible application of voice recording into a Google Doc after you watch the video.


4 comments:

  1. I just keep learning new things about Google Docs. I'm really glad I got to experiment with them in this course. I can see they are a great tool and very beneficial and convenient. I really would like to try to use Google Docs with some of my older students. They often have to type essays and saving them can be a hassle sometimes. It would be amazing if they were automatically saved--a priceless feature of Google Docs!

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  2. I think this is a great tool! I too continue to learn more and more about the different components of Google and I have to say I am enjoying all the tools I have started to use so far. I can see using this tool for sure down the road.

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  3. This is a really great tool to have as a teacher. This allows teachers to be more involved with student progress when using Google Drive. This added feature allows teacher to do more than just make written comments on a document but to actually verbalize the comments. I love it!

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  4. I think that this could be a useful tool to use with younger students (even second graders!). They would be able to comment on a peer's work without having to do the demanding physical work of writing out a response, which can be especially hard for some of my kiddos with fine motor issues. Students would be much more likely to say a whole lot more about a peer's work if they didn't have to actually write out (or type out) comments.

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