collaborative Google Apps - Question 1, 9/22/09

I can think of a time when I had a lab going on in a Biology class that I was teaching and the data was a nightmare (although I always turn it around to "That's science" and how we discover new ways to do things or not to do things-its all a lesson!). Anyway, Period six (not surprising in that by the time period six did anything - we had worked out most of the kinks!!) had great data. I left the data on the chalk board for a bit in hopes that it would not be erased or vandalized. To have been able to put the data in google docs, the two classes would have been able to correspond, share, compare and add to eachothers findings - good or bad data. Period six could learn "what doesn't work"! I asked the earlier period to use period six's data. They could have corresponded with period six to ask questions as well.
An area where I could use the sites learned this week would be Science Club. We could have a Science Club Cite on google apps that would be collaborative. That would be really cool. I could also utilize it for forms (Parent signed lab safety sheets for example, handouts etc) for students to utilize. If they lose a handout, they could retrieve a new one here. The students could submint lab reports here where their lab partners could collaborate and make changes.