Google Docs For Educators Professional Development

By Mattie Knight


Google Docs or Gdocs is arguably the most widely use cloud storage applications in the entire world. Teachers all over the world are getting the hang of this application slowly and have been using it in order to make their work better and more efficient. With document files, spreadsheets, slides, and forms, one can definitely use google docs for educators professional development and productivity.

Now education and teaching as a whole emphasizes a lot on collaboration with other teachers because there are times when two or more teachers will be working hand in hand with a certain project. In the olden days, teachers would usually create a Microsoft Word file, create a draft, then send it to their colleague and then vice versa until the document is finished. With this application, it is possible to actually work on the same project at the same time to save time on sending files back and forth.

There would be times that teachers would having meetings wherein they will be discussing policies, changes, and other things. Of course one teacher will not be able to take down all of the things that were said during the meeting so he or she would have to ask from colleagues. It is now possible to share these things easily by just sending the link to the document file.

Flash drives are often used by teachers so that they may access their files when they are using the school computers. However, there are those teachers who do not possess any flash drives at all. So if one does not have a flash drive, then what he may do is he can store all his files in his Google Drive and then just access the files when he logs into his Google account.

Powerpoints are very useful and is often the most utilized of all tools for teaching. However, there are times that even in the Powerpoint, there are mistakes. So if there is a mistake in the Powerpoint, and the teacher would want to change it so that he can use the correct one later on, he can use Google Slides instead of Microsoft Powerpoint so everything is changed real time.

Now for the teachers out there who would want to share notes with students after a class, this applications makes life easier. Instead of getting all the emails of the students and inputting them into an email one by one, just share the link of the file. This is so much faster and easier than doing it the old way.

Of course there are some teachers who are afraid that some students may change the content a little bit. To prevent this from happening, he can just make the file view only. This means that those with the link can only view without editing.

So as one can see, Gdocs is extremely useful for anyone. It is easy to use, practical and also safe as well. This is definitely a piece of technology that can increase the productivity and efficiency of educators.




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