Journal 7: Collaborative Documents

The tool that I researched while on Classroom 2.0 was collaborative documents.Collaborative documents are forums where students can work together and share ideas on projects from their own computers and personal convenience. The forum that I researched was “Wiki or Google Docs”. Kendra Larmour wants to incorporate some kind of collaborative site so her students can work together on projects. Both sites allow students to contribute and work together on projects but allowing them to do it from their own homes or computers. Larmour asked for comments on the difference between Wiki and Google Docs and wanted to know which would be best to use in her class. Some peoples comments were that using Google Docs was a great way for collaboration and each member of the group could be working on it at the same time but sometimes it can be hard to distinguish who did what part of the project. A resolution to this problem and stated by assigning colors to the group members to see who did what. Others said that Wiki was a great choice because the revisions made show in the history but only one member could be on at a time. After reading over all of the comments the majority was Google Docs for collaborative work this seems to be the most beneficial to the groups. This was the first time that I have used Classroom 2.0 and I can see why this is such a useful site. With technology emerging in the classroom at a rapid pace this allows teachers to ask questions and work together on finding the most beneficial sites or tools for their classrooms.