Learning 2.0 Web based applications #16 and #17

For this lesson we are learning about Web based applications. I have basically fallen in love with web based applications like Google Docs. You can create a spreadsheet, presentation (Google's version of PowerPoint) or word processing document and access it anywhere, share it with anyone and make edits. I have used it to write a conference presentation proposal with a group of people and we even used it to create our slide presentation. It allowed us to work on the documents independently at our own pace and still get the final product finished. It allowed us to NOT have another meeting. I think that our students at EKU would benefit greatly from a tool like this. So many of our students have to do group projects and students today are just so busy. Most of them have jobs, and lives that make it difficult for them to all get together and work as a group. If they had a group project they could all work at their own pace and get the work done without having to get together all the time to make the edits. If you have not used Google Docs, I highly recommend giving it a try!