Activity #7 Cloud computing

This summer, I have used Google Drive for 2 projects.
 The first: I am on the district Design Team for the all day kindergarten model. We are working on a document with all the priority ELA standards. At one meeting, we all had a Chromebook and our note-taker shared the document with everyone. As we made more and more changes, our note-taker would be typing a revision and someone would find another, and they could make that change simultaneously. One thing I really liked during this process, was that the name of the person typing (or even just hovering) showed up on my screen. So you kind of knew who to direct comments to, etc. We also used the comment function, as a way to make notes for "next steps" ...things we wanted to re-visit during our next meeting. This was a really efficient way to work with a group. And we all had a current copy of the document upon leaving.
 Second: we work to make balanced classes of incoming kindergarten students for the all-day classes. There are some specific things we divide out first, but then for the bulk of the kids, we divide them by their birthday month/age. In the past we have hand-written the lists. This year I had a chromebook at our first meeting, so opened a Google document and started typing the names onto the lists there. I shared it with the other teachers, and that night a colleague updated the boy/girl count. Next, we wanted to alphabetize the lists, so I made a spreadsheet in Google and started to enter the names.  Because I had shared the spreadsheets with my team, one of them finished entering the names for me! I love that we can work from school or from home, and we can work as a team. And the document is always there, without us having to send a bunch of emails.
 Here is a link to the ELA standards document (which is still a work in progress!) I chose not to link the class lists just because they have first and last names of students, and they are not finalized and have not been made public for families yet.

Link to ELA standards document (draft)