Week 8

This weeks assignments were very interesting! I really liked the sites for books. I've been getting into more personal reading since I've been taking so many classes. I really want to find a new series to read. I like books where I get connected to the characters. I created a Shelfari account and have been playing on it for a while! It's hard to think of all the books I've read to build a shelf. I love that it has the most popular, genre, subject and author sorts. I have so many books I would like to read now! When I was in the book store a few weeks ago, I started to read the one with the words, 'girl" and "tattoo" in the title. I just couldn't get into it but everyone's reviews are saying to stick with it!

Google Docs is a great idea to lessen the copies of documents and to communicate more effectively with others. I think this is great for a business but I don't know how I would use it in my classroom. I think for older students they could have their papers/homework on there and give the teacher access to them to grade. The teacher could edit and send it back for the student to fix. There would also be no excuse for not having a copy or for forgetting it at home if this way was used. As with sharing with other teachers I guess this could work where we don't have a lot of time to chat with each other. Then again, the other teachers need to feel comfortable with technology and that goes back to one of our first weeks of this class. I have some first day of school forms which could be helpful to other teachers. It is an interesting way to share files.