Thing 16

How might you use this tool in your personal and professional life? Think of ways to use this tool with colleagues -- what benefits or challenges do you see?


I like the idea of creating community documents that can be edited by a group people working towards a common goal.  It makes a lot of sense as I have often fell victim to the whole gathering several edits and trying to bring it all together.  It is often a frustrating experience can often times end up with mistakes.  I could absolutely see my teams uploading curriculum maps, pacing guides, departmental policies, etc.  Really any "living document" would be an excellent choice to share with others.  I uploaded my football playback to share with the coaching staff I work with.  We are constantly updating and tweaking and I am the keeper of the file.  I find myself having to do all the clean-up and editing for a group of 6 coaches.  The only challenge is to get everyone to create a gmail account.  On our coaching staff of 6 it will not be a big deal, but a teaching staff of 40 is a task. Factor into district policy the discouragement of personal email accounts on the machines and it hits a dead end in my building.  I wonder if there is something our tech department could come up with to allow access but not open up the entire email concern.  Also the space limits Google has would at some point come into play.  This is an awesome tool with all kinds of potential, but there are many hoops to jump through in my district.