It seems to be all about the Google at school these days. Even our last professional development day was all about Google. Goodle Docs, Forums, Groups, Presentations... we were immersed in Google.
So, always willing to try something new and take a risk, my Science Colleagues and I created a wonderful collaborative Google activity for our Science X students to do as they studied elements and the periodic table. We generated a template with the numbers 1 through 96. The plan was for students to choose 3 elements, research them, and then use the template to make informational slides for each element. We thought that the kids would need at least 3 slides per element. It was going to be GREAT!
But after I introduced the activity to the students and they got all excited about it, they jammed the server and the Google presentation was nearly inaccessible. Students used shortcuts that deleted work done by other students. Photos were hard to load. Slides could not be added. Yikes! In the end, students would up learning about their elements, and they logged into our collaborative Google presentation from their own homes and worked on the activity as homework. It seems that when there were fewer users on the site at one time, it worked better. Linked below is the not-quite-final product. I still need to edit it and re-order some of the slides.
All in all, it was a great idea, but didn't go as planned :(
Elements are Everywhere
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