Have realized 2 other great uses for Google docs.
Firstly, to collect student contact and other details. I run the Duke of Edinburgh Award at my school and there is a lot of messing around trying to get kids emails locked down at the start of the year, as well as finding out what they are doing for their awards.
Secondly, for my science students to collaborate on group experiments. At the moment, group experiments that the students design themselves are rarely done as they are a nightmare to coordinate and regulate. With Google docs, groups could be assigned or select their own aim or hypothesis at the start of a topic. They could chip away at it online during the duration of the topic (perhaps as homework) with my comments acting as a guide. Once their method is ironed out, each student can carry out the prac on their own and it can act as one of several trials, to be averaged in with their peers. Thanks Google docs!
This sounds awesome! I like that these applications are available to students at home so that you can engage them in their homework with technology that they already use outside of school. You might want to look into Google Groups too, this could be even better for their projects if you want to have a discussion board type thing going on:)
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