Nicole Winston: Module 5, Option 1

Google Docs

I chose to use google docs for my professional use with the teachers I coach for collaboration. When meeting with my teacher during orientation week, we discussed the norms for our middle school community of practice. Some of the norms the teachers wanted were: 

• agenda 24 hours in advanced
• one document that documented everything
• specific topics of focus
• the opportunity for everyone to add to the agenda and take notes

When brainstorming how to do this for this upcoming week, and then reading this module on collaboration I decided to create a google doc to accommodate everyone with this. I chose a google sheet because it is something that everyone can add to, delete and take notes on. The google doc I specifically chose  a google sheet because I can add tabs for each week of the year. Google sheet allows for more organization that way instead of creating a table of contents for each of the meetings in google docs. 

I also linked a google doc into the spreadsheet as well; which will also be used for collaboration. The google doc will be used next week in our community of practice for creating common language for our middle school classroom environment matrix using our new PBIS Matrix called SWAG. 

Making this digital collaboration spreadsheet allows everyone to have access to it and collaborate on a daily basis. It also allows for a quick and easy way to reference our past meetings when needed. This google sheet allows for the group collaboration and instant feedback (ITSE 2), the fact that they can research information (ITSE 3) and improving professional growth using technology (ISTE 5).