Learning Logs (September 9)

Today in class we learned how to utilize google tools. We chose groups and were assigned to do research on a ceratin topic. We then began to use WIKI. At first I was sceptical about what was going on. I was so confused at who was typing what and what we were talking about, but then someone suggested to do google chat as well. When we started doing google chat it was so much better. It was easier to communicate through google chat because first of all it already had our name on it and second of all it was way faster. So we finally got the hang of the google documents. I really liked the google chat because I could be talking to someone and researching something else at the same time.
I beleive that using WIKI in my classroom would be a great tool for my students to learn to utilize. They could do projects together through WIKI. Also I think that google chat would be good to use if they were on the computer at the same time that way they could discuss things without really talking out loud. Now that could either way they could be talking about things that pertain to class and then they could be talking about things that don't pertain to class. I can't wait to use WIKI with my classmates and do projects. I think that it will be a great tool to use in my education and in my classroom.