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For the Google Groups Assignment I was in a group with Emily Carroll, Kelly Johnson, and Rachel Reimsnyder. This assignment was actually really cool. We got to explore another feature from Google and Gmail. Google Groups is like a morph between a chat room and a Word document. Within Google Groups a group of people can simultaneously create, share, and edit a document.

A great way to implement Google Groups into the class room would be to use it in Literacy Circles for discussion of the book. Students would be paired in groups by choosing their preferred book from a list to read. Then, each group would create a Google Group using the name of the teacher and the name of the book and then discuss. Different types of discussion would be hypothesizing what might happen next, compare and contrast 2 characters, what message was the author trying to convey, or to discuss parts of the book that the reader didn't understand.

Using the Google Groups to discuss parts of the book the reader didn't understand meet the 1st NETS-T standard Facilitate and inspire students learning and creativity by promoting student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students conceptual understanding and thinking.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1s-oU0ciZydv-zz3M-XKBlAZ9dVKnOHS9Mu8I06KSSz8/edit?usp=sharing