Using Google Document to share your writing

The good new thing I learn today is how to use Google Docs to share my document and ask my colleagues to work on it together without being in the same room. Here is the video on how to use this tool.

Now, as English teachers, we can always use this tool to help our students develop their writing skills by having them write in a group. Students can interactively change ideas and correct each other using Google Document. 

Now, let us try using this tool for students assignment below:

Assignment for students

Source: http://jerrygarrett.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/uss_arizona_memorial.jpg

Above is the picture of USS Arizona Memorial which is situated in the famous historic site in Hawaii, the Pearl Harbor.

1. In your group, using Google Document, you are required to write about this historic site and other interesting places that you can find here. Your group must come out with an essay of 200 - 300 words.

2. In your essay, please include images and a map on how to get there (you can use Google map for this purpose).

3. Once your essay has been shared and edited together by the group members, share your essay with your teacher to be marked.