Activity 7 - Cloud Computing

Activity 7 - Cloud Computing

I am always amazed at the amount of time I can spend playing with one document and then look at it and think that it should have only taken me 15 minutes.  A lot of the time is spent on organizing my thoughts, looking back at what we have done in the past and trying to force Google to work like a WORD or Publisher document. 

For this activity I chose to create a team newsletter.  We all put time into creating our individual newsletter each week when over 50% of what we each include is the same.  My thought is taking that overlapping material and placing it into one working document which will save everyone time each week.  It also helps during those weeks where we may be forgetting to include something that we all had agreed upon.  My other thought is to have all of the monthly newsletters in a separate working documents in order to be able to place things in as they are talked about at meetings. 

My first thought was to actually use the weekly communication template that we all use and fill in the information as is occurs.  As I tried to do that, the sheet became to cluttered and did not leave enough room for daily homework notes or communication.  I changed to a monthly sheet with bullet points, therefore, making it easy to glance at and read.  I have some tweaking to do with my team, but feel this is a good starting point. 

Click here to view my "September - What's Happening in 2nd Grade" Google document.