Yes, Google Docs is a useful and powerful tool for International
collaboration. This is why I encourage others to have a Gmail account
so they may access other powerful personal and group productivity
tools. There are many in Cambodia who have no idea how just a few
simple changes in their thinking will cause their productivity to
sky-rocket.
This is why working with younger students is easier. They listen to me
more deeply. Older students tend to think they know already, or they
don't understand and give up.
Because they are older they are less confident or likely to ask
questions. They don't want to show how much they don't know. It's
safer to be quiet. Of course teaching is an interactive process -
learning is something we do on our own.
I do hope we can collaborate more on Google Docs. Google Docs in
conjunction with Skype is an extremely powerful
and effective group brainstorming tool. Participants can be located
throughout the world while verbal discussion and on-line note taking
can be made in real-time for all to see. The on-line document becomes
as a white-board where all participants can contribute.
This is the future of teaching.
By the way, check out this video :
http://www.dibella.biz/media/education/
Also, for example, I placed an audio file in your Google Docs
directory. As you know, this could easily have been a personal
dictation. Google Docs offers simple and easy solutions for a variety
of distance-networking problems. Again, this is the future of
education. Another term used is "Cloud Computing".
My Cambodia directory :
http://tinyurl.com/pub-ggl-docs
Charles
