Google Docs- a great way for students to send teachers their draft work and get comments and feedback. Also great for group work and posting documents on the web. As a teacher, I would use this to post assignment descriptions on the web.
Google Presentations- a great way to easily share slides with students and parents. I would use this for story problem types of instruction or for breaking down steps to problems. Students can get the information from class online.
Google Spreadsheets- great place to create a spreadsheet for my students grades and assignment scores.
Google Forms- great for student surveys and questionnaires because it easily converts them to an easy to read format. I would use this to get student feedback at the end of the year and for students' feelings about the unit information throughout the year.
iGoogle- great site that allows me to check on everything by going to just a single page. I then can reply to emails, read blogs, manage my calendar, and check anything else that I add to the page.
Blogger- great place for students to summarize their notes and keep a personal journal of their thoughts and concerns concerning the content information. As a teacher, I can then read them and reply to any questions and address concerns where necessary.
Google Reader- makes reading all of my students/colleagues blogs easy by collaborating all the new and unread information right on my iGoogle page. This makes it easy to follow my students and grade their work.
Google maps- great way to find anywhere on the world. As a math teacher I could create a site about distances and direction that students could complete using this tool.
Google Earth- awesome virtual tour of the Earth while still sitting at my computer. As a teacher we could visit the sites where different math equations originated and maybe even the Rosetta Stone.
Groups- could be a great place for a class to work together in groups and get feedback from each other. As a teacher it is a great tool for cohorts/colleagues to work together on content material for class where we can all put in our input, comment on other's work, and edit the information.
Google Custom Search Engine- great way for teachers to limit the sites that students search through when working on specific projects. I would use this site to help students look for help and tools to complete their homework assignments and also to do a research project about the history of math. This feature could be very useful for other content areas that much more search based.
Notebook- a great tool to use while working and searching on the Internet, just like taking notes on paper of things you would find. I would have my students use this tool as they work through projects and papers on the Internet. There aren't a lot of math projects that are done this way but it would be a great tool for other content areas.
Google Scholar- a great place to search for reliable, accurate, and worthwhile information. This is a great place for students and teachers to get information from the web, especially since it takes all the junk websites out of the search.
I plan to use Google docs, Google spreadsheets, Calendar, Forms, iGoogle, Blogger, and Reader in my future classroom. These tools are very practical for a math teacher who wants a class website and wants to be able to get student feedback and responses. I like how these tools all work together and the ease of their implementation. I'm very impressed with the group work features and that I, as a teacher am able to edit and give feedback to students' work easily.
I can't see how Google maps, Earth, notebook, and presentations are very practical for inputting class notes filled with numbers, equations, symbols, and steps in a math classroom. I think they would be great resources for other content areas.
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