Friday, November 9, 2007

Writing for School Awards...

For the past few weeks, myself and a few other teachers have been writing to receive a California Distinguished School award. Now, it's a long shot for our school who is in a high socio-economic area and has really no special needs or programs.

Regardless, we are writing on this committee. Sub after sub going through my classroom... and I happened to miss the last committee meeting for another math conference at our district. When I returned today, the document we were writing on was no longer on one computer and a flash drive, but on 3 different computers! It was even more frustrating to find out that all computers had versions saved on them, but were all in pieces. The old fashioned way of sharing the work turned into a nightmare that took about 1.5 hours to sort out before we could re-convene and start the writing process.

I suggested, and will continue to suggest Google Docs as a method and insist on using it for upcoming committee writings. Until then... sticking with the nonsensical many computers.

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