Google Documents is a place where author's can put up their writings and invite other people to share their work. The author can choose whether or not they would like the viewers to just view or edit the writing as well. I think this is a great way for students to work together outside of the classroom. For instance, I have the experience of working in groups for projects were every sends each other four different versions of the powerpoint or word document. Now, everyone can just be working off of the same document where everyone can see the changes that they are making from their own computer.
In the classroom there are many ways in which a teacher could incorporate this into their lesson plans. For instance, if the students were doing a science experiment in the classroom. Instead of the teacher making this big large chart on the board where everyone fills in their data then each person copies down the data, they now can all go into the Google Document to add their data. This way each student will have access to the work and can edit if they need it.
In my classroom, I think I would have students type their stories or upload their writings in Google Documents and have them share them with me. This way I could see the process of each students writing without having 30 documents printed off or sent to me through e-mail. I can go in as I please, without the students knowing when I'm going to be looking, making sure they are staying on task.
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