Using Google Docs for Shared Student Note-Taking

Google Docs is an excellent tool for online students to collaborate. This simple word processing tool allows for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration. Using the model of collaborative note-taking students are able to perform many different roles to create a rich set of resources all done on-line. Matthew Lungerhasen talk here about his use of Google Docs in his note-taking assignments.

Demonstration on How to use Google Docs for Class Note-Taking

Check out this video on Google Docs How To for Faculty Exchange to replicate the class note-taking assignments. This YouTube content is rather detailed and you may want to play this in full screen.

Other Resources

Overview of Google Docs