Another first grade teacher and I have been using this spreadsheet for a number of years. She created it as an Excel spreadsheet to help with tracking/data collecting for all the first grade teachers. I transferred it to Google drive because we started having issues with saving and resending the spreadsheet too many times. It got rather confusing trying to keep all the copies or copying/pasting back into one doc again! As a grade level there were many times that the scores was sorted or saved incorrectly, and that created a ton of work!!
We enter student scores each month from AIMSweb. This helps us track and create our guided reading groups. It's helpful that we can just enter scores online instead of emailing the spreadsheet back and forth. We've found it super helpful that we can both look at the document at the same time, while on our own computers. It also helps us to make decisions about our groups - do we need to change a few students around because of growth, should we change teachers, etc.
I do think that cloud computing is helpful for teachers to share/edit documents related to their grade levels. I find that creating a doc in the drive is sometimes cumbersome. Drive doesn't seem to have all the features like Word or Excel does. That can be frustrating, I think.
Reading Spreadsheet
A document like this is a perfect example of the benefits of Google Drive! You're right, Drive doesn't have all the features of Microsoft Office, but the collaborative piece is a huge benefit.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is helpful to share documents, particularly data through Google Drive, so you don't get confused with versions and changes made. I too have struggled with the fact the Google Drive does not have the same features as Microsoft - hopefully overtime they will - the word docs have already improved :)
ReplyDeleteHi Shannon!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this. I know you guys are awesome... this shows it even more! Have you shared this with others who record AIMS scores as well? See you soon!