Peer Review

I had heard about 'Google Docs' before this class but never bothered to learn what it meant or what it could do. Turns out, it appears to be an extremely useful tool for writing, editing, and reviewing. For me, the process was simple and I found no complications. I wish I had known about this sooner and feel other classes could adopt the tool as well. Sure it adds to our dependency on modern technology, but it just seems to be so damn useful. Professor Krause pointed out today in class that 'Google Docs' does not read footnotes very well, but that is only one minor setback. I will say, however, the format it uses is different from what I am used to (no double spacing, spread out to fit the whole screen) but keep in mind these are drafts we are working on. This is a useful tool for contributing to the text itself, not the format.
Adding comments to the text is my favorite part. It's much easier than trying to deciver someones handwriting scrunched into the margin of a page. Also, the ability to highlight and strikeout is great. Finally, the 'revision history' is very useful as you can easily to back to the original piece and see where and when a person has put in their two-cents.
All-in-all, I found 'Google Docs' as easy to use tool with a considerably small learning curve. I will consider using it in the future and possibly in my own classroom.

My only word of advice----make sure all students share their files with their gmail names. Using their emich names seemed to cause much confusion and problems.