Google Docs Group Project

The purpose of this assignment was to get us acclimated with Google Drawing.

At first I thought this was just a lame version of paint, and I was thinking art students would use Photoshop over this any day. BUT...The idea that students can work on the same project simultaneously is really unique and I believe it adds collaboration in a fun new way that I believe younger students are unfamiliar with. This collaboration could enhance learning especially for students who are a bit confused or lost. When paired with other students they can look at their work, derive a better understanding of what needs to be done, and expand upon it. For instance,  I like the idea that an artwork should never be in exact in your mind before you start a project.. I feel that this leads students to disappointment ( EX: I really want to make a realistic face, but when creating it they see its not like how they in vision it, they get upset, frustrated and generally give up). An assignment can be given for groups of three to create a face using Google drawing at home. Hopefully at the end of this lesson, the students first impressions of what they wanted it to look like will be very different. This is because the other students have their own idea as well and they all have to merge them together to create something, hopefully, that wasn't invisioned from the get go.

In terms of my contribution to the group, we all played around and created this image/text/nonsense document as an experiment. It was nice to do it at the same time in the classroom because I could turn to Andy or Megan and say 'hey how did you make that, or change that font?' We also made the notes open so we could all add something that we learned or thought was beneficial. Take a look at our masterpiece:



Well...I will post it in another window, having trouble getting it to post because it is from my Willamette site and it won't recognize it...bah