I use Google Docs for everything in my school. I have set up folders just like a computer and you can save everything in the "cloud". Therefore, you are not using any of the memory on your computer. The part that is really nice is that I can work on something at school and then finish it at home or vice versa. I can get the documents that I am working on at any computer. I do not have to save them to a zip drive or email them to myself. Therefore, if something happens to your computer, you will still have all of your documents. Google docs allows you to make word documents, presentations, excel, and many more type of files. I also have a Google Website. I can link my pages of my website to the files that I have in my Google Docs. Then when I make a change to the file on Google Docs, it automatically updates my website! I don't have to update anything twice!
The only down fall that I have found so far is that I can not get my SMART board lessons saved on Google Docs. However, I can save all of those on Drop Box. The only problem with drop box is that you have to have all of the programs on the "other" computers that you might be using. Therefore, if you don't have word on a computer, you can not work on a word document. Google Docs has its own programs therefore you can use them everywhere!
Sumo paint is new to me. But as soon as I started playing with it I saw a lot of different ways that I could use it in my Geometry Class. In the picture below I made a tessellation I could have my students figure out how many degrees the figures are moved, name the figures, and tell me what properties they have in order to make them the shape they say they are. You could use a lot of other shapes also. It was very easy to save on my computer. However, outside of having students creating their own pictures or looking at pictures I create, I don't know the other uses that I would use it for.
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