This dissertation shares findings from a descriptive case study that examined an experienced teacher’s facilitation of a collaborative story writing project using Google Docs in a culturally and linguistically diverse Grade 11 English class. An expanding body of research supports the use of web-based writing tools and peer collaboration for promoting writing skills development, yet there is little research examining how these practices are integrated within the broader teaching and learning process. In the present study, sociocultural theory provided a guiding framework for exploring the complexities inherent in the teaching and learning process as students worked in pairs (and one triad) to write a story about “the future” to be shared with an audience of upper level elementary students. Data sources included field notes taken during 16 class observations, pre- and post- project interviews with the teacher, on-going reflections written by the teacher, focus group interviews with the students, and the students’ collaborative projects stored in Google Docs. The findings cohered around five key themes that describe the teacher’s facilitation of the project: (1) incorporating procedural facilitators, including mentor texts and web-based writing applications; (2) adopting a socio-cognitive apprenticeship model to guide students toward higher levels of proficiency with narrative writing; (3) building a community of practice through peer collaboration, peer sharing, and peer editing; (4) enabling a positive and productive learning environment; and (5) transitioning to a new curriculum. The findings from this study also shed light on the affordances and constraints associated with the pedagogical supports, the collaborative context, and the use of Google Docs as integral components of the project. The dissertation concludes with recommendations for educators who are interested in integrating collaborative story writing projects or web-based writing tools within their classroom contexts. / Graduate

Collaborative writing technologies such as Google Docs is believed to be a helpful tool in supporting the development of constructivist learning environments. However, not much research has been done among special populations outside the United States. This dissertation examines how using google docs can enhance collaborative learning among non-native English-speaking students at a university in Oman. A total of 52 students participated in this study, where they completed a collaborative writing activity using Google Docs. This exploratory study yielded quantitative as well as qualitative data. Interviewees shared their experience of using Google Docs for the collaborative writing activity. The research shows that Google Docs promoted collaborative interactions among students, such as learning from each other and communicating with the teacher. Interestingly, the data indicate that students used alternate social media such as WhatsApp to communicate with their group mates regarding the collaborative writing activity. Overall, the results obtained here confirm that the Google Docs can be used to enhance collaborative learning among non-native English-speaking students.

This thesis addresses the use of computers in the preparation, creation and evaluation of tests and questionnaires. Acquainted with different ways of using computer technology in completing questionnaires or forms of test and evaluation. The whole issue is assessed with regard to the application in education. The output is a comparison of different methods.

Almeida, Ana Paula Silva de. A444 Diário no Google Docs: possibilidades de reflexão sobre a prática de estágio curricular/Ana Paula Silva de Almeida.- Jequié, UESB, 2013. 218 f: il.; 30cm. (Anexos) Dissertação (Programa de pós-graduação Educação Científica e Formação de Professores )-Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, 2013. Orientador: Prof. Dr. Claudinei de Camargo Sant’Ana. 1. Estágio supervisionado – Licenciatura em Matemática 2. Diário no Google Docs e prática pedagógica – Estágio supervisionado do curso de Licenciatura e Matemática 3. Tecnologia de Informação e Comunicação – Diário de campo no Google Docs e o estágio supervisionado do curso de Licenciatura e Matemática I. Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia II. Título. CDD – 570.07 / Submitted by Cintia Schneider null (cintia.schneider@posgrad.ufsc.br) on 2016-05-11T19:23:26Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ANA PAULA ALMEIDA.pdf: 2860072 bytes, checksum: d0a62da75bdfbd7a1aa9d0121ee0a802 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-11T19:23:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANA PAULA ALMEIDA.pdf: 2860072 bytes, checksum: d0a62da75bdfbd7a1aa9d0121ee0a802 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Esta pesquisa foi realizada na disciplina de Estágio Supervisionado II na turma do 7º semestre do curso de Licenciatura em Matemática na Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), campus de Vitória da Conquista, tendo como participantes da pesquisa dois orientadores de estágio (o pesquisador e o professor titular da disciplina), dez estagiários e oito regentes. Trata-se de um estudo com características da pesquisa-ação, que tomou como base o ciclo da investigação-ação, de forma sistemática e fundamentada. O objetivo principal da pesquisa foi investigar se a inserção de um diário de campo, construído no Google Docs, pode proporcionar ao estagiário discussões reflexivas sobre a sua prática pedagógica durante o período de estágio, favorecendo uma maior interação com o orientador. Como instrumentos para coleta de dados, utilizamos o diário, a observação de aulas, memoriais, relatórios, gravações de aulas e de reuniões, questionários e entrevistas. A base teórica da pesquisa foi a teoria sociointeracionista de Vygotsky e estudos sobre Diários, Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação e Estágio Supervisionado na Formação Inicial. Observamos que a inserção do diário como ambiente de discussão, reflexão e interação contribui positivamente e produtivamente para análise e intervenção na ação pedagógica do estagiário, estimulando-o a uma participação mais ativa, criativa e a intensificar o diálogo e a construção coletiva do conhecimento.

Educators must meet the demand to produce a workforce better educated with using 21st-century technology tools. The purpose of this case study was to explore the usefulness of Google Docs as one of those tools by examining 2 main questions. Those questions were how high school students perceive Google Docs could benefit them and how career and technical (CTE) teachers use it to support collaborative learning as a strong part of the learning process. The conceptual framework used included Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, which focuses on collaborative learning. Participants were 2 teachers and 8 students from 2 urban school districts in the Eastern part of the United States. Data sources were interviews with teachers and student focus group discussions. Data were coded using open coding, and themes and patterns were identified. Results indicated that Google Docs supports student learning by increasing opportunities for collaboration and helping students be more efficient while also preparing them for careers. Students indicated that they saw Google Docs as a learning tool and that they were more engaged while working collaboratively with their peers via the platform. Findings may help CTE teachers and students learn more about how to use web-based technologies to learn via collaboration and may assist students in becoming more successful in their CTE courses and careers.

This study investigates the effectiveness of Google Docs (GD) as a tool when students peer-review writing tasks. It also explorers different strategies for the teacher to use to fully utilize GD for peer-reviewing. Therefore, the research will specify in what ways can GD facilitate better student peer review for writing, both individually and collaboratively and what strategies can teachers employ to fully utilize GD for effective and timely student feedback within writing tasks. By collecting secondary empirical studies, we explore and provide an overview of the possible outcomes when using GD as a digital tool for peer-reviewing and the best strategies for teachers to use. Overall, the empirical researchers all agree that using GD improved students' implication through writing when having these peer-reviewing tasks. The researchers also pointed out that if the students are not trained and instructed the students will not develop a deeper understanding of structure and content when revising, which will lead to students not developing their critical thinking and writing ability when peer-reviewing. Therefore, it is vital for our future position as teachers to acknowledge the importance of using the right teacher strategies for the students to develop their knowledge and understanding of peer-reviewing.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-03-02T22:26:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoCesarLeandro_DISSERT.pdf: 2837747 bytes, checksum: 4424a133858de71d987d66fcde92addf (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-03T22:12:40Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoCesarLeandro_DISSERT.pdf: 2837747 bytes, checksum: 4424a133858de71d987d66fcde92addf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-03T22:12:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DiegoCesarLeandro_DISSERT.pdf: 2837747 bytes, checksum: 4424a133858de71d987d66fcde92addf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-04 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / O Google Docs (GD) ? um editor online de textos por meio do qual m?ltiplos autores podem trabalhar s?ncrona ou assincronamente em um mesmo documento, o que pode auxiliar no desenvolvimento da habilidade de escrita em ingl?s (WEISSHEIMER; SOARES, 2012). Ao escrever colaborativamente, os aprendizes t?m mais oportunidades para perceber as lacunas na sua produ??o escrita, visto que s?o expostos a mais insumo lingu?stico por parte dos colegas coautores (WEISSHEIMER; BERGSLEITHNER; LEANDRO, 2012), e priorizam o processo de (re)constru??o textual, em detrimento da preocupa??o com o produto final (i.e., o texto pronto) (LEANDRO; WEISSHEIMER; COOPER, 2013). Ademais, no processo de aprendizagem de uma segunda l?ngua (L2), a produ??o de linguagem propicia a consolida??o de conhecimentos existentes e a cria??o de novos conhecimentos (SWAIN, 1985; 1993). Levando isto em considera??o, o presente estudo, de natureza quasi-experimental (NUNAN, 1992) e abordagem mista (D?RNYEI, 2007), objetiva investigar o impacto da escrita colaborativa mediada pela ferramenta GD no desenvolvimento da habilidade de escrita em L?ngua Inglesa (LI) e na percep??o de erros sint?ticos ou noticing (SCHMIDT, 1990). Trinta e quatro licenciandos em Letras/Ingl?s integraram o estudo, sendo 25 no grupo experimental e nove no grupo controle. Ambos os grupos passaram por um pr?-teste e por um p?s-teste para que pud?ssemos medir o noticing de estruturas sint?ticas. Os participantes do grupo experimental foram expostos a uma experi?ncia de aprendizagem h?brida, a qual consistiu em aulas presenciais de leitura e produ??o escrita em LI e na escrita colaborativa de tr?s narrativas completas contadas em 100 palavras, denominadas flash fiction (FF), fora de sala de aula, online por meio do GD, durante 11 semanas. O grupo controle teve igualmente aulas presenciais de leitura e produ??o escrita em LI, por?m n?o praticou nenhum tipo de escrita colaborativa. Analisamos a primeira e a ?ltima narrativa produzida pelos participantes do grupo experimental a fim de medir a acur?cia gramatical, operacionalizada como a quantidade de erros gramaticais a cada 100 palavras (SOUSA, 2014) e a densidade lexical, operacionalizada como a rela??o entre o n?mero de palavras produzidas com propriedades lexicais e o n?mero de palavras produzidas com propriedades gramaticais (WEISSHEIMER, 2007; MEHNERT, 1998). Adicionalmente, os participantes do grupo experimental responderam a um question?rio online sobre a experi?ncia h?brida a qual foram expostos. Os resultados quantitativos mostram que os participantes passaram a produzir textos com mais densidade lexical ap?s 11 semanas de interven??o pedag?gica. J? os resultados quantitativos do noticing e da acur?cia gramatical foram contr?rios ao esperado, por?m nos fornecem insights sobre o modelo de teste, no caso do noticing, e sobre a atitude ? positiva ? dos participantes em rela??o ? escrita colaborativa de FF. Os resultados qualitativos evidenciam a utilidade da escrita colaborativa mediada por tecnologia no processo de aprendizagem de L2. / Google Docs (GD) is an online word processor with which multiple authors can work on the same document, in a synchronous or asynchronous manner, which can help develop the ability of writing in English (WEISSHEIMER; SOARES, 2012). As they write collaboratively, learners find more opportunities to notice the gaps in their written production, since they are exposed to more input from the fellow co-authors (WEISSHEIMER; BERGSLEITHNER; LEANDRO, 2012) and prioritize the process of text (re)construction instead of the concern with the final product, i.e., the final version of the text (LEANDRO; WEISSHEIMER; COOPER, 2013). Moreover, when it comes to second language (L2) learning, producing language enables the consolidation of existing knowledge as well as the internalization of new knowledge (SWAIN, 1985; 1993). Taking this into consideration, this mixed-method (D?RNYEI, 2007) quasi-experimental (NUNAN, 1999) study aims at investigating the impact of collaborative writing through GD on the development of the writing skill in English and on the noticing of syntactic structures (SCHMIDT, 1990). Thirtyfour university students of English integrated the cohort of the study: twenty-five were assigned to the experimental group and nine were assigned to the control group. All learners went through a pre-test and a post-test so that we could measure their noticing of syntactic structures. Learners in the experimental group were exposed to a blended learning experience, in which they took reading and writing classes at the university and collaboratively wrote three pieces of flash fiction (a complete story told in a hundred words), outside the classroom, online through GD, during eleven weeks. Learners in the control group took reading and writing classes at the university but did not practice collaborative writing. The first and last stories produced by the learners in the experimental group were analysed in terms of grammatical accuracy, operationalized as the number of grammar errors per hundred words (SOUSA, 2014), and lexical density, which refers to the relationship between the number of words produced with lexical properties and the number of words produced with grammatical properties (WEISSHEIMER, 2007; MEHNERT, 1998). Additionally, learners in the experimental group answered an online questionnaire on the blended learning experience they were exposed to. The quantitative results showed that the collaborative task led to the production of more lexically dense texts over the 11 weeks. The noticing and grammatical accuracy results were different from what we expected; however, they provide us with insights on measurement issues, in the case of noticing, and on the participants? positive attitude towards collaborative writing with flash fiction. The qualitative results also shed light on the usefulness of computer-mediated collaborative writing in L2 learning.

As part of the increasing use of technology in society, one particular school in Sweden follows the same path. The chosen school for this study has integrated digital tools such as laptops and a web service called Google Classroom. Within the service, there is an additional document creator called Google Docs which has several functions such as, storage, document creation, editing and commenting on texts and allowing instructors and peers to view the process in real-time (Slavkov, 2015; Wiles, 2015). The integration of Google Docs is of interest in this paper and the aim is to investigate its advantages for the feedback process and students’ collaborative work, and the possible disadvantages. The methodology in this study is a qualitative semi-structured interview with two upper secondary teachers in one school in Sweden. Both participants are experienced in using digital tools in their EFL teaching. Therefore, they help create further understanding and the pedagogical values of Google Docs. On the one hand, earlier studies promote Google Docs as an effective tool when it comes to managing and monitoring students’ work (Chu & Kennedy, 2010; Kessler et al. 2012), and the potential to improve student collaboration (Seyyedrezaie et al, 2016; Ishtaiwa & Aburezeq, 2015). Results show both teachers express that Google Docs is flexible and easy to use and share similar views regarding the facilitation of the writing process and feedback process. Likewise, in terms of students’ collaborative work. On the other hand, both teachers express similar concerns regarding the feedback process. The students would often rather know the final grade for their assignment rather than follow up on the formative feedback. Also, there are concerns that during collaborative work the students with higher L2 proficiency tend to have more workload than the others and end up teaching the lower proficiency level students’ important information that they should have listened to. The results imply that teachers need further guidance on teaching methodology, strategies for formative assessment follow up and organization of groups within classes when working with Google Docs.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:23:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luis Roberto Guerreiro Lopes.pdf: 1337147 bytes, checksum: 5ee9bb7fd95021d00b0d1f8a52ab7d04 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-20 / With the increasing development of communication technology, there are countless resources available today to build an environment for collaborative learning. And in construction process, we can avail ourselves of the opportunities offered by Web 2.0, where the keyword is interaction. Every day appears, in the virtual world, through the advent of the Internet, tools with enormous potential, especially in terms of interaction and social construction of knowledge. The tool Google Docs specifically allows interaction and exchange of ideas, exchange information possible, being authors, to interfere and contribute to the construction of a reality / knowledge that makes us subjects of our own existence. The biggest advantage in using this tool is that it is free and allows the knowledge produced and worked in this course is open to the whole community involved in the tool. Through this research we analyze the various features of Google Docs in the teaching-learning as enabler of collaborative actions in the virtual world of interactivity, for a sample of students in higher education in the context of formal teaching and learning. On the use of Google docs are as perceptions of students identified from the responses to a questionnaire constructed for this purpose. The perceptions of students stands out considering the fact that Google docs help improving the performance results of matter related to the course, working as a learning strategy and as a support resource, always available anytime and anywhere where the student has Internet access / Com a crescente evolução das tecnologias da comunicação, inúmeros são os recursos hoje disponíveis para a construção de um ambiente para a aprendizagem colaborativa. E, nesse processo de construção, podemos nos valer das possibilidades oferecidas pela Web 2.0, onde a palavra chave é interação. Todos os dias surgem, no mundo virtual, através do advento da Internet, ferramentas com potencialidades imensas, especialmente em termos de interação e construção coletiva de conhecimentos. A ferramenta Google Docs, especificamente, permite a interação e o intercâmbio de idéias, possibilitando trocar informações, sermos autores, interferir e contribuir para a construção de uma realidade/conhecimento que nos torne sujeitos de nossa própria existência. A maior vantagem na utilização desta ferramenta é que ela é gratuita e permite que o conhecimento trabalhado e produzido neste curso seja aberto a toda a comunidade envolvida na ferramenta. Por meio desta pesquisa analisamos as várias funções do Google docs em processos de ensino‐aprendizagem como possibilitador de ações colaborativas no universo da interatividade virtual, por uma amostra de alunos do ensino superior, no contexto formal de ensino e aprendizagem. Sobre a utilização da ferramenta Google docs salientam-se as percepções dos alunos identificadas a partir das respostas dadas a um questionário construído para o efeito. Das percepções dos alunos destaca-se o fato de considerarem que o Google docs ajuda a melhorar os resultados de desempenho da matéria relacionada ao curso, funcionando como uma estratégia de aprendizagem e como um recurso de apoio, sempre disponível a qualquer hora e em qualquer local onde o aluno tenha acesso a Internet

This work contains students' communication analysis, the design of new information system for students and its implementation. New system integrates the social network Facebook, the Google Docs and the Google Calendar. The result of this master's thesis is working system written in Java language. The system is based on the students' communication analysis and the requirements of the Students' Union.