Teacher Productivity Tools

1. What did you learn through your individual efforts?
- Through my individual efforts, I learned about how great of a tool Excel is.  It can be used for classroom budgeting, your own personal attendance records, and grading.  Especially for grading and budgeting, Excel is an application that is made to do the math for you.  It is definitely something that I am going to be taking full advantage of in the future to help assist me in my teaching.  In addition to Excel, I learned about an app called Wunderlist.  It is an online to-do list that you can share to others.  In addition to this, you can attach documents, and other information that can be shared to anyone you want.  This would be a great tool for teachers to use to further connect with parents as well as keeping students on track with their work.

2.  What did you learn from others?  
- From others, I learned about how great of a tool Google Docs is.  Google Docs again is a great app that can be used for sharing documents to the parents and students in your class.  You could also share your documents to other teachers.  Google Docs is a great tool because it is safer than just saving things on your desktop.  Computers are unpredictable because they can break or sometimes completely wipe their memory.  Google Docs, however, is through your own personal account so all of your information is highly unlikely to somehow be erased.  It is definitely a very secure and useful app that would be really great for a teacher.