Web Tools

The experience with Google groups was somewhat difficult in the beginning. I believe that the reason it was rather hard for me to grasp is I am not as familiar with google like I am with yahoo groups. However, I believe that it will be an extremely useful tool in the classroom setting, especially in higher leves of education such as in an eighth grade classroom. Both middle school and high school settings would be a wonderful educational environment to utilize Google groups for class projects and assignments. The only concern that I have is that almost every web-site based tool has an area to post discussions. If a student new to the world of technology uses the area to post the web-sites they have found and chooses to get rid of the discussion area of the group it may delete all of their hard work if he or she is not familiar with using this web based tools.