I really like this activity. I have had students work in pairs or groups to create a PowerPoints on a project. Only one person can be working on the topic at a time and the other students usually end up sitting back and goofing off. Google PowerPoint would allow all students to work simultaneously. This also increases accountability. If one student doesn't get their work done, it doesn't effect the work of other kids.
Instead of just using this for group work, this program could be used with the whole class to jigsaw a topic like WW2 on the home front or the Civil War. Like the Abraham Lincoln PowerPoint done in class, each student could be given a topic. This beats PowerPoint because I would not have 30 individual files to open or put together. I will have to figure out the logistics of getting all my students to use this without insisting they all have a GMail account, perhaps a generic user name. I know some of my students use their parents email addresses, and I know there would be some small backlash to having them all sign up with GMail.
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