Today we each used Google Docs to create a slide in a presentation for a slideshow on Lincoln's death. It was a very quick and easy jigsaw activity where each of us researched a person of interest in the assassination and added our portion to the class file. I found that I learned much more about the Lincoln assassination than I knew previously, but it required very little effort on my part.
As far as using this in my class, it could be an interesting way to jigsaw a topic for student research. For instance, we are studying cells and I could group my students into two groups, a plant cell group and an animal cell group. I could then assign each student in the group a cell organelle and it would be their responsibility to find the function of the organelle and an image of the organelle and add it to their group presentation to create a cell overview. The slide show could then be shared with the class so all of the students can see all of the organelles and the accompanying images.
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