The reading this week in Going Google has made me more curious about the ability of google to support communication with families. I have been using google gmail, calendar and docs for myself and with colleagues for the last two years, but I am just now realizing that theses tools have more features and options.  I also read about new features; templates and sites. I am very interested in trying out  the google site to create a website for my classroom.  However, in the reading I did learn that there may be other ways to keep families up to date( calendar, google docs, etc) The one question I have is how much education will it take to ensure families understand how to access these tools, etc in order to receive the information. It made me wonder about creating some type of questionnaire or information gathering tool at the beginning of the school year to assess what families are already using and what their preference and comfort levels are with technology.