Google Docs

Benefits

Limitations

    • Access files anywhere with an Internet connection
    • Collaborate with one other or 100 others on a document
    • Save your files to your hard drive as Microsoft, Open Office, or PDF (not stuck with proprietary file type, i.e. Microsoft)
    • Embed and/or share finished files with others
    • Must be connected to the internet
    • Can't format as precisely as with Office

What Can Be Saved In Docs?

    • File Repository / Create Collections / Upload

Who Can View & Who Can Edit?

How can students share their docs with you?

    • Organization is key! Chaos is the alternative.
    • Use a naming formula (period_LastName_topic = 3-McDowell-Migrations)
    • Create a collection/folder for each specific essay and/or period
    • You can also have students create a folder with their name and share it with you. You can create another collection/folder to hold each period's folders. Students then drop their assignments into the that folder which automatically shares it with you.

Class Examples

    • AP World History Essays (Documents)

What Types Of Documents Can Be Created In Docs?

Benefits

Limitations

    • Access files anywhere with an Internet connection
    • Collaborate with one other or 100 others on a document
    • Save your files to your hard drive as Microsoft, Open Office, or PDF (not stuck with proprietary file type, i.e. Microsoft)
    • Embed and/or share finished files with others
    • Must be connected to the internet
    • Can't format as precisely as with Office

What Can Be Saved In Docs?

    • File Repository / Create Collections / Upload

Who Can View & Who Can Edit?

How can students share their docs with you?

    • Organization is key! Chaos is the alternative.
    • Use a naming formula (period_LastName_topic = 3-McDowell-Migrations)
    • Create a collection/folder for each specific essay and/or period
    • You can also have students create a folder with their name and share it with you. You can create another collection/folder to hold each period's folders. Students then drop their assignments into the that folder which automatically shares it with you.

Class Examples

    • AP World History Essays (Documents)

What Types Of Documents Can Be Created In Docs?