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?
- Click on doc and add your thoughts - Just Add Google Mass Edit
- How to create, share and publish a Google Doc (Google Apps version)
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?
- Presentations (Office = PowerPoint)
- Spreadsheets (Office = Excel)
- Forms
- How to create / Edit / View
- 70 Interesting Ways to Use Forms
- Complete Form - Potential Uses of Google Tools (embedded version) alternate = Live Form (email out or link)
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?
- Click on doc and add your thoughts - Just Add Google Mass Edit
- How to create, share and publish a Google Doc (Google Apps version)
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?
- Presentations (Office = PowerPoint)
- Spreadsheets (Office = Excel)
- Forms
- How to create / Edit / View
- 70 Interesting Ways to Use Forms
- Complete Form - Potential Uses of Google Tools (embedded version) alternate = Live Form (email out or link)