Google Docs

Google Docs

Overview

Have you ever had to work on a Word document with a group of people? Or have you forgotten your laptop or thumbdrive with the document you need right now? Well those days are gone! Using any number of FREE online tools, you can create word processing, documents, and presentations with just your browser. Most of the tool available also allow you to collaborate with others.

If you haven't noticed, this workshop has been a bit Google-heavy. Keeping with that theme, we are going to explore Google Docs. (If you do a search - yes in Google - for online word processors, you can see some of the others).

Here are basic benefits to use Google Docs:

• Ability to access files anywhere with an Internet connection
• Collaborate with one other or a 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

Limitations of Google Docs

• Have to be connected
• Can't format as precisely as with Office

Class Room Uses

Embed Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations

Regardless of whether or not you created it in Docs, you can embed any of these file types directly into your Site.

Here is what a PowerPoint/Presentation looks like:

Here is what a Document looks like: