Google Docs is quite intuitive and a useful tool to use for collaborating on documents, presentations and reports. However, it does not handle big files well as I created a Presentation with photos from my holiday, and this kept making Internet Explorer crash all the time an attempt was made to open Google Docs. Firefox worked better, so I told my "collaborator" to open the presentation in Firefox as it kept crashing on her PC also.
I do, however like it as a free tool to share information and work on things like subject guides, reports, etc. Now that I have had training in Sharepoint, though, I prefer this option for collaborating with colleagues as you can "check out" a document, edit and "check in". Also in Sharepoint you can have dicussions, create a wiki and blog, share calendars and arrange meetings. It is a more blended approach to managing workflow and projects.
For students, Google Docs would be extremely useful. So many students do group work nowadays, that sharing their presentations and assignment this way is less confusing than 5 different versions of the same report going around. However, are students aware of Google Docs? If not, how can they be made aware of this option?
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I also think google docs would be great for students- there is so much group work now. Google docs was on 23Things before we started using SP and SP does have that handy feature where you can view versions.
ReplyDeleteI like that Google docs has not just docs but presentations and spreadheets and it's a freee resource that we can tell students about- they just need an gmail account.
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how do we tell students?
ReplyDeletesomething for the blog? for IL classes? something we tell staff about so that they can encourage students to use for group work?