Google Docs

Here's another breakthrough by the giant company Google. It is amazing how they've grown over the years. Now, who needs to worry about online collaboration in real time? You can do it through google docs. With the use of this system, you can safely store and organize your work plus control who can collaborate and who can see your document. Isn't that great? I believe that teachers can benefit from this if they discover how to use it in their planning and collaboration.

Here's a list of what you can do with google docs;

Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online

Create basic documents from scratch. You can easily do all the basics, including making bulleted lists, sorting by columns, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts and more. And it's free.

Upload your existing files.

Google Docs accepts most popular file formats, including DOC, XLS, ODT, ODS, RTF, CSV, PPT, etc. So go ahead and upload your existing files.

Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze.

Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, indent, change font or number format, change cell background color and so on.


Here's an interesting blog about google docs. Satish presented some issues about the use of this new feature from google.

http://www.satishblog.com/2007/06/google-docs-some-issues.html

Should you wish to start using this, you may click this link for your tour and start collaborating with your colleagues......

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html

Try the Google Docs demo video on how it works....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA