Google Docs

Submitted by Tom Wright on March 28, 2007 - 14:19.

I've just started using Google Docs for a collaborative project, and I love it. The students seem pretty happy with it, as well. (They especially like the ability to revert to an earlier version.)

I know that a few other people on here are using it, too. How are you using it? What features do you find unusually helpful (or limiting)?

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Special Education and More

Submitted by mrmoses.org on March 28, 2007 - 15:52.

I'm using it with several of my special education students so I can monitor their progress and give a hand along the way:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df49bqws_112fpxwdd

I'm using it to help students who do not have Microsoft Word, but need to open or create a .doc file:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trn4LHIC-eU

As an administrator I'm using it to help keep track of my supervise-es progress (not going to share that one) and my supervisors have access, and can add, to what I'm doing:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df49bqws_81g92b2s

So many applications.

Educational Uses of GoogleDocs

Submitted by sehrmann on April 1, 2007 - 18:26.

We've been using GoogleDocs for some time, and have begun offering online workshops on its educational uses. For example, we offer a free online web series called "FridayLive!" (Limit 100 participants each Friday; register in advance). Here's a web page of resources we created about GoogleDocs:
http://www.tltgroup.org/OLI/20070309GoogleDocsEdUsesResources.htm

This page is loaded with resources, including an archive of the live session, a 5-minute recording of some key issues, and some useful URLs.

If you'd like to learn about the FridayLive! series (last Friday was about dealing with frequently made objections to 'assessment' and this coming Friday will be about learning space issues), go to:
http://www.tltgroup.org/Registration/Registration/Fridaylive.htm

Scroll down and you can see the list of upcoming sessions. They're wildly interactive: a chat room exploding with comments, and interaction on screen as well. We really have a good time exploring issues like this. I hope you can join us.

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Stephen C. Ehrmann, Ph.D.
Director of the Flashlight Program for the Study and Improvement of Educational Uses of Technology
Vice President, The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group
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