We use them as the coordinating tools for our Center, in an attempt to provide one shared location for calendars and scheduling, budget and project spreadsheets, draft documents for comments (I don't recommend using the wiki component because it changes doc files into html files that don't translate back so well), and a display interface for discussing things in meetings and for visitors. ======================================================= Ronald E. Rice Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media President of the International Communication Association 2006-2007 Dept. of Communication, 4840 Ellison Hall University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020 Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102 rrice@comm.ucsb.edu http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/rice_flash.htm http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Balch" <charlie@balch.org> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:18 PM Subject: [Air-L] Google Docs
For those of you who are not aware, Google Docs are a free service from Google that allows multiple authors to collaborate synchronously or asynchronously. There a word processor, a spreadsheet, and presentation package. While not as full featured as MS Office both the feature more meet most needs.
I've been fascinated with Google Docs and am looking for more ways to use them more in the classroom. So far I have students working tip sheets together and a group exercise where students enter in the names of various pizza parlors then vote on them by placing their name in the same row.
How are others using Google Docs.
Thanks, Charles Balch Ph.D. Professor of CIS Arizona Western College Yuma, AZ
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