Sunday, March 14, 2010

Great Info on Using Google Docs in Schools

Google Docs in Plain English
This is a quick intro – basic, but a good first step in using Google Docs. The idea of eliminating flash drives would certainly help to eliminate the need to infect computers with viruses from home and the chance to collaborate with students and other teachers is amazing.
http://dotsub.com/view/17eaa9f0-787b-4fd8-b1c7-f8d61db2e310



New to Google Docs?
This website is from Google Docs and contains help topics covering a wide arrange of topics from: Getting Started, Editing, Uploading, Collaborating, Fixing a problem, and Docs for Teachers and Students.
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15114


Using Google Docs in a class to revise and write

http://www.google.com/educators/weeklyreader.html - Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs


Be sure to look at the “Getting Started” – Step 1. It was how I figured out that we could sign up for Google Docs using a current email address. The PDF files on this page are a teacher’s survival tool to getting started in Google Docs.


Using Google Docs in the Classroom: As Easy at ABC...

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcdn7mjg_72nh25vq#Create_an_account


Step 1: Set up a Google account
To set up an account, go to docs.google.com. Instructions for setting it up are on the site. Students can create a Google Account with their existing email address. For a Google Account, they just enter their present email address and select a password. It simply lets them take advantage of all the free Google services.

1. Set up Google Account for your students. [If you prefer, you can also set up a Gmail account at gmail.com. That also provides access to Docs.]

2. Begin using Google Docs by simply typing “Docs” into your web browser or go to docs.google.com.

3. Sign into Google Docs with your Gmail login name or Google Account username and password.
This website is another crib sheet on Google Docs for schools. It includes more technical info on using Google Apps which is a for fee service that allows you to upload emails easier ($50/user). It is written like Cornell notes that gives things to think about on the right side as it list the basic info on the left.
As I was searching info on Google Docs from the 2010 NCTIES Wiki, I found the following link that opened my eyes and gave me step-by-step handouts on how to use the revision features in Google Docs. Some of the info is from the beta version and has since been updated, but it's the one of the better overall explanations to how to use Google Docs to collaborate.

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