Web 2.0 Adventure

I have heard of Google Docs from my children for some time, so I really enjoyed some time to explore it on my own.  I love the collaborative nature of Google Docs, although CCSD’s new SharePoint will afford us many of these same benefits.  I brought in one of my PowerPoints that I created for training next week on OAS Reports, and it transitioned to Google Docs very well.  And I think that the classroom teacher could incorporate the collaboration feature into so many academic lesson plans, not unlike having students add to a wiki, that it just blows my mind.  Google Docs is definitely cool!

If you have the Internet, you have your docs! 

I think that our school system’s move to SharePoint will allow us to share and work collaboratively in a similar fashion.  And I did find myself frustrated by some of the limitations of the documents; I could not download my pictures because they were “too big” for the restrictions in place with the service.  Which, of course, is smart for them.  And I wanted to use pretty basic Word features, like text wrap, and could not make that work in my word processing document.  But these were minor inconveniences, as compared to the great features in the program.

I would really use the feature for forms; an easy way and free way to gather a group’s opinions in a convenient way.  All in all, a very cool session

These Google people just continue to amaze and impress!