It is not uncommon to hear from students that a document was saved at home and cannot be edited at school because it wasn't saved on some sort of storage device or emailed; or that they have WordPerfect at home and not Word so they can't open the document.
Fortunately there is an easy way around issues like these... Online Productivity like Google Docs or Zoho.
Of course there are many other reasons why, say, Google Docs is a smart choice for students that use multiple computers.
As we all have a Google Account we will use Google Docs for our productivity Thing. Feel free to join Zoho (free, of course) and test that one too. I use both because they each have features I like for different things.
- Watch the Google Docs Slideshow Tour (click the play buttons)... http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html
- Google Docs in Plain English... http://sites.google.com/site/edtoolstrade/introduction-to-google-docs
- Google Docs in Education - Check the following site that explains (and shows videos) of how Google Docs could be used in the education setting...http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html
22)
a) Log in to your Google account and go try out Google Docs. Create, save, and maybe even share with someone else doing 23 Things and see how the collaboration aspects work.
b) What do you think of Google Docs? Add a comment to your blog as to how you might use Google Docs at school.
23) Tell us what you thought about this whole 23 Things PD. Put a comment on your blog as to the most valuable part of this PD and also the most frustrating / difficult part of this PD.
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