Google Docs

Google Docs



Google Docs is an application on the Internet that allows users to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. A feature of Goggle Docs is that it allows for online collaboration. The user can invite collaborators who can access the documents and edit the document. Other individuals can access the site and view the documents. These individuals cannot edit the document. Goggle Docs also allows for real time collaboration through a chat room. Google Docs can be accessed from a computer at any time from anywhere there is a internet connection Google Docs can upload documents and it can safely store these documents. A feature that I found unique about Google Docs is that Google Doc can translate an entire document into another language.

Google Docs can be a time saving tool. Instead of sending multiple copies of an e-mail a teacher, editor, or business person can create a document on Google Docs and invite participants to view the documents. Meetings can be arranged to work on the document if it is needed.

Overall, Google Docs is an ideal learning and teaching tool. All the essential elements that are needed to create and manage learning and teaching materials are located within Google Docs. Teachers and principals like Google Docs because it allows for more interactive lessons and student participation. Students can act as peer editors. College student and M.B.A. candidate,Jorge Zepervanche uses Google Docs as a study and organizational tool for his study group. A big advantage of Google Docs is that it saves time and reduces the use of paperwork because all of the tools, except perhaps the book, are in front of the student and teacher. The method of learning that Google Docs is incorporating is the connectivist school of learning. Students are using the latest updated applications that Google Docs has to offer on the site.




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http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html