While Google Documents lacks the rich features available in a traditional Office software, they more than make up for it in facilitating collaboration on document creation. Users share their text docs, spreadsheets, and presentations online in an effort to gain broader input on the content. Does this sound familiar, all of the tools so far are all about online sharing an feedback and Google Docs is no different.
Four formats within Google Docs. Three you are probably familiar with; Text, Presentations, and Spreadsheets. The last one is Google Forms, this is a great survey tool that makes a quick parent or class survey a breeze.
1. Text Document how-to is here and doc used in how-to published here:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddcbwk9w_1fxqnb7gn
2. The Presentation document how-to he here and the doc used in the how-t0 is published here:
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddcbwk9w_3c7rwfgg8
3. The Spreadsheet document how-to is here and the docs used in the how-to are published here:
Elementary:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tnJwWB-Cxhto700VX9k--mA&output=html
Secondary Science:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t4gsLO217IiPTItGNgaqCjg&output=html
4. Lastly, the Goog forms survey is here.
The survey it produces is here
Yes, No.5 here is a little longer as you'll have to create one of each of the above 4 to get your head around Google Docs. Post the links to these in your blog and answer the questions below here:
-Which of the formats (Text, Presentation, or Spreadsheets) seems the most natural fit in your class?
-Can you think of any surveys that you give that might be easy to facilitate in Google Forms?
