GoogleDocs

 Google Documents, Spreadsheets, & Presentations **__What are [|Google Docs]?__** Watch this short video, "Google Docs in Plain English", for a quick and amusing explanation: media type="youtube" key="muVUA-sKcc4" height="234" width="384" **Google Docs for Educators** media type="youtube" key="TYPjJK6LZdM" height="234" width="384" **Google Documents** **Google Presentations** **Google Spreadsheets** **__Reasons for use__** **__Ease of use__** **__Resources__** **LiveBinders - click to open!**
 * allows you to store, share, collaborate and publish your documents onto the web.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">allows you to store, share, collaborate and publish your slide shows onto the web.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">allows you to store, share, collaborate and publish your spreadsheets onto the web.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Easily share and edit documents, spreadsheets & presentations online.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Collaborative environment that can be accessed from any computer with internet access.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Upload documents, spreadsheets, and powerpoint presentations to edit online.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Spreadsheets give the ability to create forms that can be used as surveys, questionnaires or quizzes.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Very easy with or without a Google Account.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Editing features are very similar to Microsoft Word.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">File folder organizational structure available within Google Docs.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[|Google Docs Help Center]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[|Google Tutor]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[|Google Docs for Educators]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[|Google for Educators]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> [|Using Google Forms as a Quizzing Tool -] YouTube Video
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Google Tools Tutorials from FreeTech4Teachers.com
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Introducing GDocs to the Class] - great explanation and templates
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Google Tools] in the classroom - tricks, how to set up accounts, iGoogle, Blogger, Docs, Maps, Notebook, Reader, etc. available from Tammy.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Making Online Quizzes] with GoogleDocs - part 1 (scroll to bottom for pt2-3)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|100 Google Tricks] - that will save you time in school
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Google Search tools] - fabulous glogster showing the variety of uses for Google
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Using Google Docs] - student examples of how they use GDocs

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