Google offers online file creating, saving, and sharing, in the form of Google Documents. If you already have a Google Account you can use your same login, otherwise you can create a Google Account for access. Visit docs.google.com.
Google Documents allows you to create and save online new word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, etc. Google Documents also lets you upload ones that you have already created on another computer. These documents can then be saved in your Google Account and you can access them anywhere that you have internet access. Also, you can change the privacy options on the files so that you can control who can view them.
Google Documents have a wide variety of uses from personal use and group projects to collecting wedding address.
I had the chance to teach a few of the students in my Digital Civilizations class about Google Documents last week, and I found that as I taught them about it I continued to learn more about the options available.
Google Documents allow us easier access to our files no matter where we are. In today’s world we continually have the need to be able to share what we are working on and to access it from another computer. Google Documents makes it so that you don’t have to email files to yourself or always have a flash drive on you, because you can have files saved online. In the past it was sufficient to just have your ideas committed to memory or possibly written down so that a few other people could see them, but today it is important to be able to have our files and documents travel with us, since we live in a world that it digitally connected.
Katherine, I just learned something cool about Google Docs the other day. I found that you can publish a document with its own url, but still have the freedom to go back and edit if you like. I published an essay I wrote for American Literature and then posted the link on my blog. Check it out.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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