Google is a company that spends a significant amount of time researching the needs of consumers, and providing easy to use, stable web based applications to meet these requirements. Google Docs is no exception to this...
Docs is an amazing tool, that has so much untapped potential. Spreadsheets, forms, and documents are easy to share and discuss, and the application integrates with many other Google technologies, making many simple tasks streamlined. Some examples:
Assessments for students I can create in Google Spreadsheets, and port it to an online Form. The online form is then accessed by the students and the assessment completed. The final page of the form is used to survey the students on the content of the unit, or the assessment specifically (depending on what is appropriate). Check this out as an example: Google Form for Assessment
I access Google Search and conduct a search. I can nominate a number of documents found during that search and save them to my Google Docs account. Saving these files and making them shared means students can access the documents, without me having to download and re-upload them to a server (such as MyPLS).
There are many applications where this would be useful, and I propose that the technology will only improve over time.
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