Collaborative work: Google docs

Google docs (http://docs.google.com) offers, through a google or gmail account, access to a powerful suite of office applications that can be used to collaborate with others via the web. You can create text documents (in word, pdf, rtf), presentations (ppt) and spreadsheets (xls)

How to get started

1. Once you have your gmail account, login into google and go to http://docs.google.com

2. You will see the option of creating a new document or uploading one.

3. I will suggest that you try uploading a word document first and see how it does it.

4. Edit and make changes to the document, try sharing it with a colleague and once you have played with that, save it as PDF , export or publish it.

5. This will be a good way for you to see the features of the system before you start creating your own documents from scratch

6. Do the same uploading a spreadsheet and a powerpoint presentation

7. More tutorials and explanations can be found at http://edtec101.wordpress.com

How do others get to collaborate?

1. You click on the SHARE tab on rop of the document and it is going to ask you to enter the email of those that you want to invite and a brief message.

2. When they get the message, they have to click on the link provided and access the document with the same email account where they received the message.