Collaboration+with+Google+Docs

**Goals:**
1. To provide knowledge of technology tools you can use to collaborate with teachers. 2. To provide knowledge of technology tools to support instruction.

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= Part 1: Collaborating on a Google Doc =

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In addition to Forms, Google offers collaborative documents, presentations and spreadsheets applications. Let's look at our example document: @http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaWdT9r4T7-nZHA3c2ozdF8xMjlud25oeGdq&hl=en This document is public for today's purposes; however, all Google applications can be kept private and shared with appropriate, selected persons.

==== ACTIVITY: Click the link for our example doc above, and collaborate to create one document that the entire class agrees upon. While doing this, think about how this experience is different than collaborating on the Word document during the Do-Now.====

= Part 2: Your own Google Doc account = 2. Click Sign In located in the upper right corner. 3. If you don't have an account, click under the sign-in area where it says "Create an account now." 4. Enter your school e-mail address as your login name. Create a password that will be easy for you to remember. 5. Once you have created your account and signed in, go back to []. From the menu bar in the upper left corner, select More -- Documents. 6. You have arrived in the file management area of Google Docs.**
 * 1. Go to @http://www.igoogle.com

= Part 3: Make a form and see others respond =

Once you are in the file management area of Google Docs, we are going to create forms and answer each other's forms. You can make the topic of the questions anything you want for now - find out peoples' favorite ice cream flavors, what color their cars are, what they did on their summer vacation - anything you want to know for the sake of some fun practice questions. Directions for how to make the form are in section "How to do it." === 1) Following the instructions below, everyone will create a short google form with 3 questions, and post your completed form here so that others can see and answer it: [|http://tinyurl.com/meyyct] ===


= How to do it: Excellent resources for learning Google Docs = Getting Started
 * **Video Tutorials for Google Docs** **

=The short version:= = Create a Google Form =

10. Copy the link address into your computer's memory (clipboard) by highlighting and pressing CTRL C (or using the menu to click on EDIT>COPY.)
= Create a Google Doc = 1. From the file management window, select "New Document" from the menu, or Upload (to import an existing Word document). 2. Create/update the document. 3. Editing, inserting images and linking work in a similar way to Microsoft Word. 4. Insert -- Comment allows viewers to comment on the document without making changes to the document. 5. Share -- Invite People into your document. Use the SDoL e-mail addresses.**