Getting Started with Google Docs
Purpose
Understand how to use Google Docs in the classroom to create, share, collaborate and publish works.
In this tutorial sheet you will learn how to:
Create a Google Account
Create a New Document
Save a New Document
Rename a New Document
Upload an Existing Document
Basic Editing
Tagging a Document
Collaborating and Sharing a Document
Revise and Add Comments to a Document
Publishing a Document
Copying a Document
The problem is that to have a Google Docs account, you need an email address. You need it to verify your Google Docs account. Most elementary and some middle school students don't have email addresses and their parents may not want them to have one. Mailcatch.com is a disposable email address service. You create an email address by just using it. Then you go to mailcatch.com and retrieve any emails sent to it. In a few hours, the email disappears. You can't send email from it and you can return to it to get recovery password emails.
Video that might appeal to K-12 teachers.
Teachers talk about how it gives the students control over what they are doing. With access from any computer, students are able to work on their assignments virtually anywhere. Whether they are out from school, on vacation or working from home, they can stay up-to-date with assignments and group projects.
Prompted in part by a presentation I have to give tomorrow as an OU eLearning community session (I hope some folks turn up - the 90 minute session on Mashing Up the PLE - RSS edition is the only reason I'm going in…), and in part by Scott Leslie's compelling programme for a similar duration Mashing Up your own PLE session (scene scetting here: Hunting the Wily "PLE"), I started having a tinker with using Google spreadsheets as for data table screenscraping.
If you want to send out a personalized mass email, much like most companies' marketing emails, creating a mail merge is the easiest way. Unlike the antiquated mail merges of days past, you can do it in Gmail with half the headache.
If you haven't looked at Google Docs recently, now's a good time to check it out. The office suite, which works entirely within a browser window, has slowly but steadily continued to evolve into a highly usable set of free tools.
structured way to review someone's paper Find instances of, eg, thesis staement in paper and paste it into paragraph. Then comment on its adequacy. Great exercise but doesn't look like in-class material.