Nowadays, I get the same feeling of dread when I open an email to see a Microsoft Word document attached. Time and effort are about to be wasted cleaning up someone's archaic habits. A Word file is the story-fax of the early 21st century: cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology. It's time to give up on Word.
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Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank a... - 44 views
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Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... for free! * Flubaroo works with Google docs. Click if you need an introduction to Google docs.
Google Apps Training - 1 views
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Google Apps Start page. Tutorials from Google on Calendar, Talk, Docs, Sites. These are audio enhanced overviews with animated graphics. Good Stuff. However the catch is that this is an Apps oriented overview. It's intended for webmasters who are installing Google apps on their domains. The tutorials still apply to the individual Google tools, but it might be confusing for folks who are only interested in a single product.
The Online Collaboration Tools Guide - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views
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Good overview
21st C Literacy Ave Home - 0 views
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On my blog, mostly geared towards educational thoughts, reflections, and motivations, I am showing examples of mixing various web2.0 tools together. During the summer, I have a form that the reader can complete on summer reading interests. Each Monday, I hope to post a summary of what those participating have shared from around the world. And then, of course comments are welcomed. Thus, this is a real connecting use of the Internet, offering lots of participation and engaging thoughts!
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This wiki was created to support a 20 minute CUE Tips session at the 2008 CUE conference and was updated for CUE 2009. Blogs, Wikis, and Google Docs can be powerful and easy to use tools for educators, but their features are overlapping and it can sometimes be difficult to know which one is right to meet a given need.
Web 2.0 Tools Educators Must know - 75 views
Death to Microsoft Word - 0 views
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A Word file is the story-fax of the early 21st century: cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology.
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For most people now, though, publishing means putting things on the web. Desktop publishing has given way to laptop or smartphone publishing. And Microsoft Word is an atrocious tool for web writing
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Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology. Tom Scocca believes it's time we all gave it up.
EduDemic » 41 New Ways Google Docs Makes Your Life Easier - 0 views
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New version of Google documents
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The new version has chat, character-by-character real time co-editing, and makes imports and exports much better
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Over the next couple of weeks, they’re rolling out the ability to upload, store, and share any file in Google Docs
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Google Docs newest features
Google Docs - Viewer - 0 views
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Nice for embedding pdf or PPT files on your webpage, or providing a link to the file that can be viewed right in the browser. However, the document must be uploaded somewhere online first - must have a URL to access it.
Free Technology for Teachers: New Discussion Features in Google Docs - 0 views
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Google Docs has had a commenting system for almost a year now. That system is a good one that I use for commenting on my students' writing. In fact, I just finished commenting on half a dozen essays.
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Right now discussions in Google Docs is only available for new documents. If you created a document prior to this morning, it won't have the discussion feature enabl
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Commects and discussions in Google Docs
AHS Google Forms - 29 views
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Examples of Google Forms in education
Flubaroo - automatic grading and feedback for Google Form - 38 views
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Google Docs script that allows you to automatically grade responses collected via a Google Form and simplifies providing individual student feedback.
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