Google Docs Presented By: Ray Pastore Penn State University and Dr. Ray Pastore Bloomsburg University
Trends in technology - Open source - Web Software on the web - Blogs, wikis, forums, and now word processing - Myspace/Facebook - Youtube - Lots of competition, Google is the frontrunner
What are google docs? "Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of two services, Writely and Spreadsheets, which were merged into a single product on October 10, A third product for presentations, including technology designed by Tonic Systems, was released on September 17, 2007." - wikipedia,
Registering/Accessing Google Docs Registering: How to register for Google Docs..... Accessing:
Interface - Create new files - Share files - View all current files - See who was the last to edit files - Help and features:
Documents - Documents saved on Google Servers - Invite Collaborators - Save as.doc and.pdf - Insert images, tables, and comments - View changes - Print - Has most features of Microsoft Word Sources:
Spreadsheets - Similar to Microsoft Excel - Save as.xls,.pdf..html - Perform calculations and functions - Create charts - Create sheets
Presentations - Save as.pdf - Publish to web - upload.ppt files - change background - insert images
Mobile Mobile: - Docs and Spreadsheets work on all cell phones with browsers and internet connections - Presentations do not - Presentations will work on iPhone as it has a web browser, Safarihttp://docs.google.com/m - Can only view, cannot edit docs.html docs.html
Uses Project -based Learning Collaboration Reports Group Presentations
Advantages/Disadvantages Advantages - Free - Ubiquitous - Clean, easy, user-friendly - When new features are available, they are offered immediately, no more waiting for upgrades - Supports revisions from multiple users - Nothing to download/install - Publishes.doc,.xls Disadvantages - Google has your files - Cannot handle large complex files - Have to be online, with high speed internet, or else data can be lost - will be corrected with Google gears, an opensource extension - Does not publish.ppt
Alternatives Open-Office Microsoft Office Neo-Office Abi Word * - None of these are online * - None of these offer revisions from other users * - All of these require software to install
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End of presentation: Google and Microsoft
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