2. What is Google Docs?
0 Google Docs allows users to create documents,
spreadsheets and presentations online. With Google
Docs, you can also create forms, drawings and tables.
0 Google Docs are FREE with a Goggle account!!! If you
have one, you can get one of those FREE here!

3. Google Doc Uses
0 Google Docs can be used in so many ways.
0 Three that I suggest are:
0 Use of the anywhere anytime workspace
0 A tool for creating surveys and data collection
0 A means for collaboration

4. Anytime/Anywhere Uses
0 The most basic way to use Google Docs is simply for
word processing, spreadsheet making or
presentations.
0 Google Docs are great because students that need to
take documents home to work on can upload their
work into Google Docs to finish at home.
0 This is a wonderful solution to students not having
and/or losing their USB drives and provides a solution
for students who do not have Microsoft Office at home.

5. Surveys & Data Collection
0 You can also use Google Docs is to customize and create a
survey/poll that can be completed via the internet.
0 This solves the problem of needing to get information
and/or feedback from people face to face.
0 I recently used it as a unit survey to get anonymous feedback
from my students to see how well I covered a unit.
0 I have also used it when creating a professional development
session to determine the needs or the staff.
0 After your audience has completed the form/survey, all the
results are neatly aggregated on a Google spreadsheet for
you to review, such as this one.

6. Collaboration
0 The main reason I love Google Docs and selected it to share with
you is for the collaboration tool.
0 You can share your work with your peers and/or students for
them to review and edit. Multiple users can edit simultaneously.
0 This could be used by you for use with students, use with fellow
educators and/or for use personally.
0 With students, Google Docs allows for you to provide feedback to
your students electronically.
0 With peers, you can work together (without physically being
together) to create materials, such as the concept map we created
last semester in groups.
0 Personally, you can use Google Docs in a thousand ways. Recently,
I used it with some friends when planning a trip. Everyone was
able to contribute to the list of what we needed to bring and who
was bring what.