Tag: google docs

Collaborate and create documents together – with google drive, desktop edition.

Michael Chalk2 CommentsUncategorized

3 Questions: Are you using google docs? (aka google drive) Have you noticed that you can now access your google drive files and folders via your desktop? Have you noticed that you can share any kind of file via this cloud system now, not just google documents? Google drive is now a lot like dropbox – a place to share files and folders with people in different locations. You get 5gb of storage space, and you can access and manage the filing system via your local file manager*.  [*eg: Windows Read More …

Collaborative authoring.. a live session

Michael Chalk2 CommentsUncategorized

Thanks to all who attended this session.We attempted a “live document editing activity” during the session, which went pretty well i thought (michael). Jill was nervous about it, because she was running that activity, and it can be nerve-wracking. From my perspective, she was amazing. It takes a lot of skill to do application-sharing and web touring all at once. Here’s the presentation from the session. Please post any follow-up questions in the comments here, or over on the network “Ning”. Recording link to follow. 3pm, Tuesday 20 March. Learn all about Read More …

Let’s Google it!

Michael Chalk1 CommentUncategorized

It seems that not only has ‘Google’ entered the English language as a verb describing the most ubiquitous web searching tool/ process on the planet, but its other components are becoming equally obligatory work tools. This year is the Year of Google Documents: not only can you share your docs in the cloud but you can invite others to collaborate, that is, to edit them anywhere anytime – even simultaneously whilst you’re working on the very same one! Other must-have features include: a neat Revisions History that reveals each editor’s Read More …

The Ten Step Wiki Plan

Michael ChalkLeave a commentprofessional development, Uncategorized

Now that we’ve nearly finished our round of initial site visits to the 11 centres involved in the E-mentor project in 2011, it seems that the Ten Step Wiki Plan originally developed for staff at Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre (CNLC) last year to identify component e-skills has universal and immediate application for a number of centres. If you’re thinking of starting and developing a wiki for students or for staff, or even generally building people’s e-skills for producing internet-ready teaching resources, then this stepped plan will be useful to you. Read More …