1. Google Docs:Collaborate and Create for Free Joel Handler jhandler@hillsborough.k12.nj.us Director of Technology Hillsborough Township Public Schools

2. Lets Work Together on a Document....

4. Everyone sits together around a screen.

5. Physical and time constraints

6. Central coordinator who keeps the "master”.

7. Too limiting and missing true collaboration.

8. Can become overwhelming quickly for coordinator.

9. Email revisions back and forth.

10. Multiple copies.

12. Spreadsheet

13. Online Forms

14. Presentation Tool

15. Drawing Tool

16. pdf documents

17. Online Storage Space

19. How to Get Started Go to https://docs.google.com

20. Cloud Storage and Online Documents

21. Cloud Storage and Online Documents

23. Convert documents - up to 1 MB per file (.doc, .docx, .odt, .sxw, .rtf, .txt, .htm, .html)

24. Convert presentations - up to 10 MB per file (.ppt, .pps)

25. Convert spreadsheets - up to 1 MB per file (.xls, .xlsx, .ods, .csv)

26. Convert drawings - up to 2 MB per file (.wmf)

28. Online Google - Spreadsheets

29. Templates – Wow So Many!

31. Data is automatically tabulated into either a summary sheet or individual score spreadsheet.

34. Spreadsheets: 400,000 cells, with a maximum of 256 columns per sheet. Uploaded document files 1MB.

35. Presentations: 10MB (about 200 slides). Uploaded document files 10MB.

36. Files that you upload but don’t convert to Google Docs format take up to a total of 1GB.

37. Offline version now available on selected platforms.May not be the perfect solution for all cases….

39. Too complex

40. Too large

41. No need to collaborate

42. Require Internet Access (Offline capability is available…)

43. Access from any computer, anywhere, anytime

44. True Multiuser Collaboration

45. Flexible

48. Other Resources Google Tutorials http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews/welcome/topicDocs/index.html Why Google Apps for Education? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRYRbPCHTck&feature=channel Mobile Editing in Google Docs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAr5VoYdVBo

49. Questions Joel Handler jhandler@hillsborough.k12.nj.us