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Doesn't Google docs already do all of this? When you have several people editing a document at the same time in Google Docs, it takes about 5 seconds for an edit to show up. Google Spreadsheet handles real-time editing (using the cells as protectors) much better. Also, I still don't understand why Google Docs don't have notifications of changes like Google Spreadsheet. Google Docs are much harder to share with other people. MORE
Step 1: View the Google Doc version using this URL: [link]. Recently a group of students in the Foundations of Communities of Practice workshop completed a Word-Doc version of Chapter 10. Being able to write in the Word Doc was more useful than the PDF version because the boxes could expand according to how much there was to say about a particular topic for a particular community. (And Log in to Google Docs. MORE
In 2011 I now use Google Reader , and although it is no longer my most indispensable tool, it is still an important tool for me to keep up to date with what is happening in the “learning&# world. . 4 – In 2007 Feedblitz was an important tool for me to create a daily email from the RSS feed, although I now use Google Feedburner to do this job, it’s not one of my Top 10 tools. Well I’ve already mentioned four of them: Google Reader. Google Docs. MORE
He helped me pull together the following evaluation of a few different solutions: ClassMarker Quia ProProfs Google Docs Forms Creator, and Quibblo. Google Docs Forms Google Docs has a built-in Form document type that allows the creation of a set of questions. This can be an interesting quiz / test tool especially if you already use Google docs. MORE
Rick Klau points [ g+ ] to a feature of Google Docs spreadsheets I didn’t know about (although I’m far from a spreadsheet maven): It can automatically include a table from any HTML document accessible on the Web. Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to import a single element into a Google spreadsheet, even if it’s not in a list or a table? MORE
I’m at the Melbourne Google Enterprise Atmosphere on Tour event , the first of 25 events around the world. I am doing the keynote on The Evolution of Business at the Melbourne and Sydney events, giving an external perspective which happens to be highly aligned with the Google vision. The event included a Google Apps demo. The demo seemed to be over-emphasizing the concurrent editing and collaboration features of Google Docs, which I think of as pretty basic. MORE
Note: this is an unedited audio transcript generated by the Google sound recorder app on my Pixel 4. I actually do sign up for these mailing lists, although what I've done is I've created a separate email account on Google. Google meat. This is a Google Doc. MORE
Google Docs for quite a while now lets you write your own scripts. This is useful to me because I’m keeping the bibliography for Too Big to Know in a Google spreadsheet. So, I wrote one a year ago that turns the entries in a row in a spreadsheet into some plain old text. When I need to insert a footnote, it’s much easier to run this script and copy the text than it is to click into every cell in a row. MORE
Another used Screencast-o-matic to capture interaction with a google doc to share a lesson plan. Renee Hobbs from the Harrington School of Comm and Media is giving a talk about teachers as makers. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are warned , people. MORE
Oregon has signed a deal with Google that enables any school district to provide Google Apps for Education [ faq ] for free to its students and teachers. This includes Google Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Sites and Pages, Talk, Video, Groups, Docs, and Postini email management. Google Apps for Ed lets the school district use its own domain names rather than Google.com. One Google Account Per Child! MORE
Google Docs), but it’s central. Twice recently, I’ve been confronted with systems that claim to be collaboration platforms. And I think distributed collaboration is one of the most powerful options we have for accelerating our innovation. So in each case I did some investigation. Unfortunately, the claims didn’t hold up to scrutiny. And I think it’s important to understand why. Now, true collaboration is powerful. MORE
This is why most of the great stuff you can do on the Web is by grace of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, WordPress and countless others, including those third parties. MORE
A vote for Google will be a vote for Google Search, so if you want to vote for other Google tools, you will need to to name them indvidually, e.g. Google Docs, Google Reader. A vote for Google Apps will be for the badged collection of Google Apps for your organisation – not a generic term for all Google apps.). Voting closes: 12 noon BST (=GMT+1) Sunday 30 September 2012. MORE
And then Google Maps erupted on the scene, and demonstrated that not only was mapping not done, it really had only begun. But then how do you explain Google Docs? Tireless and timeless software commentator Dave Winer recently declared that "web browsers are done. Feature complete." His point is that product categories stop evolving, and when they reach that point of maturity, all that's left are the occasional tweaks to maintain compatibility with the latest platforms. MORE
I’ve looked at it many times and thought that it might be easier to see the big picture as a matrix , which I’ve created as a Google Document. If you would like to edit the Google Doc, or get it as a spreadsheet, please contact me. Jane Hart has an excellent resource on Case Studies for Social Media & Learning in the Workplace that she keeps up to date. MORE
3- Google Docs/Drive 87- OpenOffice. 30- Wikispaces 32- Google Sites 88- PB Works. 1- Twitter 9- Facebook 17- Google+ 23- LinkedIn. 45- SharePoint 55- Google Apps. 35- Google Chrome 65- Firefox and addons. 16- Google Reader. 4- Google Search 10- Wikipedia 52- Google Scholar 62- Bing. 38- Google Maps 51- SurveyMonkey 57- Google Translate. MORE
As Case notes, 44 years before google docs, 35 years before skype). Nicky Case (of Explorable Explanations and Parable of the Polygons internet fame) has a fantastic essay which picks up on the theme of my last Cyberselves post – technology as companion, not competitor. In How To Become A Centaur Case gives blitz history of AI, and of its lesser known cousin IA – Intelligence Augmentation. MORE
Similarly, Google Docs is too awkward, and I never got my mind around Scrivener. I’d cued up a topic for a post, and then a conversation with a friend and colleague moved it to the front of the queue. MORE
We had a good time co-writing using Google docs, a little skyping and slowly iterating back and forth. MORE
In the early days my favourite platform was Marratech , until they were bought by Google and some of the technology created Hangouts. When all you have is Zoom, every work-from-home office looks like an endless face-to-face video call. I have been working remotely since 2003. MORE
Pat Parslow and Shirley uploaded a version to a Google doc. My friend and colleague, Shirley Williams, pointed me to a great resource on digital identity (DI) that she and her colleagues created for their students at Reading University in the UK. It is called “ This Is Me.&#. As I saw that lovely Creative Commons license on it, I thought I’d whip up a version for folks interested in social media and the digital identity implications in the non profit and NGO sectors. MORE
Instead, I coordinate with one group with Slack, a couple others with Skype and email, and am using Google Docs and email with another. I woke up this morning thinking about the tools we use at various levels. Yeah, my life is exciting ;). Seriously, this is important, as the tools we use and provide through the organization impact the effectiveness with which people can work. MORE
Kate Bowles links to paper and a Google doc that raises additional questions. Something weird is happening at Coursera. I’m not sure what it is exactly, but have boiled it down to two options. Both are problematic. A bit of background. About two months ago, I posted a short article on a DesignJam that we hosted at UT Arlington. The designjam brought together numerous folks who had some interest in teaching and learning online, often at a massive scale (i.e. MOOCs). MORE
And… Honorable Mention: to round out the picture (10 is such an arbitrary number ;), sharing collaborative documents, e.g. Google Docs , is a major way to collaboratively process and learn together. MORE
And then Google Maps erupted on the scene, and demonstrated that not only was mapping not done, it really had only begun. But then how do you explain Google Docs? Tireless and timeless software commentator Dave Winer recently declared that "web browsers are done. Feature complete." His point is that product categories stop evolving, and when they reach that point of maturity, all that's left are the occasional tweaks to maintain compatibility with the latest platforms. MORE
But they are basically useless because there is no easy way to access and edit documents hosted on cloud servers such as Dropbox , Google Docs , or Box.net. After spending some time with them when I first bought an iPad, I have pretty much settled on Documents To Go, occasionally using the others, for example when I want to open a Google Doc at the same time as a document on Dropbox. Office doc formatting. MORE
If you want to see the current version of the bibliography, it’s available as a Google Docs spreadsheet here. Last night I sent my editor, Tim Bartlett, the next rev of Too Big to Know. It took me a few weeks of solid work – somewhat obsessive, perhaps – to respond to my editors’ comments because they were challenging at the level of my arguments (such as they are). MORE
Here’s the beginning: There is no denying that I am a Google fanboy. I switched from the Firefox browser to Google’s Chrome. I use Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs, and Google Maps, and I’d probably use Google Bugle and Google Tattoogle, if such things existed. So, Google’s joint proposal with Verizon hurt. Has Google cheated on me? MORE
You can find the collaborative draf here: This Is Me – Librarian Draft – Google Docs. Are you interested in Digital Identity? Do you know about the This Is Me project? It is an ongoing project out of Odin Labs at Reading University in the UK that offers activities and worksheets for people to understand the role and implications of digital identity and explore their own digital identity. MORE
Yes there is some stuff that still gets printed off, but nowadays is it more likely that the same content can be presented as a web site, shared as an editable Google Doc, or read as PDFs, ePub, and on umpteen different devices with different demands and formats. I remember David Weinberger once saying that "documents are dead" Would that things were that simple! I watch people in business struggling with the persistent idea that documents are how we convey information. MORE
Though they may use a variety of services - such as Blogger, Flickr, YouTube, Google Docs, and more - to store their work, they will need to manage these resources, index them, and enable access to them. I was asked, I think that it would be of a great interest that you (as a world wide reference in education) can write a very brief review (between 200-300 words) about your vision regarding ePortfolios. MORE
Links to cases could be entered into a publicly-accessible website; Groom adapted WordPress to collect them, though you could also use an openly-accessible Google Doc or a discussion list. Right, I've never used one in a MOOC. MORE
For example, working as a team on a large report using a tool such as Google Docs allows each person to work on it at different times. MORE
I do like the fact that Google has a “ Google Data Liberation Front.&# Their mission: “Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Google announced another positive step in this direction for Google Docs. All this is good, and even if it’s over-marketing Google’s openness, it’s the right value to be marketing. MORE
Dan says that all of the sessions have Google Docs already set up for collaborative note-taking [an approach I''m very fond of Dan Cohen has some announcements in his welcome to the DPLAfest. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other peopleâ??s s ideas and words. You are warned, people. MORE
Dan says that all of the sessions have Google Docs already set up for collaborative note-taking [an approach I''m very fond of Dan Cohen has some announcements in his welcome to the DPLAfest. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are warned, people. MORE
Rather than liveblogging in this blog, I contributed to the collaboratively-written Google Doc designated for the session notes. I’m at a DPLAfest session. Jean Bauer (Digital Humanities Librarian, Brown U.), Jim Egan (English Prof, Brown), Kathryn Shaughnessy (Assoc. Prof, University Libraries, St. John’s U), and David Smth (Ass’t Prof CS, Northeastern). MORE
I use Google mail as a personal inbox, Thunderbird to actually read and write email, and Outlook at work, which used to work with Thunderbird, but is now so locked-down it barely works with itself. Jane Hart has issued her annual call for our top ten e-learning tools, and here's mine. MORE
I’m delivering a presentation in a few weeks to a “large technology company that everyone knows but I can’t name because of onerous procedures for clearing name use&# on Connectivism in the Enterprise: doc file and Google docs version. MORE
Wikis were becoming more popular, especially those that replicated word processesors, like Writely , which was later purchased to become Google Docs, used ubiquitously today. In the next few years, the use of collaborative work technologies, such as Google Docs or Sharepoint, will grow, while stand-alone learning applications will see a decline. MORE
With IBSTPI and others, Google Docs are a frequent way to develop and share documents. So, I work from home. A lot. And lots of folks are providing advice for those who have to make the shift in these interesting times. Rather than talk about what you should do, however, I thought I’d share what I do. So this is how I work. This is my workspace. That’s a convertible desk, so I can be standing or sitting. MORE
3 - Google Docs/Drive. So rather than passing around a number of Word documents and trying to collate the results manually, using a collaboration tool like Google Docs makes this an easy process. But there’s lots more you can do with Google Docs too. 4 - Google Search. Google is the most popular web search engine, and frequently described as the only e-learning tool you’ll ever need. MORE
I use Google Docs a lot because I frequently want to share my drafts with some set of people and because no-frills writing software keeps me from distracting myself with frills. But, as a writing tool, Google Docs heads us back to somewhere between NotePad and a 1998 wysiwyg HTML editor. For it to catch on for anything more than the occasional shared doc, it needs to add a whole bunch of features that leverage its social usage. MORE
The top tool for the 4 th year running is Twitter, with both YouTube (2 nd ) and Google Docs (aka Google Drive) (3 rd ) retaining their places for the 3 rd year in succession. This year’s Top 100 Tools for Learning list (the 6th Annual Survey) has been compiled from the votes of 582 learning professionals worldwide – 55% working in education, 45% working in non-educational organizations. MORE
Google Docs Related Topics David Weinberger
JULY 27, 2012
Rick Klau points [ g+ ] to a feature of Google Docs spreadsheets I didn’t know about (although I’m far from a spreadsheet maven): It can automatically include a table from any HTML document accessible on the Web. Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to import a single element into a Google spreadsheet, even if it’s not in a list or a table?
David Weinberger
MAY 25, 2009
I use Google Docs a lot because I frequently want to share my drafts with some set of people and because no-frills writing software keeps me from distracting myself with frills. But, as a writing tool, Google Docs heads us back to somewhere between NotePad and a 1998 wysiwyg HTML editor. For it to catch on for anything more than the occasional shared doc, it needs to add a whole bunch of features that leverage its social usage.
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Nancy White
JULY 31, 2008
We had a good time co-writing using Google docs, a little skyping and slowly iterating back and forth.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Links to cases could be entered into a publicly-accessible website; Groom adapted WordPress to collect them, though you could also use an openly-accessible Google Doc or a discussion list. Right, I've never used one in a MOOC.
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 25, 2013
Rather than liveblogging in this blog, I contributed to the collaboratively-written Google Doc designated for the session notes. I’m at a DPLAfest session. Jean Bauer (Digital Humanities Librarian, Brown U.), Jim Egan (English Prof, Brown), Kathryn Shaughnessy (Assoc. Prof, University Libraries, St. John’s U), and David Smth (Ass’t Prof CS, Northeastern).
George Siemens
JULY 15, 2010
I’m delivering a presentation in a few weeks to a “large technology company that everyone knows but I can’t name because of onerous procedures for clearing name use&# on Connectivism in the Enterprise: doc file and Google docs version.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 16, 2021
Similarly, Google Docs is too awkward, and I never got my mind around Scrivener. I’d cued up a topic for a post, and then a conversation with a friend and colleague moved it to the front of the queue.
George Siemens
JULY 5, 2014
Kate Bowles links to paper and a Google doc that raises additional questions. Something weird is happening at Coursera. I’m not sure what it is exactly, but have boiled it down to two options. Both are problematic. A bit of background. About two months ago, I posted a short article on a DesignJam that we hosted at UT Arlington. The designjam brought together numerous folks who had some interest in teaching and learning online, often at a massive scale (i.e. MOOCs).
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 18, 2020
And… Honorable Mention: to round out the picture (10 is such an arbitrary number ;), sharing collaborative documents, e.g. Google Docs , is a major way to collaboratively process and learn together.
Harold Jarche
MAY 11, 2020
In the early days my favourite platform was Marratech , until they were bought by Google and some of the technology created Hangouts. When all you have is Zoom, every work-from-home office looks like an endless face-to-face video call. I have been working remotely since 2003.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 11, 2020
I use Google mail as a personal inbox, Thunderbird to actually read and write email, and Outlook at work, which used to work with Thunderbird, but is now so locked-down it barely works with itself. Jane Hart has issued her annual call for our top ten e-learning tools, and here's mine.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
AUGUST 31, 2020
Note: this is an unedited audio transcript generated by the Google sound recorder app on my Pixel 4. I actually do sign up for these mailing lists, although what I've done is I've created a separate email account on Google. Google meat. This is a Google Doc.
Nancy White
JANUARY 3, 2012
Step 1: View the Google Doc version using this URL: [link]. Recently a group of students in the Foundations of Communities of Practice workshop completed a Word-Doc version of Chapter 10. Being able to write in the Word Doc was more useful than the PDF version because the boxes could expand according to how much there was to say about a particular topic for a particular community. (And Log in to Google Docs.
Harold Jarche
MARCH 15, 2010
I’ve looked at it many times and thought that it might be easier to see the big picture as a matrix , which I’ve created as a Google Document. If you would like to edit the Google Doc, or get it as a spreadsheet, please contact me. Jane Hart has an excellent resource on Case Studies for Social Media & Learning in the Workplace that she keeps up to date.
Euen Semple
MAY 17, 2018
Yes there is some stuff that still gets printed off, but nowadays is it more likely that the same content can be presented as a web site, shared as an editable Google Doc, or read as PDFs, ePub, and on umpteen different devices with different demands and formats. I remember David Weinberger once saying that "documents are dead" Would that things were that simple! I watch people in business struggling with the persistent idea that documents are how we convey information.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 24, 2020
With IBSTPI and others, Google Docs are a frequent way to develop and share documents. So, I work from home. A lot. And lots of folks are providing advice for those who have to make the shift in these interesting times. Rather than talk about what you should do, however, I thought I’d share what I do. So this is how I work. This is my workspace. That’s a convertible desk, so I can be standing or sitting.
Doc Searls
MAY 14, 2021
This is why most of the great stuff you can do on the Web is by grace of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, WordPress and countless others, including those third parties.
David Weinberger
JULY 14, 2010
Google Docs for quite a while now lets you write your own scripts. This is useful to me because I’m keeping the bibliography for Too Big to Know in a Google spreadsheet. So, I wrote one a year ago that turns the entries in a row in a spreadsheet into some plain old text. When I need to insert a footnote, it’s much easier to run this script and copy the text than it is to click into every cell in a row.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
A vote for Google will be a vote for Google Search, so if you want to vote for other Google tools, you will need to to name them indvidually, e.g. Google Docs, Google Reader. A vote for Google Apps will be for the badged collection of Google Apps for your organisation – not a generic term for all Google apps.). Voting closes: 12 noon BST (=GMT+1) Sunday 30 September 2012.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 20, 2008
Doesn't Google docs already do all of this? When you have several people editing a document at the same time in Google Docs, it takes about 5 seconds for an edit to show up. Google Spreadsheet handles real-time editing (using the cells as protectors) much better. Also, I still don't understand why Google Docs don't have notifications of changes like Google Spreadsheet. Google Docs are much harder to share with other people.
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 1, 2012
The top tool for the 4 th year running is Twitter, with both YouTube (2 nd ) and Google Docs (aka Google Drive) (3 rd ) retaining their places for the 3 rd year in succession. This year’s Top 100 Tools for Learning list (the 6th Annual Survey) has been compiled from the votes of 582 learning professionals worldwide – 55% working in education, 45% working in non-educational organizations.
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 25, 2013
Dan says that all of the sessions have Google Docs already set up for collaborative note-taking [an approach I''m very fond of Dan Cohen has some announcements in his welcome to the DPLAfest. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are warned, people.
Mind Hacks
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
As Case notes, 44 years before google docs, 35 years before skype). Nicky Case (of Explorable Explanations and Parable of the Polygons internet fame) has a fantastic essay which picks up on the theme of my last Cyberselves post – technology as companion, not competitor. In How To Become A Centaur Case gives blitz history of AI, and of its lesser known cousin IA – Intelligence Augmentation.
Nancy White
MAY 19, 2009
Pat Parslow and Shirley uploaded a version to a Google doc. My friend and colleague, Shirley Williams, pointed me to a great resource on digital identity (DI) that she and her colleagues created for their students at Reading University in the UK. It is called “ This Is Me.&#. As I saw that lovely Creative Commons license on it, I thought I’d whip up a version for folks interested in social media and the digital identity implications in the non profit and NGO sectors.
Jane Hart
SEPTEMBER 5, 2011
In 2011 I now use Google Reader , and although it is no longer my most indispensable tool, it is still an important tool for me to keep up to date with what is happening in the “learning&# world. . 4 – In 2007 Feedblitz was an important tool for me to create a daily email from the RSS feed, although I now use Google Feedburner to do this job, it’s not one of my Top 10 tools. Well I’ve already mentioned four of them: Google Reader. Google Docs.
Adaptive Path
JUNE 30, 2011
And then Google Maps erupted on the scene, and demonstrated that not only was mapping not done, it really had only begun. But then how do you explain Google Docs? Tireless and timeless software commentator Dave Winer recently declared that "web browsers are done. Feature complete." His point is that product categories stop evolving, and when they reach that point of maturity, all that's left are the occasional tweaks to maintain compatibility with the latest platforms.
Adaptive Path
JUNE 30, 2011
And then Google Maps erupted on the scene, and demonstrated that not only was mapping not done, it really had only begun. But then how do you explain Google Docs? Tireless and timeless software commentator Dave Winer recently declared that "web browsers are done. Feature complete." His point is that product categories stop evolving, and when they reach that point of maturity, all that's left are the occasional tweaks to maintain compatibility with the latest platforms.
David Weinberger
AUGUST 13, 2010
Here’s the beginning: There is no denying that I am a Google fanboy. I switched from the Firefox browser to Google’s Chrome. I use Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs, and Google Maps, and I’d probably use Google Bugle and Google Tattoogle, if such things existed. So, Google’s joint proposal with Verizon hurt. Has Google cheated on me?
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 13, 2011
But they are basically useless because there is no easy way to access and edit documents hosted on cloud servers such as Dropbox , Google Docs , or Box.net. After spending some time with them when I first bought an iPad, I have pretty much settled on Documents To Go, occasionally using the others, for example when I want to open a Google Doc at the same time as a document on Dropbox. Office doc formatting.
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 25, 2013
Dan says that all of the sessions have Google Docs already set up for collaborative note-taking [an approach I''m very fond of Dan Cohen has some announcements in his welcome to the DPLAfest. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other peopleâ??s s ideas and words. You are warned, people.
David Weinberger
JUNE 3, 2015
Another used Screencast-o-matic to capture interaction with a google doc to share a lesson plan. Renee Hobbs from the Harrington School of Comm and Media is giving a talk about teachers as makers. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. You are warned , people.
Jane Hart
OCTOBER 8, 2012
3 - Google Docs/Drive. So rather than passing around a number of Word documents and trying to collate the results manually, using a collaboration tool like Google Docs makes this an easy process. But there’s lots more you can do with Google Docs too. 4 - Google Search. Google is the most popular web search engine, and frequently described as the only e-learning tool you’ll ever need.
Jane Hart
JANUARY 17, 2013
3- Google Docs/Drive 87- OpenOffice. 30- Wikispaces 32- Google Sites 88- PB Works. 1- Twitter 9- Facebook 17- Google+ 23- LinkedIn. 45- SharePoint 55- Google Apps. 35- Google Chrome 65- Firefox and addons. 16- Google Reader. 4- Google Search 10- Wikipedia 52- Google Scholar 62- Bing. 38- Google Maps 51- SurveyMonkey 57- Google Translate.
Nancy White
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
You can find the collaborative draf here: This Is Me – Librarian Draft – Google Docs. Are you interested in Digital Identity? Do you know about the This Is Me project? It is an ongoing project out of Odin Labs at Reading University in the UK that offers activities and worksheets for people to understand the role and implications of digital identity and explore their own digital identity.
Trends in the Living Networks
APRIL 17, 2012
I’m at the Melbourne Google Enterprise Atmosphere on Tour event , the first of 25 events around the world. I am doing the keynote on The Evolution of Business at the Melbourne and Sydney events, giving an external perspective which happens to be highly aligned with the Google vision. The event included a Google Apps demo. The demo seemed to be over-emphasizing the concurrent editing and collaboration features of Google Docs, which I think of as pretty basic.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 23, 2013
Though they may use a variety of services - such as Blogger, Flickr, YouTube, Google Docs, and more - to store their work, they will need to manage these resources, index them, and enable access to them. I was asked, I think that it would be of a great interest that you (as a world wide reference in education) can write a very brief review (between 200-300 words) about your vision regarding ePortfolios.
Harold Jarche
MAY 27, 2010
Wikis were becoming more popular, especially those that replicated word processesors, like Writely , which was later purchased to become Google Docs, used ubiquitously today. In the next few years, the use of collaborative work technologies, such as Google Docs or Sharepoint, will grow, while stand-alone learning applications will see a decline.
David Weinberger
APRIL 28, 2010
Oregon has signed a deal with Google that enables any school district to provide Google Apps for Education [ faq ] for free to its students and teachers. This includes Google Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Sites and Pages, Talk, Video, Groups, Docs, and Postini email management. Google Apps for Ed lets the school district use its own domain names rather than Google.com. One Google Account Per Child!
David Weinberger
MARCH 14, 2011
If you want to see the current version of the bibliography, it’s available as a Google Docs spreadsheet here. Last night I sent my editor, Tim Bartlett, the next rev of Too Big to Know. It took me a few weeks of solid work – somewhat obsessive, perhaps – to respond to my editors’ comments because they were challenging at the level of my arguments (such as they are).
Tony Karrer
AUGUST 31, 2010
He helped me pull together the following evaluation of a few different solutions: ClassMarker Quia ProProfs Google Docs Forms Creator, and Quibblo. Google Docs Forms Google Docs has a built-in Form document type that allows the creation of a set of questions. This can be an interesting quiz / test tool especially if you already use Google docs.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 2, 2016
Google Docs), but it’s central. Twice recently, I’ve been confronted with systems that claim to be collaboration platforms. And I think distributed collaboration is one of the most powerful options we have for accelerating our innovation. So in each case I did some investigation. Unfortunately, the claims didn’t hold up to scrutiny. And I think it’s important to understand why. Now, true collaboration is powerful.
Clark Quinn
JUNE 14, 2016
Instead, I coordinate with one group with Slack, a couple others with Skype and email, and am using Google Docs and email with another. I woke up this morning thinking about the tools we use at various levels. Yeah, my life is exciting ;). Seriously, this is important, as the tools we use and provide through the organization impact the effectiveness with which people can work.
Beth Kanter
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
For example, working as a team on a large report using a tool such as Google Docs allows each person to work on it at different times.
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