Welcome Dearborn Media Specialists!
This blog is being visited today by media specialists in the Dearborn Public Schools. Enjoy your visit, and I hope you’ll leave us a comment about what you found that was useful, as well as your ideas for making our school libraries more Web 2.0 friendly!
November 7th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
The perfect web-based 2.0 tool is Google docs. Great for student group work. Go to Google, click on more, then select Documents Create an account (if you already haven’t)nothing more than creating a web-based document - writing and editing until they’ve cooperatively composed their web document. Each are e-mailed a copy, one person should be nominated to compose the final group document before submitting.
November 7th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
I agree! For my current book project, my co-author (in San Diego) and I are using Google Docs. We often start drafting in Word, then upload to Google Docs. We use Skype to talk for free over the Internet, and we’re able to simultaneously edit different parts of our Google document while we talk. It’s a wonderful tool. When we’re ready to send something to our editor, Google Docs lets us export the document back into Word or PDF or HTML.
Google Docs doesn’t have all of the formatting features that a word processing program like Word has, but it sure makes long-distance collaboration easy!