Google Docs Can Cure Your Headaches

Cindy Lane

Lane.cindy@gmail.com

Symptoms

Email Waste-itis

Inbox Overloadus

I can never “go green” ache

I have looked in every file cabinet…

Google Docs can heal all of these

symptoms!

There's a way one can: *use word*do a spreadsheet *create a presentation*save it online

GoogleDocsRock

CLOUDCOMPUTINGEverything in Google

Docs is “stored” where I am--in the clouds!

History of Storage Devices

CLOUDCOMPUTINGEverything is in the clouds!

A Free Google Account

Go to www.google.com and sign in

OR create your own google account

Google Spreadsheet 50

YES, 50 people can be on the same spreadsheet at the same time!

Google Docs 10

YES, 10 people can be on the same document at the same time!

Use a Table in a Document to facilitate collaboration

Unlike Spreadsheets with cells and Presentations with pages, Documents are an open space, and can sometimes exacerbate communication problems when collaborating.

Consider a TABLE when you are working in large numbers in a Document. Adds structure to a page by adding a TABLE or simple headings to where people are working.

Google Presentation 10

YES, 10 people can be on the same document

at the same time!

Google Forms

• Share information • Create an assessment • Get feedback• Group unique stats and share out

Google Forms

Let's TRY it out!

http://xrl.us/googleform

"access from any computer connected to the internet and collaborate with others on the same document." 

Already have aPower Point?Spreadsheet?

Word Document?

Check out the spreadsheet I

downloaded to my Google

Spreadsheet from my bud at eTrade!

Google DocsTo access your documents and spreadsheets when you're not at a computer, you can sign in to Google Docs from your BlackBerry web browser.

For more information, go to: http://www.google.com/mobile/blackberry/

http://www.google.com/mobile/iphone/

Visit m.google.com/search using your phone's web browser and they will send the right version of Google Mobile App to you.  (Basically, you download the app from itunes for your iphone.)

Any Questions?

Cindy LaneCindy LaneEmail: lane.cindy@gmail.com