Google Docs
Google Docs is a free Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application tool. This tool originated from merging Writely and Spreadsheets features into a single product on October 10, 2006. A third product for presentations designed by Tonic Systems was incorporated and Google released the product on September 17, 2007.
Google Docs is Googles’s software as a service. Documents, spreadsheets, forms and presentations can be created, imported from the web, or sent by email. User’s work can be saved on their computer in several formats and saved to Google servers. The service is supported on browsers running on Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux operating systems. The user can store documents not exceeding 500k, embedded images not more than 2MB each, and spreadsheets limited to 256 columns, 200,000 cells, and 99 sheets. No more than 5,000 documents and presentations, 5,000 images, 1,000 spreadsheets, and 100 PDFs are permitted at a single period of time.
This web-based service allows documents that can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users and non-users in real time. The service product permits opportunity for people to save valuable time by keeping meeting times to a minimum while working in a group distance apart on a collaborative assignment.
Teachers can effectively use Google Docs to create a channel of communication between teachers and students, and participants from others outside of the class on any particular assignment. Students can publish, share, collaborate on documents, presentations, and brainstorming assignments anywhere there is Internet access. Professionally teachers can network with other teachers to solicit ideas, formats, contents, and slogans to specific projects utilizing documents, forms, surveys, and chat-line.
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