Screenshots and annotations to complement the "Google Docs to foster collaboration in the classroom and professionally" session of the faculty summer workshop program, Purchase College SUNY, May 2009

1. Google Docs to foster collabora/on
in the classroom and professionally
Purchase College
Faculty Summer Workshops 2009

2. Workshop agenda
• Why online document collabora/on?
• GeBng started with Google Docs
• Working with documents, spreadsheets and
presenta/ons
• Sharing documents for collabora/on & review
• Publishing your documents
• Using forms for online surveys
• Google Docs in the classroom

3. Collabora/ng
by email
hIp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA
Who’s got what version
with what revisions?

4. Collabora/ng by Google Docs
Everyone working
on the same, up‐
to‐date copy
Google keeps
track of Export off‐line documents
version history when finished

5. SeBng up a Google account
• hIp://www.google.com
• ‘Sign in’ link
• ‘Create an account now’ link
• Email, password, loca/on, CAPTCHA, Submit
• Confirma/on email
• Signing in at google.com
• Review of services available

6. Google Docs overview
Documents list
‐ Text documents
‐ Spreadsheets
Documents ‐ Presenta/ons
organiza/on ‐ Online forms

7. New ‐> Document (word processing)
Click /tle to change
Text processing area
Standard menus and toolbar

8. Menu op/ons
Revisions
Export op/ons

9. New ‐> Presenta/on
Click to change /tle
Insert text boxes or images
Add or delete slides
View
speaker’s
notes
Fill in text fields as in PowerPoint

10. Slide ‐> New slide (or click
on the new slide buIon)
Edit ‐> Theme

11. Anima/ng text and images,
arranging content Right‐click or ctrl‐click
for pop up menu
Incremental reveal of bullet points
Tools for arranging content
Turn on incremental review

12. New ‐> Spreadsheet
Title
Formulas
Graphs
Mul/ple sheets

13. New ‐> Form (online survey) Email survey invites
Publish
Enter /tle survey
Required ques/on
Access results
spreadsheet
Add
ques/ons
Edit/delete tools
Ques/on types

14. Sharing /
publishing
Collaborate
Publish
Email invita/ons Click here to make web accessible
to collaborators
(or reviewers)
RSS feed to track changes