Childress Chatter

Google Docs is a fabulous collaborative tool.  You would have access to your files at any computer with access to the Internet and you can share those documents with the world or with a few. Our school district struggles with 1) ways to allow students to collaborate when they don’t have the same software, 2) finding safe ways for students to transfer files from home to school and 3) storage space for saving these files to District servers.   These applications seem to be able to satisfy these needs. 

I am sure if you have access to the “full blown” products, it might be hard to give up all the bells and whistles.  It does provide the import and export features that would allow you to work on content through the collaborative stage and then import to upgrade the presentation mode.    Most of us, especially students, spend more time with the design and glitz of a presentation and the content suffers.  There is something to be said for focusing on content first.

It seems like this is a great way for strapped school districts to save time and money and get people working in a collaborative mode.