Documents

=Google Documents=

Here's what you can do with documents:

 * If you are out of class, you can check student work from any computer that has internet access.
 * Improves student writing.
 * Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text (or create documents from scratch).
 * Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to format your documents, spell-check them, etc.
 * Invite others (by e-mail address) to edit or view your documents and spreadsheets.
 * Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
 * View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
 * Publish documents online to the world, as Web pages or post documents to your blog.
 * Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip.
 * Email your documents out as attachments.

Commands that you should be aware of:
__**File Menu:**__ __**Insert Menu:**__ __**Sharing:**__
 * **//Revision History://** can see the edits and comparing revisions, can see the beginning of each edit that the person made, if you click on the revision it will bring up the document with the change.
 * **//Download File As://** you have the ability to take the document in Google and save it as a Microsoft Word, PDF, etc. file. This enables you to send it through email or to open in Word. Remember that Google Docs is a basic word processing program, Word will have more features.
 * **//Comment://** place your cursor next to the area on which you would like to comment. Select "Insert Comment" and a highlighted line will appear. Type in your comment. You can have as many comments as you like. You can also delete or add to them. The advantage to using comments is you can see who made the comment.
 * [[image:Share.png width="180" height="124" align="left"]] || * In the upper-right corner you will see the "Share" button.
 * Select "Share with Others" so that you can invite others to be collaborators to the document. ||
 * [[image:collaborators.png width="210" height="203" align="left"]] || * In the collaboration window, enter the email address for all of the people you want to invite to be collaborators. If you want to just allow them to view, then click on viewers.
 * Click on "Invite Collaborators" and it will send an email to those people telling them that they are collaborators for this document. ||

Resources:

 * **Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs****:** http://www.google.com/educators/weeklyreader.html
 * **Educators Guide: Teaching Revision with Google Docs:** [[file:WR_guide.pdf]]
 * **Step-by-Step Tutorial:** [[file:WR_cribsheet.pdf]]
 * **Google Docs Support:** [|http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=15114]
 * **Learn about the comments and revision features of Google Docs:** [[file:WR_revisingguide.pdf]]
 * **Getting Started with Google Docs:** http://edutech.msu.edu/online/GoogleDocs/GoogleDocs.html