Several months ago, Joelle asked teachers to tell us how they've been using Docs in the classroom. We received stories from professors and instructors all over the world. In today's post, I'd like to highlight three specific educators from México, Germany and Portugal:Jose I. Icaza is a professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey N.L., México. He teaches courses in Leadership for Sustainable Development."I use Docs documents to have my graduate...
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
A quick note to point you, yet again, to an exceptional use case described in the Teaching With Technology blog. In a recent post, Mr. Kirkpatrick goes through the steps of setting up parent:teacher meetings easily using Docs. Take inspiration from this idea, and as always, feel free to leave a comment and let us know how you use Docs to make things a bit easier :)Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program Mana...
Monday, 21 July 2008
Don Campbell is President of Expand2Web, and dedicates his career to helping small business owners with local store-fronts connect with customers over the web. Here, he proves his tech-savvy creativity by showing us a very fun, and seasonally-appropriate use of forms. I spend most of my time every day working with small business owners helping them with their local search strategy to get more customers from the web. But sometimes the best...
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
What do wedding planners, gas mileage calculators and photo albums have in common? They're all examples of templates available in the Google Docs Template Gallery that Sarah Beth Eisinger (Docs Templates engineer), Grant Dasher (intern), and I built and (happily!) released today.When researching how people use templates, we saw that lots of you create documents for all aspects of your lives. You need resumes and cover letters to look for jobs and...
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Posted by: Amit Agarwal, a professional technology blogger at Digital Inspiration and an exceptionally creative Docs userWe were first introduced to Amit Agarwal when he sent us a video, detailing how to use Docs as an RSS feed reader (check out the accompanying and instructive blog post, as well). We watched the video, read his blog post, and were completely impressed. So, we got in touch, and are now happy to have Amit as a guest blogger, showcasing...
Monday, 7 July 2008
Posted by: Meredith Whittaker, Program ManagerReviewing and revisingMy colleague, and one of Docs' marketing managers, Andrew Chang, emailed me the other day, thrilled to have discovered an incredibly incisive post covering a number of ways to leave feedback and organize students' writing process using Docs.I was as impressed with the post as Andrew, and we're pretty sure you'll enjoy it, too. To see for yourself, head over to Tom Barrett's ICT in my Classroom blog.The play's the thingAnother charming and wonderfully detailed post walks us through...
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Posted by: Garnet GrattonGarnet Gratton is back, and in the mood for summer. In her last post, she detailed a creative lesson plan using Docs and Mars Phoenix Lander in the news. This time, she'll be telling us about her experience using Docs forms to make scheduling extremely easy, and leave more time for summer fun. During the school year, my hiking group and I meet every six weeks or so. We hike all over Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, as...
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