The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has established October 20, 2009 as the National Day on Writing. For the National Day on Writing, the NCTE is collecting thousands of writing samples to be unveiled on that day and showcased online. The Google Docs team has partnered with the NCTE to curate a gallery and we're looking for contributions from you that speak to our theme: "The Internet and its impact on our lives."Interesting in contributing? Go to the National Gallery on Writing and submit your writing piece as a published Google...
Monday, 28 September 2009
Have you ever wanted to create a form that changes which questions to show next based on an answer received earlier in the form? The two features we launched today make that easy. First, we've added one of the most requested features for forms: page breaks. Now it is easy to create a form with multiple pages by going to "Add item" and selecting "Page break."We've also added another highly requested feature, logic branching. Once you've created...
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Last year, we added PDF upload and view to Google Docs, and the "View" link for PDF attachments in Gmail. We also added support for viewing PowerPoint and TIFF files in Gmail this April. Feedback on these features has been very positive - viewing files right in your browser is fast, and it keeps your downloads folder clean. Plus, it spares you the hassle of saving your files to the machine you're using, which could be a shared or public computer.Starting today, we're opening up this technology to all webmasters and blog owners with the Google...
(Cross-posted on the Google students blog)The Google Docs team is getting ready for back to school. We've been doing our homework this summer to make your school year go a little smoother. Today we're launching a handful of features that will benefit both students and teachers. Speaking from experience, as students ourselves, we know that these features will come in handy on any given day. Check out the schedule below to see how. ...
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Guest post: Dr. Helen Barrett is a retired teacher educator, an independent researcher, and international trainer/consultant on electronic portfolios and digital storytelling in education. This year, she is writing a book about using Web 2.0 tools to create Interactive Portfolios.In schools and colleges across the world, students are developing "E-Portfolios" which include digital collections and reflections on their work, created for a wide variety of purposes. According to this website, "An e-portfolio is a learner-driven collection of digital...
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
With Google Docs, we've learned that some of our most valuable insights come from our users, and we are always excited by what you have to say. Now, with Product Ideas for Google Docs, we're opening up the floor to everyone and asking you to help decide what is most important.With Product Ideas, you can submit your feedback for everyone to see, read the thoughts other users have, and vote on the ideas you like best. We'll be checking in and responding to some of the ideas with the highest number of votes.The more feedback we get the better, so...
Monday, 14 September 2009
Last week, Ning launched a new feature that lets any Ning network add social applications. Ning Apps include a Google Docs presentation app, which means you're now able to embed a Google Docs presentation on your Ning social network. This makes it easy to add text, images, and even videos to your profile.For those of you unfamiliar with Ning, it's social network platform that lets users build their own social networks. Who might benefit from an embedded presentation on their profile? A small business owner might want to post an overview of...
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Guest post: Michelle Madhok, the founder and CEO of SheFinds Media, a New York, NY company that publishes editorial websites that help women shop online, recently used Google Docs spreadsheets to manage her site's relaunch. Here's what she told us about her experience:The five employees at SheFinds Media write, manage and promote all of the content on SheFinds.com and MomFinds.com, which keeps us pretty busy - so we outsource a lot of the tech work...
Thursday, 3 September 2009
We've just released two new improvements to the drawings in Google Docs. First, we made it easier for you to build flowcharts in drawings by adding 20 new shapes for standard flowchart components. Second, we made it possible for you to have more control over drawing text layout by supporting explicit line breaks in text boxes and text within shapes.Try out these new features by going to any document, spreadsheet, or presentation, and inserting a...
Today, we added a few new features to Google forms:Grid question typeYou can now quickly gather responses for a group of similar questions in a new, compact grid format. The new grid question type allows you to label a few columns and create as many rows as you like. Each row result appears in its own spreadsheet column, with its own summary chart, which brings us to...Improved results summary chartsWe've polished up our results...
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