Activity 9: Online Collaboration Tools

This week we’re exploring Online Collaboration Tools like Google Docs and Zoho. This assignment is due on Tuesday, November 17.

• View the video “Google Docs in Plain English” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA)
• Take the Google Docs tour (http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html)
• Read the Web page, “Google Docs for Students” (http://www.google.com/google-d-s/college/#utm_campaign=docsb2s&utm_source=en-na-us-studentblog-docsb2s&utm_medium=blog)
• Read some of the posts on the Google Docs blog (http://googledocs.blogspot.com/)
• Read the Wikipedia entry on Google Docs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs)
• Try Google Docs (http://docs.google.com/?pli=1#)

Post in your blog:

1. Label this post Activity 9: Online Collaboration Tools
2. What is one main advantage of using an online collaboration tool such as Google Docs?
3. If you've used Google Docs or a similar tool before, for what purpose did you use it and what did you like about it?
4. How do you think you could use these tools for projects (for school, work, or fun)?