Week 6: Online Collaboration Tools
I was on vacation most of last week, so now am playing catch up. I took some time off to spend with my boys before they started school. Scott is now a big Kindergartener and Sean started in a Pre-Kindergarten class at the elementary school. Wow, what big boys they've become!
Now, with that first exciting week over, time to concentrate on work. I had recently read somewhere that tools like this may replace Microsoft Word and Excel (it may have been in our first weeks reading). When I read that I thought to myself, "what are they talking about that could possibly make me feel that I have no need for Word and Excel, and what could possibly replace them?"
Well, now I know! These tools are wonderful! No need to buy a program, carry around a disk , or worry about what version and is it on this computer. And what an easy way to share your document and to have others collaborate with you. This is definitely something I will start using. This reminds me of when email went web-based. It's all at your fingertips, just another great tool that you can access from anywhere!
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Good comments Risa, and that's exactly what we were able to do at our videoconference yesterday. Melissa's computer didn't work, so I used the one in the videoconference room, and brought up our blog, and the Google docs we were sharing. I didn't have to map to any shared drives; I didn't have to carry around a memory stick or CD or whatever-- because you never know what hardware is going to be available on the computer you're "borrowing."
Thanks Ann. I can't believe all these new tools and that I was unaware of them. Thanks so much for this class! It's been a huge learning experience.
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