2.0 of Google Docs
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| What the 2.0 Are We Talking About? New Web Demos
Nov 8-10 2006 NMC Regional Conference
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Web 2.0 demo by Michael Roy, Wesleyan University / Academic Commons
[edit] Snapshot View
Under the growing Google brand of web applications, including email and /calendar, now with Google Documents, you can have a fairly full featured word processor and spreadsheet software via a web browser-- the difference form your desktop being files are accessible anywhere, and multiple editors can work on the same files.
[edit] The 2.0 Factor
- remote collaborators can work on the same files
- imports from and exports to standard file formats
- publishes directly to weblog (e.g. blogger.com)
- keeps track of versions
- RSS feeds (notification of changes via rss aggregator)
- tags for categorization
[edit] See it in Action
- Shared document for conference presentation planning, published to weblog http://cogdoghouse.blogspot.com/2006/01/beyond-blog-planning-demo-to-blogger.html
- Word document imported, edited in Google Docs (then called Writely), and republished to blog http://learntech.pbwiki.com/TryWikis#BeyondWikisCollaborativeWebWritingwithWritely
- Google Spreadsheet to track reading achievement (Tim Lauer) http://tim.lauer.name/2006/10/11/google-spreadsheets-to-track-reading-achievement/
- A first look at the Linux friendly Google Docs & Spreadsheets project http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/10/first-look-at-linux-friendly-google.html
