Google Docs
This is a free set of Web-based applications (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and forms) that allows users to create and edit documents, as well as collaborate in real-time. You can also import files from other applications, like Microsoft Office. There are other document sharing services with similar capabilities.
Use in teaching & learning
Students can submit work and receive comments back with changes tracked. Faculty can post documents, like a syllabus, that may be updated periodically. Project groups can collaborate to produce a report. And the forms tool provides a good mechanism for conducting online surveys. Google has posted a series of YouTube videos that describe potential applications from a student point of view.
NotreDame info
Notre Dame has a contract with Google for student email. Students thereby have access to "Google Apps for Education," but Google Docs is also freely available to the public.
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