welcome to the cloud: google docs for grad students

Welcome to the Cloud:Google Docs for Graduate Students

03/31/2012Noah Sager – Graduate Student

Department of GeographyChicago State University

Google Docs?

“Google Docs is a suite of products that lets you create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store your documents and your other files -- all online, and all for free. With an Internet connection, you can access your documents and files from any computer, anywhere in the world.”

Source: http://support.google.com/docs

Google Docs!

• Google Documents– Word, Notepad, TextEdit, OpenOffice

• Google Spreadsheets– Excel, Access, OpenOffice

• Google Presentations– PowerPoint, OpenOffice

• Google Drawings– Paint, SketchUp

• Google Forms

• Google Table (beta)

• Google Collection

Free Storage: 1,024 MB

Welcome to the Cloud:Google Docs for Graduate Students

03/31/2012John Owens– Graduate Student

Department of GeographyChicago State University

Create a Survey

CSU Aquaculture Lab

Keep a spreadsheet of lab visitors

Create a Presentation

Maps for Northwestern study

Create a Fusion Table (map)

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Cloud Security

Not all free apps are created equal

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