welcome to the cloud: google docs for grad students
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Copy of my presentation to Chicago State University, 21st Century Initiative about the use of Google Docs in the Spring of 2012.TRANSCRIPT
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
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