On the ACCE 2009 study tour to NECC2008, I saw some primary schools in New Zeeland that were making great use of Google Docs for collaborative student projects and even the college administration to share communication with parents and school council. <br>
<br>Last month I started using Google Gears with Firefox to enable offline editing of important documents. It worked seamlessly on my Win, OSX computers and even Linux netbook computer .. making good use of it to work on our last school ICT strategic plan :-)<br>
<a href="http://gears.google.com/">http://gears.google.com/</a><br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/4 Bill Oldham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billo@kew.hotkey.net.au">billo@kew.hotkey.net.au</a>></span><br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">Is anyone considering using the Google tools that are now
available to use in all the SACs for next year except the database one?</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">This year I started with a Google account. I began with Gmail,
Gtalk, and Ggroups.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">This lead into using Blogger, Google images and Picasa.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">Then came the online versions of a word processor, spreadsheet
and web page creator programs as part of Google docs.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">Timelines were developed in a rough sense using Google Calendar
and Google docs spreadsheet <br></span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">Add to this a start of using PBwiki, YouTube and Google toolbar.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">It seems like most of ITA in 2009 could be covered using Google
tools and be completely online.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">What do you think?</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-AU">Regards, Bill Oldham (sessional teacher at Chisholm TAFE and VU)</span></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>