I agree with Mark, less eye candy means more concentrating on the content. I am equally surprised how well my groups took to using the chat function to swap links and dictate who is working on what section of the presentation. Another side benefit is that nobody pleads "XYZ has the USB key with the file and is away sick"<br>
<br>A GoogleDocs update has improved the update speed. Happens much faster now although if a group is well organised, they just split the task up between themselves. We did the same when we used this to build virtual websites.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 May 2010 13:27, Michael Ha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michaelha@gmail.com">michaelha@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>And the great thing about Google Doc is that it allows real time collaboration between users.</div>
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<div>Used it in my Year 9 class when I got students to create a presentation in groups. Students can chat and edit their presentation at the same time via Google Doc, although there was a bit of a lag between someone editing something and for it to appear on other group member's screen. (10 seconds in some instances!) It seems to be working much better now since the lastest upgrade about 2 weeks ago.</div>
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<div>The thing I like about it is it reduces the problem of students having different versions of their presentation on various medias (USB, emails, etc) and trying to find the right one or collaborating it right before their presentation!!</div>
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<div>A good place to get started is:</div>
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<div><a href="http://docs.google.com/support/" target="_blank">http://docs.google.com/support/</a></div>
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