[Year 12 IT Apps] RE:Google tools

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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.

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 :-)
      http://gears.google.com/

Regards Roland

2008/11/4 Bill Oldham <billo at kew.hotkey.net.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?
>
> This year I started with a Google account. I began with Gmail, Gtalk, and
> Ggroups.
>
> This lead into using Blogger, Google images and Picasa.
>
> Then came the online versions of a word processor, spreadsheet and web page
> creator programs as part of Google docs.
>
> Timelines were developed in a rough sense using Google Calendar and Google
> docs spreadsheet
>
> Add to this a start of using PBwiki, YouTube and Google toolbar.
>
> It seems like most of ITA in 2009 could be covered using Google tools and
> be completely online.
>
>
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
> Regards, Bill Oldham (sessional teacher at Chisholm TAFE and VU)
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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