[Year 12 IT Apps] RE:Google tools

[Alex Hopkins]

Hi Roland,

Could you tell us a little more about what Gears does? I'd like to know a
little more before I go ahead and instal it.

Alex Hopkins
Bayside Christian College

> 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