Tuesday, July 31, 2007

More wth Google Docs and Spreadsheets

In exploring the use of Google Docs and Spreadsheets, I found that if you upload a Microsoft Word document, some of the formatting may be lost. In the following examples I realized that my vocabulary quiz lost some of its spacing, and the text in my text box no longer was nicely spaced out. Also, when I used WordArt on my Social Studies Planning Sheet, it became blurred and almost unreadable.

Vocabulary Quiz
http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dc7xxz27_3hz5qt7&revision=_latest

Social Studies Planning Sheet
http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dc7xxz27_1g767d7&revision=_latest

Along with these examples, here is another link that shows some of the pros and cons of using Google Docs and Spreadsheets:
http://blog.genyes.com/index.php/2007/05/21/google-apps-ready-for-prime-time/


Here is a more thorough explanation through Google about how this can work for educators.
http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs_spreadsheets.html
http://www.infinitethinking.org/stuff/Docs.Spreadsheets.pdf

1 comment:

Sylvia said...

Hi Kristin,
Thanks for linking to my blog (the GenYES blog). You might also like another post we did on a very cool feature in Google Spreadsheets that does automatic internet searches.

Your blog colors are cute!