Links for Lesson 6: Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Explore (e-Portfolio)
It is easy to learn a new way to create, share, publish, collaborate, and access you work anywhere. The video that follows explains more about Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Watch it a few times, stop and start it at critical points (the narration is fast!), take some notes. Try to identify two or three things about using GDS that could make studying easier for you. Please watch this video.

Do
1. (ROW) SCICU set up. Please do these things:
a) Get Google Docs & Spreadsheets (GDS)
b) Make your GDS home one of your homepage tabs in Firefox (Tools>>Options>>Main)

4. (ROW) Put your results into a table. In Docs Home, create a new spreadsheet. Make a simple spreadsheet to display your results. Label the data in your spreadsheet e.g. Stumbling blocks in collaboration, Number of responses. You might like to refer to this sample data sheet, however, be sure to use categories which relate to the responses that you have collected.

Adding value to your e-Portfolio and you!

1. If you began posting your assignments to your e-portfolio and then inviting your professors to view them there, instead of or in addition to giving them a paper copy,
what advantages/disadvantages can you see?

2. If you could start posting work and other kinds of information to your e-portfolio by email, what kinds of information might you send? What purposes could this serve for you?

-> mail-to-Blogger address

3. In what situations might you want to share your research on your e-portfolio by embedding GReader?

-> Greader embedding