SHARE YOUR DOCUMENTS ONLINE WITH DOCSTOC

Teachers can share their class notes or essential educational material with other teachers or their students in various ways. I found some teachers still using the email method. Cut, copy and paste can be done away with, if you utilize docstoc or scribd to store your documents online and access it from anywhere. And these include presentations. You have the choice to make your files private or public and you can give the option to download or to embed or to share with others via email and Facebook. You can upload a variety of files and let them be stored online. With docstoc, you can even track how many times your documents have been downloaded or viewed as well.
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GOOGLE DOCS FOR USE IN EDUCATION

Google Docs is an answer to every teacher and student working on a collaborative project or individually. All you need is a gmail account and anyone can create or upload files,edit and publish or share with whomever they want. Students and teachers are already familiar with the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Google has all these and more for you to work with @ Google Documents, and best part is that it can be shared with people you choose, to edit online in real time and it is FREE. You do not need to save any of these files on your computer as they are stored online,on Google's secure servers, which means you can do away with your pen drive and access your files from anywhere with an internet connection.
In addition to the word processor, spreadsheets and presentations, one can also create forms and drawings. Imagine working on a collaborative drawing.
Once finished, you can even embed your file onto your class blog for others to find it.
Advantages of using Google docs are many,compared to Openoffice.org and Microsoft Office. But now, Microsoft has come out with an answer to this by introducing the Microsoft Cloud. But Google Docs remain the popular choice in the classroom.
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GOOGLE APPS IN EDUCATION

Innovative Educators are constantly looking for ways to use technology in classrooms around the world. Students are enjoying the fun ways of learning with the use of gadgets and online applications, and of course social networking sites.
Google Apps has on offer an Education edition for those educational institutions wanting to have their own intranet facility in addition. Any school or college can sign on for their own customary logo and use these apps among students, teachers, across subjects, classes, clubs, etc. Google Apps Education Edition offers a suite of useful applications as a cloud computing solution. Users can log on , share and collaborate in real time from anywhere in the world using a PC or an internet enabled mobile phone.

Google Apps Education Edition hosts a suite of collaboration and communication applications.

The Collaboration Apps include
Google Docs where you can share spreadsheets, word documents and presentations.
Google Sites where you can have personal, institutional or team websites searchable on Google.
Google Video Education version that gives users secure video sharing within your domain.

The Communication Apps include
Google Calender,
Gmail, and
Google Talk.
The best thing about this Google Apps Education Edition is that is FREE for all users.
You even get to host your own domain name,eg.,user@school.edu
And there is absolutely no advertising.
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SUPER IDEAS FOR TEACHERS TO USE GOOGLE DOCS

Google Docs are used effectively to create,share and publish forms,spreadsheets,presentations and word documents. Pdf's can be uploaded but not published as of now.Educators find this extremely useful to collaborate their students projects who can submit and be graded online.Teachers can also collaborate on a topic or discuss grades with fellow staff using the share and chat feature.
Creating forms to be filled or to give special instructions for a project,or to even create a special assignment just got easier.You can choose multiple checked answers or add paragraph answers,before you share via email or embedding on your blog.Very convenient and useful tools.Book reviews and rating them,conducting student surveys,tracking missing assignments,data collection gathering group feedback just got easier.
Examples for some more interesting ideas for teachers.
Check out videos of the GoogleDocsCommunity on youtube for exciting ways to use Google Docs.
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HOW TO CREATE AN ONLINE GRADE BOOK FOR FREE

Teachers need to grade their students and it is certainly easier if you learn to use spreadsheets.Google docs can be utilized to create a word document,a presentation,a PDF file or a spreadsheet.Educators find that it is convenient to store online and share with colleagues or students.Their work becomes simpler now with Google Docs than having to share as an attachment or uploading files.It is automated and of course,it is yours for FREE.
Having a grade book for every class is important and so,here is an article by Chuck on hubpages which I think every teacher can use.He shows you how to create and automate a grade book using the spreadsheet feature on Google docs with relevant pictures so it is easy to understand.

HOW TO GENERATE MATH EQUATIONS FOR GOOGLE DOCS

Teachers will love this handy tool,one that will allow you to generate formulas and equations with ease.It is called the Visual Equation Editor. Maths,Chemistry and Physics documents can now be made with the right formulas easily by any tutor.Works with Google Docs. For more on generating math equations,look up this Knol and follow the links.

Generating the right equations or formulas are definitely necessary for any teacher who uses online methods and tools for elearning, or to share in the classroom.The student understands faster and retains in memory a lot better.

HOW TO SEND HINDI OR KANNADA ASSIGNMENTS TO YOUR TEACHER ONLINE

Homework and essays written in the book used to be submitted for correction by the teacher.It is common knowledge that most assignments today are submitted online.Sometimes the student has to work in his/her group to complete a project.And of course,a deadline has to be met.When the language being used is English,there is no problem.But,when the chosen language happens to be an Indian language such as Kannada/Hindi/Telugu/Malayalam/Tamil,what does the student do?

Many of my students are in a dilemma when such a situation occurs.If you try to"copy and paste" the vernacular language onto a Word document or onto an email client,it does not copy.Many are frustrated by this attempt,because only the pictures selected get copied.

The best solution is to use the Google Indic Transliteration tool to write what you want in the language of your choice,and then,select all,copy and paste into new document on Google Docs,save it and share it with friends.You may invite your friends as collaborators so as to enable them to also edit the document online while on Chat in realtime and submit it to your teacher for approval.You can make your online project/assignment fetch you more marks by simply adding some relevant pictures or even an educational video from youtube or teachertube.Google Docs has these advantages and scores over a Microsoft Word document.

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