Now I can quite easily access in-progress projects from home, even in my socks and jammies! No more "forgetting" the disk or usb drive at the library...it is all right there with the touch of a button. Is this a good thing? Will I find myself drawn to working on library projects over evenings and weekends that already speed by? I best be careful or I'll soon live up to the title of "overachiever" that was recently bestowed upon me by a colleague. I can always forget my google password for a couple of days, right?
But seriously, will Google never cease! Just when I was over marvelling how Google Calendar has taken the place of my many different paper calendars and thus helped to keep me in the right place at the right time (at least sometimes), along comes this lesson and my intro to Google Docs. I added a comment to the Project Play doc and then a slide to the slideshow. The slideshow was very slow to load but looked spiffy once it came up. Now I'm creating and sharing docs left and right. This is a great tool for multi-person projects and would lend itself well to scheduled working from home
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Love the clever headers you always come up with Jaime. Yes, Google Docs will be great for those patrons who need a word processor and can't get onto the school computers. It sounds like documents can easily be pulled up in either Microsoft Office or the various Google Docs interfaces, readily converting from one to the other.
The one thing I've seen with the document conversion is sometimes you lose the formatting when it goes from Word to Google, so something like a resume may become ugly when it's first uploaded.
But in general, I think Google Docs is the cat's meow for sharing documents with other people and getting access from anywhere!
The idea of scheduled work from home makes me all shivery!
Telecommuting or E-commuting - that's what I should have said (rather than the more shivery term that I-shall-not-mention-again)!
ha! I like the sound of E-commuting. I retrieved this from sloganizer: Be young, have fun, taste E-commute. (I am sure it is delicious.)
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