Google Docs and Spreadsheets

1. Access Google, click on Sign in (upper right).

2. Create an Account Now. Use your school email because it will be revealed to students.

3. Go to email to recover the message and turn your account on. Go back to Google, Sign in. In the upper right hand corner click on My Account, then More. Google Docs and Spreadsheets is on the right.

Features
1.  To add other writers to the list of allowed editors, click on Collaborate and start adding email addresses.  Anyone who is added must have a Google account under the email address you list.  If you are using it with a class have every group add you as a member.  People can also be added as Viewers, without the ability to contribute.


2.  To keep writers' voices separate they will have to write in different colors or scripts.  The originator of the document is the owner and sets up the collaboration.  Supposedly up to 50 people can work on one document.


3.  Using the Insert tab teachers can use the Comment button to add notes that disappear when the page is published or printed.


4.  All pages can be published to the web or to a blog. ( not very nice looking)


5.  Insert tab features include - Images up to 2MB, Hyperlinks, Tables (columns), and Bookmarks.


6.  Bookmark allows you to create a table of contents and then link within your document.


7. The Revisions tab lets you take your document to back to an earlier version.