Google Docs as a Teaching-Learning Tool:

Google docs is a tool that can be used very conveniently by various users. It is like a separate google account which looks after your mails and other data extremely well. I used this tool for a few assignments and I felt it was the most convenient mode for communicating with various people for work purposes.

What makes it the best and the most comfortable tool to be used, is its various features. It segregates your assignments and data; date wise. You can put your data under various folders. For example, If you tag one of your data under the name of “assignment”, a Box with the name “assignment” will appear next to that document.

It also allows you to customize the appearance of the folder name.

The most convenient facility provided by this tool is that you have the facility to share you power point presentations, excel sheets and word documents. You can easily publish them for the rest of members to view it. If you add your colleagues or other members as collaborators, they can also view the same presentation, spreadsheet or word document. It helps you work on the same stuff from different places.

The excel sheet also provides you with the facility to chat with your collaborators, hence making discussion easy and worthwhile. There is a separate icon for excel sheet, PowerPoint and word documents provided, therefore making the documents easily identifiable. Important documents can be ticked with a star next to it.

The chat and the document sharing facility made it very easy for me to coordinate with my group members to complete the work assigned. Below given are the steps that need to be followed to enter into Google Docs.

We all are use to the interface of G mail. Once we sign in with our gmail ids, there is an option of “more” on the top left hand side corner of the interface. Once that option is clicked, we can click on the “even more” option. There will be several tools or features listed, that are provided by google. There will be an icon of Docs and Spreadsheets. A click on it will lead you to your google docs inbox. It is simple to use and very convenient.

I found it very simple to use yet very systematic and thought of sharing it with others.

Below is the image of what a google docs inbox looks like: