Google+Docs-Apps

Collaborating with Google Docs: Individual Adult User
 * [|**Create a Google account now**]
 * Powerful Microsoft Office compatible applications suite (word processing, spreadsheet, database)
 * 100% Internet based
 * Free
 * Documents can be edited simultaneously by up to 50 (!) people at once
 * Files you can upload:
 * Documents (up to 500KB):Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf), OpenDocument Text (.odt) and StarOffice (.sxw).
 * Presentations (up to 10MB) from your computer, 2MB from the web, 500KB via email) Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps).
 * Spreadsheets (up to 1MB), Comma Separated Value (.csv),Microsoft Excel (.xls) files and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods).
 * PDF Files (up to 10MB from your computer, 2MB from the web)
 * Presentations can be given online with participants in simultaneous "chat" alongside
 * Animations and sound effects are preserved (this might be a negative for some people...)
 * Hyperlinked items are functional
 * Sharing process is as easy as sending an email and privileges can be revoked at any time
 * Revisions are kept - files cannot be deleted except by the account owner
 * [|7 Things You Should Know About Google Apps] (excellent Educause whitepaper)

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Collaborating with Google Docs: In the Classroom
 * [|Google Apps for Education]
 * Free
 * Requires Internet domain (either existing one for a school or one you purchase)
 * Extremely powerful, full administrative support
 * Free technical support
 * You determine which "apps" your students get to use

Why Google Apps for Education (didn't have time to show this)

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