Colaboration+-+Online+or+Offline

= Google Docs Solutions =

Collaboration for teachers who are members of a board of a TA can often be difficult.

As volunteers, you also have to juggle with a full time job and a family, so if you need to collaborate on documents you want to produce, posters, a presentation or a leaflet, you may find online collaborative tools very useful.

Google Docs is probably the best known example of online collaboration offering a choice of creating text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, surveys and much more as the screenshots above show.



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With one Google account you can do all of the things in the table below and more


 * == What you can do == || == Google Application ** n ** == ||
 * Create a free blog || Blogger ||
 * Create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, surveys, drawings || Docs ||
 * Search the Web || Google Chrome ||
 * Store and edit photos & drawings || Picassa Web Albums ||
 * Talk to anyone in the world free of charge || Talk ||
 * Find out visitor statistics for your website or blog || Analytics ||
 * Create an RSS feed for your website or blog || Feedburner ||
 * Follow your favourite blogs and websites at a glance || Reader ||
 * Create a free email account || GMail ||
 * Display your TA's location and contact information || Places ||
 * Create a free site for your association || Sites ||
 * Organise your meetings and publish your TA's activities || Calendar ||
 * Upload your videos and create a channel || You Tube ||
 * Collaborate, braistorm, hold online meetings || Wave ||
 * Spread the word about your association || Orkut ||

This is all free and you can choose which of the applications are suitable or easy for you to use. Some of these applications are also mentioned on other pages of this wiki.

Screenshot of some waves I have participated in and what they can do.

= Google is not all there is! =

There are many more online collaborative tools and places where two or more people could, for example, be editing a document in real time while talking on Skype or Talk.

To be continued... = =