Video Tutorials on Using Google Docs

Submitted by cel4145 on May 4, 2008 - 11:20.

Starting tomorrow, I'm teaching an online writing class over our 6 week spring term. As the final project in the course, students will complete a team-based paper assignment. Given that the class is online, Google Docs seems a very effective tool for students. Rather than having to create instructions myself for using Google Docs, I was lucky enough to find this extensive set of video tutorials over at ExpertVillage, How to Use Google Documents. This will be a great resource for use in my face-to-face classes as well.

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Submitted by jtirrell on May 4, 2008 - 13:12.

We use the three components of Google docs (document, spreadsheet, presentation) in my Multimedia Writing class. The spreadsheet component provides a really useful way to create Gantt charts for project management, particularly when working in groups. I've compiled some tutorials—including video tutorials—from the web that my students use:

http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp08/tirrell1/gantt_charts

(Obviously we're using Google Docs in concert with Drupal!)

- J. Tirrell
http://www.jtirrell.com

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Gantt charts

Submitted by cel4145 on May 5, 2008 - 22:34.

Thanks for the links. I hadn't thought about how to use Google Docs to create Gantt charts, but it makes complete sense now that you have posted about it. I had been toying with using .dotproject as a project management system for students to experiment with, but at the same time, I was thinking that we ought to be able to leverage Google Docs and Google Calendar to accomplish much of the same thing at a basic level.

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