Google Docs 101

Learning Google Apps – Your first few days

Using Gmail at School

In any web browser, go to: http://mail.fairhavenps.net

Then enter your user name and password. (The first time you log in, you’ll be asked to take a moment to set up your account.)

Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processing, presentations and spreadsheets program.

Unlike desktop software, Google Docs lets people create web-based documents, presentations and spreadsheets that anyone in the group can update from his/her own computer, even at the same time.

Instead of emailing around files and having to deal with the confusion and extra work involved in managing different file versions and manually aggregating input from others, anyone in the group can edit the document online from anywhere — all you need is a Web browser.

And, since your docs are all stored safely in Google’s servers, you don’t have to worry about losing data from a hard drive crash or nasty virus.

Google Apps Overview

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Creating documents, presentation, spreadsheets & forms in Google Docs (a part of Google Drive).

Google Docs is an online word processor that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here’s what you can do with Google Docs:

Upload a Word document and convert it to a Google document
Add flair and formatting to your documents by adjusting margins, spacing, fonts, and colors — all that fun stuff
Invite other people to collaborate on a document with you, giving them edit, comment or view access
Collaborate online in real time and chat with other collaborators — right from inside the document
View your document’s revision history and roll back to any previous version
Download a Google document to your desktop as a Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip file
Translate a document to a different language
Email your documents to other people as attachments

To learn more about Google Docs, check out the Google Docs getting started guide.

Google Slides is an online presentations app that allows you to show off your work in a visual way. Here’s what you can do with Google Slides:

Create and edit presentations
Edit a presentation with friends or coworkers, and share it with others effortlessly
Import .pptx and .pps files and convert them to Google presentations
Download your presentations as a PDF, a PPT, or a .txt file
Insert images and videos into your presentation
Publish and embed your presentations in a website

For more information about Google presentations, check out the Google Slides getting started guide

Create a Presentation on Using Google Docs

One partner will create a new presentation and name it “both last names Pres101″ and save it in your Google101 collection (folder). This should be shared with your partner and the instructor.
Work with your partner synchronously or asynchronous and create a presentation on how you might use Google Docs in your teaching. Be creative and experiment with the different tools. Add these different elements in the presentation: formatted text, images, video, a hyperlink, and a shape.
Publish your presentation.

Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet app that lets you create and format spreadsheets and simultaneously work with other people. Here’s what you can do with Google Sheets:

Import and convert Excel, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data to a Google spreadsheet
Export Excel, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data, as well as PDF and HTML files
Use formula editing to perform calculations on your data, and use formatting make it look the way you’d like
Chat in real time with others who are editing your spreadsheet
Create charts with your data
Embed a spreadsheet — or individual sheets of your spreadsheet — on your blog or website

For more information about Google spreadsheets, check out the Google Sheets getting started guide.