Links+for+Google+Docs+and+Literacy+Tools

We are going to learn some of the features of Office that can improve teaching--annotating text, commenting, more effective revision, more thoughtful presentations. examples--tracking changes, using speaker notes, generating on the fly graphs. This is going to be a whirlwind tour. How can you remember it all? Not to worry! There are video lessons for most of these topics.
 * Beyond the Basics with MS Office**

Calculating readabilityin Microsoft Word Turn all proofing tools off in MS Word Tracking Changes in MS Word Inserting electronic comments in MS Word

Etherpad for Group One Etherpad for Group Two
 * Etherpad**

General Link for Etherpad Google Docs includes a wide array of tools that could, by themselves, be the basis for a course. In fact, you can take such a course and become a Google Certified Educator. This is something I'd love to do one day! Here's a summary page that lists clever ways teachers have used Google Docs with students.
 * Google Docs**

Here's a shared document. Anyone with the link can edit it. Here's the same link.

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Commoncraft makes great videos--Google hired them to make this one about Google Docs media type="custom" key="4856849"

Wordle Etherpadis a website that allows a group to write collaboratively, with documented conversation. It's easy to tell who contributed what information and all the writing can be downloaded into an offline word processing program.