Pretty cool tool! Google docs is very similar to a wiki. The possibilities are pretty much the same in a sense that everyone can edit without a ton of email bogging down your system. All that you invite is in on the editing process so it's much easier to get the end result. I created a document titled Google docs. I typed it up and tried posting it directly to my blog, that didn't happen. I'm not sure exactly where it went.
Google docs definitely is a good backup that students can use for saving documents instead of trying to email and then not be able to open it up. It also gets lost in translation when using email. I don't think it would ever completely replace usb thumb drives because if the internet is down you wouldn't be able to retrieve the document you need to edit. I think. Anyway, open source applications are definitely something I would use personally and recommend for students as well because of the cost and reliability.
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Your post and mine are floating in cyber space together! Myra what's happening to our posts?
Oooh, good point on the accesibility to your document if the server goes down, I hadn't contemplated that one. How did you get your document to show up in your blog?
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