My friends life has gotten better! How you may ask? Let me set up the 2 scenarios for you.

Scenario 1

You have been up all night writing a term paper that is due the next day in class. Your printer broke so you are relying on the schools computer lab printer. At 3am you save the paper to your flash drive and you go to sleep. The next day you are at school in the computer lab ready to print your paper. Only one problem, YOU LEFT YOUR FLASH DRIVE AT HOME! You have to run home, which is 5 miles away and you are on your bike, and look for the flash drive and realize that you put it in the pair of pants you were wearing last night. You then realize that your pants are now in the washing machine because your mom had stopped by that morning at your apartment to take pity on you and do your laundry for you. Your flash drive is now useless for you until you dry it out, even if it works then. You go to class and tell the teacher what happened and then you get a lecture on “being responsible” for your actions and you get a D in the class for not being able to turn in the term paper.

Scenario 2

You have been up all night writing a term paper that is due the next day in class. Your printer broke so you are relying on the schools computer lab printer. At 3am you save the paper and use OffiSync to back up the paper to your Google Documents account. The next day you get to the computer lab log onto your Google Documents account and print out your paper. Your teacher is amazed with how well written it is and gives you the best complement you have received all semester. The hot chick in the class over hears this compliment and comes up to you later and asks for your number! You then go home to find that your Mom had stopped by your apartment and has done your laundry for you!

Ok I realize that those scenarios may be a little far fetched, but in all seriousness OffiSync is such a great utility to save all the work that you do in Microsoft Office (i.e Word, Excel, etc.) to your Google Documents account.

If you are not to familiar with Google Documents take a second to watch the video below:

To lean more about OffiSync view the video below:

Therefor What

To get started with a Google Document account Click Here.

To download OffiSync Click Here.

To not reinvent the wheel, HowToGeek.com has a wonderful tutorial on how to use OffiSync. To view the tutorial Click Here.

If you have any questions, comments or trouble please contact me!

I am mad for google doc’s!

I hadn’t heard of google doc’s until this step in 23 things. I am very excited in the possibilities this offer’s me personally. Changing job’s recently has seen to me being guilty of emailing myself numerous documents which are updates to documents that are already saved on my home computer. Sharing google doc’s will save me from having to do that and will keep them safer – in case my home laptop goes missing.

I can see as well how it would be useful in the work place for editing library publications and sharing online. Its a shame you can’t register your acu email and use it through that. Or can you?

Today In Class

Today, students had their Winter Diagnostic for FCAT, Mr. Falvo and I hope that you all did well. Students received a new document to helped with their DBQs call SOAPSTone. This will help them analyze the documents for the national exam in May. They also received their first set of documents for their first DBQ on Ancient Rome. If you did not finish analyzing these documents, they are due next class.

Notes From Your T.A.

Students, if you have not yet done so, please email me at APWorldHistory2009@gmail.com for lecture notes and other documents, such as the vocabulary words for the Post Classical Era (600-1450).

Homework:

Students, you will have a quiz next class on the lecture notes from Google documents. You will need to finish the DBQs for next class. Also, please be aware that a vocabulary test is coming soon.

If you any any questions, please email me at APWorldHistory2009@gmail.com

Google Docs es uno de los servicios de Google que, junto a Gmail y Google Reader, es el más utilizado por los cibernautas. Es cierto que al trabajar todo el tiempo con gente de otros lugares de España es uno de los motivos por los que yo personalmente lo uso y tengo clarísimo que le faltan muchas cosas para ser un servicio perfecto. Pero Dave Girouard, el responsable de la división corporativa de Google reveló que para el próximo año Docs tendrá al menos 50 actualizaciones que harán que las empresas puedan prescindir de Microsoft Office.

Docs alcanzará una capacidad el próximo año que permitirá a la mayoría de empresas deshacerse de Office si así lo desean. (Declaró Girouard)

Considero que grandes empresas terminarán pasándose a Docs no sólo por sus beneficios, sino también por el gran ahorro que esto significará.

¿Microsoft tiembla? Considerando que Microsoft Office es uno de sus productos más importantes y que más ganancias le da a la empresa, sí, se podría decir que Microsoft comience a temblar.

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GLE: 1d tracing etymology

GLE: 2c Identify and explain story elements, including the revelation of character through dialect, dialogue, dramatic monologues, soliloquies

1. Copy word of the day on vocabulary card sheet (You Do)
2. SSR-respond in reading log, use response stems (We read, Ms B gives topic and You write in journals)
3. Journal-respond in 1 or more paragraphs to the following: “When the going gets tough the tough get going.” Class discussion
4. VSA-Narrative elements
5. Read aloud/Mini-lesson focusing on narrative (story) elements; complete story map/plot diagram – focus on characterization
6. paired reading: Thank You , M’am – complete characterization chart
7. Exit slip: Draw and list the five basic parts of a plot sequence

Simon Lewis is a great Irish educator and this very practical post explores how he is using Google Docs across his school. I particularly like the way he uses the tools to meet real needs by fashioning them in very innovative ways.

Since its inception in 1990, Microsoft Office has quickly been the dominant force in office applications and document building. Need to build a presentation? There’s PowerPoint. Looking to create complex spreadsheets? Excel is still the gold standard. And with the power of Windows to help push the desktop software, its presence only grew.

Over the last few years though, the web has begun to change this dynamic. Collaboration has become more important in business. At the same time, web applications have become more and more able to match the power and features of their desktop counterparts. In the document space, Google Docs has carried the banner for web-based document building.

Now Google claims that Docs will be a viable alternative to Office by next year. At the same time, Office 2010 boasts web-based versions of its popular software. With the two giants locked in battle, we wanted to get your take on things. We asked you to vote on which doc-building tool you prefer…

…and while it may not come as a surprise, Microsoft Office came out on top. But surprisingly the match was a close fight all the way to the end. Microsoft Office only secured a slim majority of the vote, 51% or 1365 votes. Google Docs registered 37% of the tally with its 994 votes. Finally, 12% of you (315 votes) said it was a tie and both were good tools.

We expected Office to win this one, but from the votes and the reader comments, it seems that the winds of change have begun to blow. Whether Office 2010’s web integration will be enough to fend off Google’s attempts to challenge Microsoft, we’ll just have to wait and see.

Be sure to tune in next week for the next edition of our Web Faceoff series! Below are the full results of the last eight weeks:

Google is predicting that its online office suite, Google Docs, will soon give people the option to “get rid of” Microsoft Office. With Google Docs in a less than robust state, that pronouncement sounds more like vendor bravado than prophecy.

Google’s entire premise is based on vaporware: It is promising to update Google Docs within the next year so that it will meet “the vast majority’s needs,” Dave Girouard, president of Google’s enterprise division told ZDNet Asia in an interview published on Friday.

Google is planning “thirty to fifty” updates that will make Docs more capable and on par with Google Mail and Calendar, Girouard said. He believes that businesses do not use Google Docs because it has not reached the same level of maturity as those products.

If Microsoft made a similar pronouncement, it would have been immediately dismissed as peddling vaporware. Even if Google gets it right, there is no guarantee that enterprises will make the switch for a multitude of reasons.

I believe that Girouard is overreaching with his marketing message. Organizations have standardized on Word, and have processes built around it. Switching would require training, and replacing software that is built around it.

Issues such as electronic discovery and staying compliant with privacy laws also come to mind. Who will own the data, and where will it reside? Will developers be content with the APIs that Google provides, and will they extend its functionality to be more business-friendly? Microsoft is years ahead building out the Office ecosystem.

Moreover, there are very good free and open source alternatives to Word that exist today–not at some nebulous date next year. Yet, Office still remains dominant, and Microsoft is also not resting on its laurels: Office 2010 beta 2 includes some Web services, and it has hosting partners.

Girouard made another point that begs more thoughtful analysis. “…I don’t think Office will entirely disappear, Instead, Microsoft’s offering will become a specialized offering for office workers who need its additional functions, akin to Adobe Photoshop, which is targeted at skilled workers,” he told ZDNet.

Presently, most Google’s products are aimed at consumers. I am not familiar with any large enterprises that run them aside from universities that have cut deals with Google to administer their Web mail. Students have little influence over the purchase, and any complaints likely go unheeded. Businesses don’t play that way.

The time may come when most businesses do turn to Web services for productivity software. Salesforce.com has proven that mission-critical business applications can be run remotely reliably. However, the big shift will not happen next year, and Microsoft will be a part of it.

A useful summary from Tim Anderson of the differing strategies of Microsoft and Google in the email/document space. If I knew the winner, I’d place my bet in the stock market… but the collaborative power of Google Apps and the functional maturity of MS Office mean that both are compelling and neither is likely to beat out the other for some years.

Microsoft is pursuing its “software plus services” strategy, which means desktop applications still play an important role. The email is Exchange-based, so you can use other email clients, but only Outlook on Windows will deliver full features. Document collaboration is based primarily on cloud storage rather then editing, though when Office Web Apps appear next year users will have some lightweight editing tools.

Google on the other hand is primarily web based, with desktop support as an add-on. Google has the lead when it comes to online document editing, since it has had Google Docs for some time, whereas Office Web Apps are still in beta. Google has no bias towards Windows and Office. With Google, a document’s primary existence is in the cloud, although you can export and import with possible loss of data or formatting.

Something else I noticed is that Google has big plans for integration with mobile devices, whereas Microsoft seems mainly concerned with Exchange synchronisation.

Microsoft’s pitch is that if you live in Windows anyway, with Exchange and SharePoint on the server, and Windows and Office on the client, then its cloud service integrates nicely. Google on the other hand is more revolutionary, not caring about what you run as long as you can connect to its services.

Although the software plus services idea has attractions, it sounds more like a transitional strategy than one for the long term. Over time, as the web platform gets more powerful, and as rich internet applications take over from pure desktop applications, the services part will grow absolutely dominant.

Back in March I wrote about a few security issues with Google Docs while keeping some details private.

Google Security and the Google Docs product management team engaged me immediately after the issues became public, and kept me well informed of their findings through several days of productive exchange of ideas. I’m used to getting the silent treatment when reporting security issues, so I’d like to credit Google for keeping the lines of communications open.

I had been “on the road” since then and decided to take time off from blogging.  Now that I’m back home, I’d like to close these issues before writing about a few other (non-Google) security & privacy concerns I have in mind.

So without further delay let’s revisit the three Docs issues based on my emails with Google back in late March and early April.  I understand that Google have made changes to remediate part or all of these issues, according to their own risk determination.

1. No protection for embedded images

This issue was about the lack of protection (authentication) for images embedded in a document, and an image’s continued existence on Google’s servers after its containing document has been deleted.  The lack of authentication means that the image URL could be accessed by 3rd parties without the document’s owner consent.

Google correctly noted that the image URL would have been known only to those with previous access to the image, and someone with such access could have saved the image anyway, and perhaps disclosed the saved image with unauthorized persons.

However, from a privacy perspective, there is a crucial difference between a “saved” image being disclosed, and one being served directly by Google Docs: evidence of ownership.

Let’s examine how a typical Docs image URL is constructed:

docs.google.com/File?id=dtfqs27_1f3vfmkcz_b   (an image stored at Google)

The bolded portion of the URL (“dtfqs27”) seems to uniquely identify the resource owner (in this case, me).  Documents and images created by the same account will have this same ID as part of the URL.

Embedding “personally linkable” IDs in URLs is poor practice and has wide-ranging privacy implications on on its own — more on this later.  Yet we’re going twice further here by: 1) associating the ID with a document resource; and 2) making the entire URL publicly accessible.  This is a form of Insecure Direct Object Reference, a common security issue which I’ll have to say more about in the coming days.

Contrived scenario:

I share a picture of my company’s ultra-secret new tablet with a potential supplier.   An employee of said supplier saves the picture and wants to sell it to AdeInsider.com, a rumor-site tracking my inventions.   They accuse the employee of just making it all up in Photoshop.  So the employee shares the link instead, e.g.:

docs.google.com/File?id=dtfqs27_4ghppz9dq_b

Since there is no authentication, AdeInsider.com can now widely publish that link, and point out to their readers that the image on my blog has the same unique identifier, thus positively determining ownership. Instant privacy breach.  (Instead of a secret gadget, imagine compromising pictures, etc.)  My only recourse is to get Google support to remove the image, since I can’t immediately do it myself by deleting the containing document.  But any action on my part would have been too late, anyway.

As I noted in a previous post, I can only recommend defense-in-depth.   In this case the lack of authentication — which appears benign by itself due to randomness in the URL — might cause a serious privacy breach due to another issue (leak of what is essentially personally identifying information.)

Tangent:

Tagging resources with IDs potentially linked to personal information is unfortunately a widespread practice, with Facebook being a big example.  Like Google Docs, images uploaded to Facebook are tagged with the user’s ID, are accessible without authentication, and subject to the same privacy flaw.  It’s trivial to map Facebook IDs to real names.  From a privacy perspective, ID tagging might in some cases be more problematic than tracking cookies.

2. File revision flashback

I’m not going to add much more to this issue except to note that privacy breaches can occur due to designed behavior having non-intuitive implications to regular users — the old Microsoft Fast Save feature comes to mind, as well as a number of accidental disclosures involving PDF.  The fact that someone can fiddle with an embedded image’s URL (normally buried in HTML) to get previous revisions is not obvious to your typical Docs user.

Google has added useful entries in their Help files and there are now explicit controls in the diagram tool.

3. I’ll help myself to your Docs, thanks

I reported that in some cases, a person removed from a shared document could add himself back to a document’s shared list without the owner’s permission or knowledge.  This issue obviously garnered the most attention and as it turned out, was much more complex than I originally thought.

Google clarified that this behavior is proper when a document has the “invitations may be used by anyone” option enabled.  The purpose of this option is to allow forwarding of invitations (e.g., for mailing lists), and essentially works by making the document public.

After Google’s clarification, I checked through my test documents, and sure enough, this option was enabled on them, explaining the behavior.  There was only one problem:  I had explicitly disabled this option when creating my test documents, yet somehow these documents became publicly accessible!

After additional analysis at the time, my findings indicated that:

- A race condition existed due to the way the document sharing control GUI was implemented.  Most of the time, the Docs sharing control worked fine.  However, in some cases the control could fail in three distinct ways: a) the “invitations may be used by anyone” option visibly re-enabled itself after being disabled, immediately prior to the user clicking “submit”; b) the option remained disabled on screen, but was incorrectly submitted as enabled; c) the GUI completely failed and became non-responsive (which is actually fine since that’s fail-secure.)

I was able to record screencasts of each failure type and submitted them for Google’s review.

- Compounding the issue, a different GUI problem could hide the fact that a deleted “sharee” has added himself back to a document.

In Google Docs there are several areas where a document’s sharing status can be seen, including from the main screen’s “folder view”, from the left-nav of the main screen, and from a document’s sharing dialog.  When a sharee deleted a document (breaking the share) then immediately added himself back, the main folder view and left-nav will show that the document is no longer being shared when in fact it still is.

So weaknesses in the Google Docs user interface implementation could cause private documents invitations to be wrongly permissioned as public, and furthermore, deleted share participants could add him/herself back to documents without  document’s owner noticing.

What are essentially simple UI flaws (which arguably should have been caught by developers and/or QA) now have security and privacy implications.   This “escalation” is an inherent risk with collaborative applications, especially “cloud” applications which have world-shareable features.

I must state, the likelihood of a direct breach due to wrong permissioning is low.  However, as Issue #1 demonstrated, even seemingly minor flaws could lead to privacy leaks.  Indeed, documents incorrectly permissioned in this way are subject to the same evidence of ownership leak as the images in Issue #1.

From what I could tell, Google quickly implemented changes to fix part if not all of these issues.  I have no visibility regarding how many documents were incorrectly marked public.  Readers with highly sensitive documents should periodically review their sharing controls.

Today

House Keeping Information

1. In 2nd Period today – mid term grades were passed out.
2. Students filled out their Scan-trons for their Take Home Assessment (THA) from previous  class. Collected  “THA”.
3. I uploaded 3 Lectures onto Google Docs to let students print off  for class.

A . Lecture-Roman Empire…most classes have already finished  this lecture
B . Lecture -Roman Culture “Science, Technology and the Arts”
C .”New” Lecture – Overview Of Classical Empires  (Big Picture)

Today in Class

Today we look at Document Based Questions. Document Based Questions (DBQ’s) make up 1/3 of the essays that will be part of the AP World History National Exam. We will look at DBQ’s over the next couple of days.

Edline Grade Symbols

In a previous blog entry, I incorrectly gave the grade equivalents for student work. I accidentally used the grade equivalents from my previous honors classes. Since all my classes this year are AP, these are the new percentages  for AP work.  The letters have the following meanings:

R = Redo, 80% Once the work is complete they will receive 95%  for their grade
L = Late,80 %
I = Incomplete, 60% – If there is an “I” on your assignment, you have until next class to complete it.
M = Missing, 50%  -  This grade will be changed to a zero if the work is not turned in within two week of the posting on Edline.

Students, on edline, if you have questions, please write to us at apworldhistory2009@gmail.com

Here is a another in the series of Common Craft’s short youtube videos that explain key technologies. Now that BCC students have Google email “gmail,” it might be time to get familiar with the full range of google tools:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA

When people are in the job hunting process, we at ProTrain True North tell them to make sure to list their computer skills.  This way, prospective employers know that you meet the job qualifications quickly.

When reviewing resumes I see a lot of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, QuickBooks, and even the occasional Lotus or WordPerfect.  But something I heard on a CNET podcast shocked me and has shown me that one group of applications is sorely missing from this list on every resume:  GoogleDocs

A study from the market research firm IDC said that 19% of companies widely use Google Docs in the workplace.  Wow, 19%!  1 in every 5 companies use a software package that is not anywhere on any resume I have EVER seen in the past three years.  Everyone from laborers to professional level job seekers lacked this computer skill set on their resume.

Q: Why do I need Google Docs when I know Microsoft Word?

There are two very good reasons:

A1:  Because 1 out of 5 companies use it.

A2:  Because 1 out of 5 companies use it.

To slightly alter a quote from Kryten on the TV show Red dwarf, “I realize that, technically speaking, that’s only one” answer, “but I thought it was such a big one it was worth mentioning twice.”

OK, there is a minor third reason.

A3:  Because Google Docs is not a replacement for Microsoft Word.  Google Docs is something you use in addition to Microsoft Word.  The biggest thing going for Google Docs is that it is collaborative.  It helps with productivity of groups or projects.

Communication and work flow is always a huge issue for companies. If a company you want to work for does not use Google Docs, you can impress them with a proposed solution of collaboration with a single one of your software skills.

If Google Docs is not on your resume, here is your action plan:

1)      Go to the website and see what it can do.  But be aware that the video is VERY cheesy.  http://docs.google.com

2)      Google (or Bing / Yahoo) what you can find out about it and how others are using it.

3)      Sign up for Google Docs. And play with it.

4)      Put it on your resume. Just knowing the software does not help.  You need to put it on your resume.

5)      Get someone else to sign up too and share documents.  (Collaborating with yourself is like playing chess with yourself.  It is possible, but not as fun.)

6)      Check out YouTube and other online tutorials.  Or sign up for a class.

7)      Figure out how you can apply it to your next job and how you could have used it with your previous job.

With a 1 in 5 chance of applying to a company that uses Google Docs, I suggest you play the odds.  And it is likely that other job seekers won’t.

Extra Information:

CNET podcast (Buzz Out Loud #1065)

The ICD story originates from InfoWorld.  “IDC surveyed 262 people, a significant number of whom are senior managers at various-sized businesses,…”

Even if IDC is off by fifty percent for some reason, 1 out of every 10 businesses using Google Docs is still huge.  My recommendation would still stand.

Ja oft verflucht man doch das anstrengende Studentenleben. Viel lernen, viel leisten, keine Bezahlung und am Ende bekommt man noch einen Arschtritt in seinen Allerwertesten.

Doch supergeil und megalaunig wird es, wenn man in einer abgefahrenen 4er Gruppe inkl. einem Mitbürger aus dem T-Punkt nimmt und eine Aufgabe online bearbeiten muss.

Am besten noch gleichzeitig, alle reden durcheinander, Google Docs und Team Viewer.

Selten habe ich so gelacht und von NORD und irgendwelchen Peitschen fangen wir wohl besser erst gar nicht an!

Gute Nacht ohne Creme.

You never thought of that,… or maybe you’re scared of that. What does google know about you? You can say that there are at least 2 types of info google picks up about us: the information we tell him/give him, and the information we don’t, but it is our behaviour online.

What do we tell google about ourselves?

• A good way to tell google about yourself is your google profile, that is: contact info, about you, the blogs you write, websites you work for, any links related to you, where you have been on the earth, the sidewiki, your picassa albums picture flow, etc.
• Google dashboard – google picks up from online the services you use and centralizes them, allowing you to change your personal data in these accounts: the blogger account, calendar, the contacts, google docs, gmail, iGoogle, orkut, picasa, the profile, google reader, google talk, google voice, google voice, and your web history – your history/items in these services.
• whatever you put online about yourself and is searchable, starting from a website, a blog, twitter, a profile page, a network, a forum, etc. Or what the others say about you.

What we don’t tell google about ourselves, but he knows/picks up/learns about us

• our web searches and web history, our preferences – if or even if not we’re logged into our google account. He records this and then personalizes your results according to what you last time visited – he “learns” you….
• your emails tell google what kind of adds to display, depending on the words you have in the emails; the same with the google chat: google picks the words/people you talk to/about the most…. your preferences…
• your google docs tell google about you, your preferences, your collaboration, your friends, your trends, and it offers you an unlimited space where you can put your docs online;
• if in the States, your google voice – the transcribed conversations, google taps into them…. – not harmfully, “do no evil” being their motto;
• all the google services you use, whether on the desktop or online, tell google a little about yourself. You may not know that much about your preferences, but google learns from you, adapts, serves you what you want…. Maybe you use google docs, gmail, google calendar, google desktop(nice, useful, customizable, gadgets), igoogle, google chat, youtube, picasa, google notebook, google maps, google earth, the google search engine + various versions of it, google checkout, google analytics, google trends, google toolbar, etc(a list can be here).

Uhm… these articles are supposed to be short…. yet this one is interesting: google offers more and more free products, “free versions of the existing commercial products/softwares in the market“, and we gladly use them(they are free, they are online, you just need… a browser! By us using them, giving feedback, or even without it, google learns of our behavior, our personality, preferences, etc… Guess what: even if we don’t use the google products/services, by indexing the web, google finds you/about you wherever you are! Even on facebook, even with your secret profile, he finds you in your friends’ friends list! Same on twitter. So why not be open about it all and create your profile, “feed” google with the information you think is relevant about you…

Should we be scared about that? I honestly don’t know. What I know is that it is getting more intense – addictive – interesting. With google wave, with the other startups that have such cool features that we use & then google buys them,… I don’t know….

There have been a number of cool advances in my gym routine over the past year, and they all revolve around the iPhone.

The iPhone itself is an incredible gym tool on its own, because it comes with a built-in iPod, stopwatch, and basic timer.

Add in the awesome power of the App Store and the plethora of gym-specific Apps that you can install, most of which are free, and you have yerself a very powerful tool to make your workouts more efficient and intelligent.

In fact, I have a few ideas for an iPhone gym/workout application that I need to start working on. It would be tailored to the way I like to work in the gym, but if you use any of the techniques I’ll talk about on this blog, it’ll work for you too.

But I digress. What I want to focus on here is the ability of the iPhone (and select other smartphones) to access and edit Google Spreadsheets, part of the Google Documents suite of webapps. This is a relatively recent development and not too many people know about it, but it dramatically increases the power of the iPhone as your workout’s data center.

I plan and track my workouts using Google Spreadsheets. You can take a look at my own, personal workout planner here. The breakthrough here is when you use the iPhone to actively edit and notate your workouts – I often update it after each individual set.

For someone like me who tends to forget my rep count by the time I get to the water fountain, this is a godsend.

Try it on your own smartphone and tell me this isn’t a killer new way to plan and track your workouts.

originally posted Jul 10, 2009 11:01 AM‎‎

בגוגל דוק יש אפשרות לראות את הגרסאות הקודמות של המסמך.
זוהי אפשרות מעולה שחסרה מאוד בוורד 2007 (כפי שכתבתי בפוסט לאן נעלמה עבודה עם גרסאות של אותו מסמך בוורד 2007)

כאשר “מאבדים” חומר שערכנו אותו אפשר בהחלט להשתמש בגרסאות הקודמות בוורד בגוגל

על מנת לצפות בגרסאות קודמות של מסמך בגוגל דוק Google Docs

1. להיכנס לממשק העבודה של גוגל דוק
2. להיכנס למסמך שאנחנו רוצים
3. ללכת לקובץ
4. ללכת ל see revision history
5. לבחור את המהדורה שרוצים (לשים לב שבצד המהדורה יש אפשרות “ללכת למספר מהדורות ביחד” כמו כן יש לשים לב שהמהדורה האחרונה אפשר ללכת ממנה למהדורות הקודמות)

חזרה לעבודה עם גוגל דוק

Fuente: barrapunto

Si a mediados de septiembre teníamos las primeras noticias de la iniciativa de Google DataLiberation.org, hoy nos encontramos con un importante paso adelante de esta iniciativa: ya es posible exportar nuestros documentos alojados en Google Docs. El procedimiento no puede ser más sencillo y se completa en tres pasos: conversión, compresión y descarga. He realizado varias pruebas y el sistema es realmente cómodo. En cuanto a la conversión de formatos, salvo algún problema menor en las hojas de cálculo con el alto de las filas, es francamente buena. Con esta nueva opción de exportación se consigue ya una bidireccionalidad completa: puedes crear un documento con tu aplicación favorita, cargarlo en Google Docs, compartirlo con tus amigos y compañeros y luego exportarlo de nuevo en el formato que más te convenga. Pero lo más importante es que te da la libertad de poder recuperar tus documentos cargados en Google Doc cuando quieras. Más información en Liberando Google Docs: convierte, comprime y descarga.

This ICT tip could be best applied to the following subjects:

Quick overview: EhterPad allows multiple students to work simultaneously on one word processing document over the Internet.  As each student types, their edits appear INSTANTLY in the EtherPad document. To help a group keep track who is typing what, each student’s edits are represented by a unique text color.

How does it work: In many ways, EtherPad (www.etherpad.com) is similar to Google Docs which I’ve highlighted in an earlier ICT Blog posting. In a nutshell, both EtherPad and Google Docs allow multiple people to edit a single document at the same time over the Internet.

How is Etherpad different from Google Docs? When multiple people are working in Google Docs, it takes about five to fifteen seconds for any edits to appear. Edits in EtherPad are instant. Google Docs does NOT indicate which person is typing, so things can get confusing with multiple students working in a document at the same time. Lastly, Google Docs requires each user to sign-up and create an account to edit documents, EtherPad does NOT.  The benefit of not having to sign-up for an account is that you can start right away and do not have to worry about lost student passwords and logins.

How can it be used in the classroom: As it only takes a few seconds to start a new Public EtherPad document, this website could be used as a quick and dirty class brainstorming tool. For example, students could divide up and write down common ideas in one single Etherpad document.  Classmates could then refine their own ideas and even those of their classmates. Each student works on a different computer but everyone works in the same document.

How to collaborate: To collaborate on an EtherPad document with other classmates, students can log into the site with a guest account and start working.  They can then share a unique weblink that is automatically associated with each Etherpad document, called an “invite” link.  This link can be copy and pasted into an e-mail or even scribbled down on a piece of paper. However, be careful! The link is case sensitive which means your students need to make sure that they pay attention to all the capital and small letters when writing down the link to share with other classmates.

Bon, ça fait déjà quelques temps que je suis sur Google Wave alors il me faudrait commencer à parler de mon expérience. J’ai pris pas mal de notes et j’ai remarqué des tas de choses. Mais vaut mieux commencer par quelques petits points…

J’écrivais une réponse à une amie sur Facebook dont les amis tentaient d’en savoir plus à propos de Wave. Et ça m’a donné l’occasion de mettre quelques idées en place.

Wave est un drôle de système. Comme Twitter lors des premières utilisations, c’est difficile de se faire une idée. Surtout que c’est une version très préliminaire, pleine de bogues.

Jusqu’à maintenant, voici les ressources que j’ai trouvé utiles:
http://lifehacker.com/5376138/google-wave-101
http://danieltenner.com/posts/0012-google-wave.html

(Oui, en anglais. Je traduirai pas, à moins qu’il y ait de la demande.)

Le guide suivant risque en effet d’être le plus complet. Je l’ai pas encore lu…
http://completewaveguide.com/

Sinon, version relativement courte…
Wave est un outil de communication basé sur la notion que les participants à l’événement de communication (la discussion, dions) ont accès à un contenu centralisé. Donc, plutôt que d’échanger des courriels, on construit une “wave” qui peut contenir des tas de choses. On pense surtout au texte mais le contenu est très flexible.
Quelques forces…
- On passe du temps réel au mode asynchrone. Donc, on peut commencer une conversation comme si c’était un échange de courriels puis se faire une séance de clavardage dans le même contenu et retourner au mode courriel plus tard. Très utile et exactement le genre de truc dont plusieurs ont besoin, s’ils échangent des idées à propos de contenus.
- Comme Wiki, SubEthaEdit ou même Google Docs, c’est de l’écriture collaborative. Donc, on peut facilement construire du contenu avec plusieurs autres personnes. Le système permet un suivi plus facile que sur un Wiki ou avec Google Docs.
- La gestion des accès est incroyablement facile. En ce moment, on ne peut pas retirer quelqu’un qu’on a ajouté à une “wave”, mais c’est vraiment très facile de spécifier qui on veut ajouter comme participants à une “wave” ou même à une plus petite section. Donc, on peut conserver certaines choses plus privées et d’autres presque publiques. Ça semble simple, mais c’est assez important, comme changement. On peut créer des listes ad hoc comme si on décidait soudainement de faire équipe.
- C’est une architecture ouverte, avec la possibilité de créer des outils pour transformer les contenus ou pour ajouter d’autres choses (cartes, contenus interactifs, sondages…). Du genre widgets, mais ça va plus loin. Et ça motive le monde des développeurs. L’idée, c’est que le système permet d’être étendu de façon inattendue.
- C’est si nouveau et relativement limité dans le nombre d’utilisateurs qu’on en est à une phase où tout le monde essaie d’expérimenter et accepte de répondre à toute question.

- Il n’y a pour l’instant pas de pourriel.

Bon, c’est déjà pas si court…

Si vous avez des questions, faites-moi signe. Si vous êtes déjà sur Wave, je suis enkerli et informalethnographer (dans les deux cas, c’est @googlewave.com).

Dear Parents

After talking with some parents, and dealing with some confusion about the Chapter Questions, I thought I would share some information about them and my exceptions for your child’s work.

- All Chapter questions are assigned on the first day of the week.

- They are also located at Google Docs and the ofalvo.com website if they want to get started earlier.

- Students have one week to complete the assignments.

- Students should use the first four days of the week to complete this assignment leaving their weekends free. I have stressed the importance of doing this work Monday through Thursday to establish a regular discipline that will carry them throughout the year.  The weekend should be used to simply  edit and manage the work already done. (That is if we lived in a perfect world)

-Forty-five minutes to an hour a day (Monday through Thursday) should be enough time to complete the work for the chapter questions.

- Students should find a group to work in and use Google docs as their online place to store and work on their data.

- When students start a new Google document, they should invite Shea and me to edit it so we can help them throughout the week.

-  They are to put their answers in bullet statement form. Writing sentences only allows them to avoid answering some parts of the questions, plus this  forces them to factually address all parts of the question.

-Remember, when using Bullet Statements:
* Be concise: Fewer words make a larger impact. Prepare your prose down to fewer than three sentences if you can.
* Keep to the point: A general rule is “one point, one bullet.” don’t try to cram more than one idea into each bullet item.
* Be clear: Clear and simple is best.
* Use them only when they bring clarity to your content.

- All the Chapter question assignments are due the first day of the week.

- Quality and thoroughness are essential to this activity and students will be graded on these expectations.

Edline Grade Symbols

In a previous blog entry, I incorrectly gave the grade equivalents for student work. I accidentally used the grade equivalents from my previous honors classes. Since all my classes this year are AP, these are the new percentages  for AP work.  The letters have the following meanings:

R = Redo, 80% Once the work is complete they will receive 95%  for their grade
L = Late,80 %
I = Incomplete, 60% – If there is an “I” on your assignment, you have until next class to complete it.
M = Missing, 50%  -  This grade will be changed to a zero if the work is not turned in within two week of the posting on Edline.

Students, on edline, if you have questions, please ask Shea.

Today In Class

Today, students received their take home exam and worked on a group chart, as well as took notes on the end of the Roman Empire.

Homework: The Take Home Exam is due next class. If you do not have the exam at the start of the period, you will lose 10% of the overall grade (1 letter grade) every day, not every block.

Notes from Your T.A.

Students, there are still a few of you who have not asked for an invite to Google Docs. It is crucial that you simply send me an email asking to be a part of Google Docs. Shortly, Mr. Falvo and I will start posting items and documents not available in class. If you are having problems accessing the internet, or do not have internet, please come see me or Mr. Falvo and we will work something out. You are only hurting yourself by not being apart of Google docs.

Google Docs functionality in your favorite Office suite. Do we need this or is Google Docs enough?

DocVerse Puts Google Docs-Like Collaboration Inside Microsoft Office

November 6th, 2009 | by Ben Parr

 

Name: DocVerse

Quick Pitch: DocVerse brings the collaboration functionality of products like Google Docs to the 600 million users of Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Genius Idea: Collaboration is a key to success in any business, especially when you have a scattered team that needs to work on documents constantly. There are already a lot of options, including Google Docs (Google Docs), Adobe Acrobat (Adobe Acrobat.com), and even Microsoft Office 2010 to some extent. But having full, Google Docs-like collaboration in Microsoft Office would be nice.

This is the gap that DocVerse is trying to fill. It’s a plug-in for Microsoft Office that adds this type of functionality to a new sidebar within Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, and Word.