Google DOCs

Google Docs can be very valuable. I have had frustrating experiences with trying to figure out how to save a document in one place and download it somewhere else. Without a flash drive a document can be writeen and saved in Google and accessed from any computer any where. This is particularly helpful in our school setting. We have students who will type a document at home on a Word version newer than the school version, save it to a flash drive only to discover it will not open on the school computer. Imagine the frustration! I have typed something at school and want to edit at home and usually I will e-mail the document to myself. This is what students do sometimes but, since they are not supposed to access e-mail at school this presents a dilema for them. First they have to get permission to access e-mail then copy and paste document, etc. I am glad that this lesson was next on the list, because I learned a lot from this.
Just this week we found a lost kitty. I had a picture on my computer of the cat but no printer. My husbands computer had a printer but no picture, so instead of using e-mail, I typed the lost poster in Google, inserting the picture, and then accessed it on my husband's computer to print. It worked like a charm. The kitty is still with us, I think we will adopt him since no one claimed him.