Apr 12 2008
Using Google Docs to post to Edublogs
I’m using this as a test to see if I can use Google docs to prepare a post and the using the ’share’ button, getting it published to my blog.
Why would this be useful - perhaps getting the students to post via Google docs could work.
This could be a great way to get your students to do a writeup for your class blog. Just have a class login for Google docs and have them all log in and create then save their posts in Google docs. Then, I think it would be advisable for you to publish them using the ’share’ menu, without lettinng the students in on this function. This way, you can do multiple and collaborative writeups - any other ideas out there?
Unable to get pictures in at the right size at the moment via Google docs, otherwise this seems to work well - I think this is a Safari-specific issue
Advantages
- easier to make multiple posts
- spellchecking built in
- can add in tables
- headers and footers
- strikeout, superscript and subscript
- collaborative aspect to posts
- ability to indent
- highlighting - this doesn’t seem to show up in Edublogs
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- editing is much much quicker
- you can probably upload a .doc file to Google docs and then edit it quickly before posting
Disadvantage
- at the moment, no way to categorise or tag posts
If anyone would like an invite to help look into this and set up some instructions, please let me know
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