Collaborating on Google Docs
Hello everyone! Patricia Horan brought this new feature of Google Docs to our group's attention. I think it's fairly new, so I wanted to post it so that we could all benefit from it. It looks to be a lot like the Track Changes feature in Microsoft Word. I'm really glad you don't just automatically overwrite and therefore completely lose previous versions of the document anymore.
Hope this is helpful!
Hope this is helpful!
Labels: Google Docs
posted by Laura at
10:00 AM
2 Comments:
Thank you so much for posting the new feature in GOogle Docs because answers the question I posted on the Discussion Board :)!
Thoughts on the necessary "evil" of collaboration.
I find that collaboration, (for someone as myself who has rarely been given "group" assignments in undergrad) has been a blessing in disguise.
Google Docs is a great tool that helps to share ideas and put things down when hectic schedules do not allow "analog" meetings in person. Yet it comes with a set of challenges that even a company like Google cannot solve through applications to its system.
I find doing things as a group can present many challenges: organization, reliability, trust. It has shown me that working together is tough work and in turn allowed me to be more focused on getting better at what is a necessary function of the publishing industry.
However, learning the Google Docs system for a technologically unsavvy person as myself has been pleasent overall, even if the process of transitioning from a do-it-yourself english major who forms her own opinions and has developed a love for her own procrastination methods into someone who can communicate effectively and collaborate together with my peers has been painful at best.
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