It syncs Google docs you are editing with a local copy for offline editing. Don't worry, it will remove cleanly once you have had a play with it. Works inside the browser. It is part of the reason why they reworked Chrome although it works nicely enough with ye olde Firefox on my Mac, WinTel or NetBook.<br>
<br>In case anybody is curious .. here is our current (draft) college strategy plan, published by GoogleDocs. Some of you might recognise bits come from another that I spotted with another Google Docs version that was posted interstate.<br>
<a id="publishedDocumentUrl" class="tabcontent" target="_blank" href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgcn8pb9_15cm24b3ds">http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgcn8pb9_15cm24b3ds</a><br><br>All part of the way that things are heading. Every week I seem to have
yet another document online for collaborative editing. I was struck by
some NASA friends whilst in the States who swear by this work approach
every day (along with email, calendar and the reader).<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/10 Alex Hopkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.hopkins@bcc.vic.edu.au">a.hopkins@bcc.vic.edu.au</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Roland,<br>
<br>
Could you tell us a little more about what Gears does? I'd like to know a<br>
little more before I go ahead and instal it.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
Alex Hopkins<br>
Bayside Christian College<br>
<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> On the ACCE 2009 study tour to NECC2008, I saw some primary schools in New<br>
> Zeeland that were making great use of Google Docs for collaborative<br>
> student<br>
> projects and even the college administration to share communication with<br>
> parents and school council.<br>
><br>
> Last month I started using Google Gears with Firefox to enable offline<br>
> editing of important documents. It worked seamlessly on my Win, OSX<br>
> computers and even Linux netbook computer .. making good use of it to work<br>
> on our last school ICT strategic plan :-)<br>
> <a href="http://gears.google.com/" target="_blank">http://gears.google.com/</a><br>
><br>
> Regards Roland<br>
<br>
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