I have had ooodles of fun using GoogleDocs to develop and share my work. For me the collaboration features alone outweigh any loss in functionality. Given this is report writing time, here is a fun way use it to do your assessment online. :-)<br>
<br> <a href="http://rpollack.net/2008/09/self-grading-multiple-choice-tests-with-google-docs/">http://rpollack.net/2008/09/self-grading-multiple-choice-tests-with-google-docs/</a><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
I don’t have much love for multiple-choice tests — either for administering them or for taking them — but as a teacher, the format was sometimes required by my administration, and was sometimes useful for simple prove-that-you-read-it quizzes. Google Docs didn’t help me love them, but it did help me never grade them. Here’s how:<br>
</blockquote><br>I was interested to note that whilst it supports export to doc, docx, odt, ppt formats, GoogleDocs natively uses the open document format to archive work. Kind of what I have been already doing for the past couple of years. Whilst GoogleDocs put the work into a format converter (it isnt perfect but works most of the time) .. It is really disappointing to watch Microsoft is drag its feet to build in an open document converter when all the other Office packages implemented this last year.<br>
<br>Moodle 2.0 is due for release over January 2010 and will have much
better integration with things like GoogleDocs. I am looking forward to
the sessions about this at the coming <a href="http://www.vitta.org.au/">http://www.vitta.org.au</a> and <a href="http://www.acec2010.info/">http://www.ACEC2010.info</a> conferences. Don't forget to keep your eyes out on any workshops we might be running in 2010. Catch you online :-)<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br>--<br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>