Creating

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Sharing and Publishing:
Before you exit any Google doc you create, you should SHARE the document. This will enable you to allow people to see your document whether they sign in or not, and contribute to your document if you allow it. Take a look at these screen shots of your options.

**Documents:**
With Google Docs you and your students can upload any word document in order to collaborate, edit and share. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use Google docs. Click here for a sample of the editing abilities of Google docs.

**Presentatations:**
Presentations is Google's answer to power point. If you know basic power point, you can create, collaborate, edit and share presentations.

**Spreadsheets:**
Spreadsheets is Google's form of Excel. You can use spreadsheets to create and share self-grading quizzes, collect original data, or sort data. Anything you would do in Excel, can be done in spreadsheets.

**Forms:**
Forms are a simple way to collect various information from a group of people using only one document. So instead of waiting for a boatload of email to come in on one document and sifting through and condensing all the information that does come in...Google forms shares a form that each person can use to import the data into one document. Take a minute and complete this sample form. Pay attention to the different types of questions that a form can hold. Click here to build your own form now. The spreadsheet answers are a great way to gather formative assessment or discuss ideas.

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