At the University of Westminster we have the Google docs application available to all staff and students. To locate this, look on the intranet homepage in the left hand navigation under the Applications heading.
Examples of documents you can create online are:
Documents
Minutes of meetings – these can be taken on a laptop in the meeting then posted online for corrections/feedback, which can be done collaboratively by those people with permission to access the document
To allow multiple users to contribute simultaneously to a document, such as during ideas generation sessions or as part of task and finish group
Allow students to collaborate on exercises/problem solving in real time
Learning materials/training exercises can be circulated very quickly across a team then used as the basis for lessons in PC labs, avoiding the use of paper
Presentations
These can be created and uploaded instantly with links to online resources such as Youtube/Slideshare. This is a quick way of making presentations universally available without purchasing web hosting
Spreadsheets
These are often used for project planning (RAID logs), data sharing (Library Search configuration logs) and other collaboration, especially in our teams at ISLS.
TASK
Choose one of the following:
1. Use Google docs to generate and capture ideas in a group meeting or virtually, this will allow all ideas to be collected, shared for discussion and recorded all at the same time.
2. Upload an existing presentation which is used for a workshop/training session such as Library Search/orientation and use it instead of giving it out handouts or create/adapt your own mini presentation to demonstrate something you know to be of interest/use to students. Share it with other 23 Things participants/ local colleagues as appropriate.
3. Use a Google spreadsheet to record all the tasks associated with a project you are planning to undertake. Alternatively look at some of the existing RAID logs within Google docs application
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