Wow! Time flies in the tech world…
Back in the “ice age” of 2007 we were dabling (well, more than dabling) with Google’s application suite, called Google Apps. For a quick refresher, quickly browse this post A Google Docs Primer.
Much, much has changed since then:
- We are now a Google Apps Education Edition participant
- Our Google Apps and Walton CSD domain have been merged: waltoncsd.org
- The Google Apps login for Walton CSD is now “branded” with our school colors and logo
- Google Apps is bringing “cloud computing” to our staff and students
If you browse to the staff web resources link on our website, you’ll find the link for logging into Google Docs (providing access to the entire G-Apps suite). The new login pa
ge incorporates the logo from above and now provides storage for any type of file (Google lifted the restrictions on file types last year).
What could this mean for you? If you spend a few minutes in Google Docs you can setup folders to organize the items that you work with all the time. Once these documents and files are in place, they are not only accessible from any computer with Internet access, but they can be edited, updated using Google Doc’s built-in word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
It’s called “cloud computing” because your work and the resources to do it are located somewhere out there in the clouds. You can share, collaborate, upload/download the items, too.
Would you like to know more? If you’re not using Google Docs, why not? Contact Tim McNerney and find out how Walton’s G-Apps implementation can work for you!
