Experiences Learned from Google Docs

Google Doc is an online document which you are allowed to use if you have gmail account. Google doc is not only a place where you store your document file but you can use google doc as a collaborative tool to share word document, excel, powerpoint with users who can be public users, or private users. Google Doc is like an online storage which we have space in sever without being charged. You can store word, excel, powerpoint, pdf, etc in google docs. From time to time we can collaborate and help each other edit/revise our papers together at the same time we can store paper after we edit to re-edit together online or even to load our research paper to share with public audience to edit or to view. Although google doc is very useful for us, it has weaknesses as follows:
1) There is no page number on google doc. So, we do not know how many pages we have
2) There is no track change so when you want to edit, you can not see original text next to new phrases/ sentences
3) There are no names assigned who write what.So, it is hard to know who write what sentences. In terms of measuring productivity, we are not sure who contributes the most. There is no tracking of productivity and efficiency.
4) There is no line number so when we chat in chat box, it is hard to communicate which line we are talking about. If there is line number, it will be more helpful when we edit.
5) There should be online face-to-face box similar to skype so that we can do conference call or vdo calling seeing each other face while we are editing.
6) I suggest that we should have mindmap to create collaborative ideas from google docs, and it will be great if we know who generates which idea so that our group or teacher can know who has done what. Easier Grading!
7) There is no project tracking or progress tracking. It will help us function more effectively if there is a tracking of what we have done, so that we can plan more effectively on working on google doc.
8) There is no place to divide tasks and subtasks. It will be great if we can have task lists next to google doc. It will help us focus on the right tasks needed to be accomplished first.
9) There are no files /images or anything to store in file to refer to. In PBworks, we can store files or images to refer to but with google docs we do not have that.
10) It is good that google doc is allowed for public share by giving URL link. It is great because people can release their news by using google doc and posting on facebook fan page instead of puting web link on fan page. Companies save costs on their web cost. Same web link can be generated by publishing google doc.
11) Google doc should be fed into blog or RSS. It will be great if Google doc can do that.
12) There is a lack of web publishing tool for google doc. Word doc can be saved and published as web page. But, google, the most it can do, is to release web link but not whole published web page.

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