4 thoughts on “Google Docs in the Classroom”

  2. J: Too many situations to list here! One was a problem where we said the students would need to use UNION to show a report with a different layout for users of a “Facebooklet” application who belonged to different numbers of groups. A student figured out that in fact a CASE statement in the SELECT list, dispatching on the COUNT(*) from the GROUP BY , would do the same job effortlessly. I hadn’t thought of that, partly because most of my programming was done on a version of Oracle that did not support CASE.

  3. I thought it was good read. It’s very inspiring too. You could probably use this Google Docs for a plethora of other subjects with colaboration from lots of great minds anywhere.

    My wish: make college free and on-line for everyone. Definately a step in the right direction here.

  4. I realize it doesn’t satisfy the requirement for real-time updates, but:

    I use latex and Subversion (or other revision control system) for course documents. I find it’s a wonderful way to coordinate among multiple instructors/teachers, if you need to write technical documents. Latex is good if you have lots of math or technical content. I regularly use it for homework assignments and homework solutions. In my classes, you have to have it done ahead of time and get it right the first time, and real-time updates are rare (and a bug), so Latex+SVN works well for that case.

    I suspect if you’re making occasional large changes to large documents, latex+Svn is better, and if you’re making frequent small changes that need to be immediately visible to students, Google docs is better.

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