Thing 18 - Google Docs

I chose to explore Google Docs because I already have an account and I did not have to download anything. It has the same features as Microsoft Office. If you can't afford to buy Microsoft Office, then you can easily use Google Docs. It saves your work under your account. You can also share your documents with others and they can edit them. (Kind of like a wiki.) The only thing that I did not like was that the Spanish accent keys do not work in Google Docs. My students' parents are Spanish speaking and I need to be able to apply Spanish accent keys. Since I am a teacher, I went ahead and created a Conference Request form for parents to use when they want to request a conference with me. I hope they have Internet access and will be able to use the form. The form is in Spanish and here is the link.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dENiaXR0ajRKeDdHZTJNekRBZlU4b1E6MA..

I still prefer to use Microsoft Office, but I will use Google Docs whenever I have to share documents with others.