Google's docs are web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application that’s offered free from Google. This program allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real time with other users. Google's doc originated from two different products, Writely and Google’s spreadsheet. Writely is a web-based word processor created by Upsartle which is a software company that launched in August of 2005. Spreadsheets was launched as Google's lab spreadsheet on June 6th, 2006, which originated by 2web technologies. Google's doc is Google’s version of an office suite. Its documents, spreadsheet, forms, and presentations can be created within the application itself. It can also be imported through the web interface, or sent via email. They also can be saved to your computer in a variety of formats like, Open office, HTML, PDF, RTF, and text word. When you open a document in Google’s doc it automatically saves to prevent any data loss, and a revision history is automatically kept. Google's doc is supported on all recent versions of Internet Explorer, Fire fox, Safari, and Chrome browser’s running on Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux operating systems. Google’s doc recently set up a limit that a user can store on their account. Documents cannot exceed 500 k, embedded images must not exceed 2mb each, and spreadsheets are limited to 256 columns, 200,000 cells, and 99 sheets. That is a total of 5,000 documents and presentations, 5,000 images, 1,000 spreadsheets, and 100 PDF’s at one time. Teachers use this program to communicate with other teachers about assignments, essay’s, or homework that they prepare for their students. I think this could be part of the connectivist theory because teachers are learning from other teachers in a network environment.
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