Weekly Report & Reflection 7 Google Docs

Hi Bloggers wow I must say time is flying

         

        This week’s activity was pretty interesting and exciting because we got to work with people that we have never met before.  That was a new experience for me and we had to meet our partners through Todays meet and had to our group presentation using Google doc. This is a great way to doing a group presentation and getting all the ideas together.  I remember we had to do a group project and group members were not willing to meet up because they were all busy with their own schedules. It was really a struggle to follow up with everyone and to even find out, who is responsible for a specific part. We ended up getting a really bad mark on that project because of lack of communication. After discovering about Google Docs and Today meet I ‘am confident that I will not let that happen again because this allows everyone to be online and still work on the project, also we don’t necessarily need to meet up. Now days most of the people prefer to work on online rather than meeting up.

I never used Google Docs, prior to this week’s activity I had a chance to do some exploration and came to know that is useful for uploading a document, Invite other people to collaborate on a specific document, reliable for editing use, comment or view access, make necessary modification  review any previous documents, use for presentations, spreadsheets and drawings. Once all the information gets uploaded in good doc, you can simply access this information from anywhere, don’t have to worry about losing your work anymore, and because everything will be automatically saved. As usual I looked up some you tube’s videos about Google Docs and it made me understand the concept more visually.

Mary Pickering and Robert Plitt. (CC) 2013.

The most important feature which I liked, the most was that more than one person can be working on the same document. Everyone can jump in and start including each other’s information, suggesting more ideas, share their researched information, feedbacks and continue to elaborate. People are becoming comfortable working online and this way they are open to incorporating more ideas without hesitating.

In Digital Citizenship is important to understand the “Digital Rights and Responsibilities, this also falls under four sub-topics and we should also focus on that DRS Issues, DRS Inappropriate/ appreciate and DRS Keywords” ( Ribble,p. 36).

I will add this to my PLE under “Professional, Learn and Create” This can be used for professional use and explore all the capacities that it has to offer in the future. I will definitely recommend this to my friends and co-workers so that they can also benefit from this.

This week’s article is about, Iris scanning technology is coming to secure all the smartphones in the future. They making the phone to have more security and also to maintain their privacy in case of the occurrence of theft. I thought this was a great idea. Delta ID unveiled the new feature that it has to offer. This technology will literally allow you to use your eyes to unlock the password from a phone.

This was another learning experience for me since, we had a chance to work people that we don’t really know or met before. Excited for next week, because I get to improve my knowledge. Thank you for another learning experience.