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Technology Tips: Create a Google Document Online

Google Documents is an amazing free service from Google which lets you create documents or spreadsheets online. You can access your files from any computer. You can invite others to view your files, and you can also give permission to others to edit the file, so that you can do a group project together, collaborate on a spreadsheet, etc. There are also great import and export features, email features, and so on.

For this Technology Tip, you will create a simple document and then you will publish the document on the web.

To complete this Technology Tip, you need to have created a Google account. So, that means you either need a Gmail account, or you need to have done the Customized Google Homepage assignment.

Step 1 - Log in: Go to docs.google.com. Log in with your Google account information.

Step 2 - Create document: Click on New and then select Document.

Step 3 - Edit document: Type something, like "Hello world" (anything you want to type is fine). As you can see, you have the same basic formatting options as you would find in any word processor.

Step 4 - Save document: Click File - Save, and then click File - Rename, and give the document this name: Technology Tip.

Step 5 - Publish: Click the Publish tab (the blue tab with white letters)

Then, click on the silver Publish button. Next, you will see the URL (webpage address) of the published document. Copy and paste this URL into an email and send that to the instructor, laura-gibbs@ou.edu. For the Subject Line, use Myth-Folklore Google Docs, Indian Epics Google Docs or World Lit Google Docs, depending on which class you are in.

When you have sent in the email, you can do the Gradebook Declaration for Extra Credit.