Using SlideShare & Google Docs Presentation

At today's MILP meeting we learned how to use SlideShare and I created my first Google Docs presentation. Coincidentally, it happens to be on Google Docs:

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Google Docs Across the Curriculum? Thing #11 Revisited

Lately I've been thinking that we might serve our students well if we included Google Docs instruction across the curriculum somehow. I'm planning on proposing this idea to our English Department first to get some feedback, and if they agree, then figure out the best way to teach every student how to use Google Docs. Why? Every day I have students coming to me with floppies or flash drives that won't open on our computers. They unknowingly used Works instead of Word at home to word process and our school computers have been ghosted without the conversion software, or at home kids have the latest Word version which our school computers don't recognize, or the floppy is old and useless, or the computers won't open the flash drive. Novell is a great way for kids to work on projects and save them when they are at school, but it doesn't solve the home-to-school issue. Google Docs would. The first step would be how to get at every student. I could do it through the Information Literacy homeroom lessons I do with 9th graders, but 20 minutes isn't really enough time to help every student set up a Google account and show them how to use Google docs. English would be a good spot, but English gets hit with so many reach-every-student initiatives already. Maybe I could train the staff during opening week next fall, or maybe the Tech Integration program next year could train the 20 or so participants. I'll have to think about this.
(Google docs logo above taken from Google Images: http://larryhendrick.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/google-docs-logo.jpg)