In the last year or so, I’ve read increasingly about faculty either trying or implementing Google Docs as an alternative to MS. Last month, Google added a bibliography tool and English faculty will be glad to see that it includes MLA, as well as APA, AMA, and Chicago. So here’s another reason to give GDocs the ol’ college try.
Sometimes faculty or student groups just need to do super-quick, on-the-spot polls (e.g., should we write about this topic or that?). Yet many conventional LMS systems require faculty or users to click through a cumbersome series of options and approvals in order to do this, and for students, it’s equally difficult if not impossible. Reading Lifehacker’s short post on Google’s Moderator tool got me thinking a little bit about this, and by way of association, how newcomer Wiggio, the collaboration tool geared primarily towards students, makes it quite easy.