Practical Use for Google Docs and trying new technology

This weekend while working on a project in another course my teammates and I had to figure out how we were going to share our written portions of the project and work in collaboration. The first idea was to email one another our documents and make up dates via email. After discussing this option we reviewed the idea of using Googledocs to post all of our written documents and then sharing them with one another. Some of the group met the idea with hesitation and negativity and thought that it would not work. Others decided to go ahead and learn a new technology. The group decided to go ahead and try the new technology and decide if we wanted to continue using it for the duration of the project. At the last group meeting we all decided that we loved using Googledocs as a tool for writing our project collaboratively. While researching for my webliography I also found a few other document sharing ideas on the internet. Some of these included Workzone http://www.trichys.com/document-sharing/document-sharing.vm, 4shared.com http://www.4shared.com/share_document.jsp, and Netit http://www.net-it.com/Document-Sharing.htm. So the next time you are in a group and thinking about how to work on a report or paper collaboratively don't be hesitant to try and use some of the technology we have been learning about in our courses. Although, I don't blame my fellow group members for being hesitant I am sure they were worried about having to learn a new technology while also working to meet a deadline. Yet, googledocs and some of these other document sharing sites are so easy to use this will not be an issue!