Google Documents as Teaching Tools

Google documents is a great teaching tool for sudents and teachers. Google has many different advantages. I truly believe that once you reach High School, you are definately going to need microsoft office, but while in elementary school, you will probably not use the computer too often. If you are not going to use it very much, why would you buy Microsoft office, which is expensive and will most likely be out of date by the time they need it, then you would have to buy it a newer version. Google Documents, on the other hand, are absolutely free, all you need is a gmail account. Google documents doesn't have all the features of Microsoft office, but it has the basic functions that are necessary for what you need to do. Also, Google documents is web based, which means that it is saved on the google website instead of your computer, so if your computer crashes your work will still be there with google docs, where as it may or may not be if you are using Microsoft office. Finally, my favorite function, is the autosave function. Google docs automatically saves your work for you, unlike microsoft office. With googles autosave function, if you forget to save the information and your interent dies, all work up to the last time it saved will be there, but with microsoft office, you have to manually save your information every so often or it will be completely gone if something happens. Google docs also has all the same things as Microsoft office, such as, word processor, powerpoint, spreadsheet, etc.. Google docs is just a wonderful tool, and really, who doesn't like free stuff?