I've been playing around with Google Docs and Open Office for a couple of days, now. I had used Google Docs for a previous "thing" and was able to upload a grade level newsletter for my blog. I am a little disappointed that you can't upload a complete PDF file--just the text seems to transfer, but no images. I see that Google is working on an updated version of Docs, and that may be something they address. Perhaps it's a copyright issue.
Open Office was much less user friendly for me. I had to download it onto my personal computer, and ran into a few issues. I do like that I can save documents into different versions. We have a new home computer that runs a newer version of Office that what I have on my SBISD laptop, so that will be a nice feature. I've been wanting to make business card-sized magnets to give my parents, and was able to create those using Open Office. Could I have done it in MSOffice, yes, but now I can share the document with the rest of my team. They can use my template and modify it to fit their information.
Think about really looking at Google Docs...thenew minis that the district will be using will use google docs...the neat thing about that is that students can access work at home.
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