Friday, April 1, 2011

Google Docs for notes

Whitson GordonUse Google Docs for Powerful, Collaborative School Note TakingCollege students are probably already familiar with Google Docs' collaborative tools for projects, but weblog HackCollege shows us how great it can be for simple note taking during class, too.
It's so simple, yet so genius, that I'm shocked I didn't see any of this when I was in college. Lots of people will get together and compare notes to create massive study guides, but since Google Docs lets you collaborate in real time, why not just take the notes together in the first place? With a few different people working on the same set of notes, you can get a lot more written down than you could by yourself (especially if you have a fast-talking professor). The key, they say, is giving everyone a job:

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