Google Docs is a Google application which allows users to create documents (word processing, presentations, and spreadsheets). I've used Google Docs a lot in the past--it is useful when you're working on a document from many different computers to begin it on Google Docs. For example, our database and resource exploration assignments for my reference class were all done on Google Docs, and I would work on them from home, at school, and at work. I would work on them when I had a few minutes and was trying to finish them up over the semester. I have also used Google Docs for similar things throughout my college career. Documents can then be downloaded to your computer to Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
Google Docs is also great for collaboration. In one of my introductory classes at SLIS, we had to do group projects with a set of ten collaborative exercises, and we would meet to split up which parts of the assignment we did, we would set up Google Docs and all put together our parts of the assignment without having to meet in person. This is especially helpful if people in your group are commuter students or have families.
Have you used Google Docs? How have you used it? If you're a librarian, how have you used Google Docs in your library career?
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