After this week experience I made my decision

When my principal asked to write him our opinion about switching to google docs and spreadsheet in our school district, I thought it would be a little hard to choose a side, but after using my google docs and spreadsheet this week, I decided that it would be to risky to make the switch. My point is that sometimes (and it is not rarely) the site is not working properly and it makes our work more time consuming, once you have to redo the project many times to try to make it work (this was exactly what happened to me this week). I’m sure google docs and spreadsheets are a great tool that we can use in the process of completing a group assignment, because everyone in the group can enter their findings and share it with the teacher. However, I wouldn’t just save the final project in google docs or spreadsheet, because if something goes wrong with the site and you can’t access it you are in trouble. Another thing is that both google docs and mainly google spreadsheet are very simple programs, missing a lot of cool features that are present in office word or excel. The charts in google spreadsheet are not so elaborated and many of the changes one can do in excel, they don’t work in google. I know that google docs and spreadsheet is free, but as people say: the result will be as good as what you can afford, so being free you can’t expect to have very nice and elaborated projects done with them. So, for me, google docs and spreadsheet is great to be used to share your project with people while doing it, but definitely I would use office word and excel for my final projects. Time and effort are pricey for me, I wouldn’t want to pay that price.