Google Docs

Our school has been using Google Docs for about a year. It has many advantages, one of them being that it's free, for our District. Our team has the tech teacher on it, and he has been teaching us how to use the calendar, email, and documents. When our team meets, we use a form he created in Google Docs so that, no matter where we meet, we have a form available in every room in the school. Then we take turns taking notes so that we become more familiar with it. We also have a place that houses our team notes and we don't need to have the notes emailed or have a hard paper copy, especially if we are all at the meeting. He usually sends the notes, or a notice that our team notes are available on Google Docs, which also saves the Principal time if he doesn't want to read the notes. I feel that the word processing is pretty easy and doesn't need to be more sophisticated, as it might have to be if you were writing something like a resume using Microsoft Word.
We are also using parts of the program to prepare grades and to prepare a document from a grade-level team before it goes to the parents. Internal public library work could use the program, also, to save time. Members of a committee, library directors, or trustees could create a document together that could be checked by all first, and then go out to the public. Plus, preparing newsletters would be much quicker, making all involved feel they were part of the creative process.