Obviously, the sharing of documents and techniques using Google Apps is a valuable tool. Users can access the site when they need it, edit the document to add utility and effectiveness and share results with other users.
For educators, sharing and editing of documents opens the door to increased collaboration.
I see applications with group projects and forms - in Geometry, I do one major group project per semester. Google Apps will let me assign students to groups without considering geography (many of our students do not live near each other), but rather abilities.
I can see applications for group homework (doing proofs) or even individual work. I am wondering how to manage such things (I have 112 Geometry students and 46 more in other classes).
Catholic Central has assigned gmail accounts to all students and we are set up for using the Apps.
I also see some downsides - the system kicked me out at least 10 times on different computers (I am running them side by side) with similar error messages. I had to finagle the downloading of my template and had trouble downloading all templates.
I have sent a collaborative document to a colleague and am awaiting a response.
The resulting document is shown below:
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