<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1543" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> >>> "Dan Young" <dyoung@mesd.k12.or.us> 12-04-08 4:17 PM >>> 2008/12/4 Travis Smith <tsmith@geneseeschools.org>: > We allow students to use google docs and some do take advantage of it. I > even put a link up on our webpage. One issue we found was with the power > point piece and it seems like the issues were related to trying to get the > The > topic has been brought up a few times at our county meetings and some of the > concerns were property rights because google now has ownership and worried > that google will use this publicly or in a negative way somehow. Google doesn't own your content when you use Google Documents: <A href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_adapts_and_modifies_content.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_adapts_and_modifies_content.php</A> I agree Dan I have no problems with Google Docs. That was an issue that was brought up by a few technology coordinators in my county per discussion about the topic in a meeting and part of their reasoning for blocking the service at their school. <DIV><HR> Scanned by GenNET AV out </DIV> </BODY></HTML>