I am guessing the virtual class has been quiet for a while.

I am experimenting with cut+paste shortcuts for my fellow students (in counseling psychology in Canada--I am in the US).

Google docs and "office" is not a be-all to end-all, not by a longshot, but it is the only system of its type.

My feeling, from experience, is that its creative staff, I believe "Writely Inc," is so consumed by its desire to mimic Microsoft Office that it does not have resources to concentrate on the Web aspects, and often falls short of the mark.

An example being that they had to withdraw the offline/disk-only service, which I thought, as a techie, was a no-brainer to engineer and implement with the "gears" local webserver.

Test:
This is a cut and paste directly from a wikimedia page to google docs to this editor.

Brain

5 divisions from top to bottom:

• telenephalon
• diencephalon
• mesencephalon
• metencephalon
• myenlencephalon (medulla)

spinal cord is beneath myenlencephalon

From 3 sections:

• forebrain, telenephalon and diencephalon
• midbrain, mesencephalon
• hindbrain, metencephalon and myenlencephalon

myenlencephalon

• tracts for signals between brain and body
• also called medulla

rectiliniar formation

• network of 100 tiny nuclei within central core of brain stem

spans:

• posterior boundary of myelencephalon (bottom of medulla)
• anterior boundary of mesencephalon (top of midbrain)

rectiliniar activation system:

• sleep
• attention
• movement
• muscle tone maintenance
• heart beat
• circulation
• respiratory reflexes

diencephalon

thalamus and hypothalmus

thalamus

• 2 lobes joined by massa intermedia
• top of brainstem
• on top of third ventricle

• pairs of nuclei that project to cortex (most)

• sensory relay nuclei (many)
  • receive signals from sensory receptors
  • process signals
  • transmit to specific areas of sensory cortex

lateral geniculate nuclei visual sensory relay nuclei

hypothalamus

• below (hypo) thalamus
• regulation of motivated behaviors
  • regulates release of hormones from pituitary gland (attached below/front)

attached structures:

• pituitary gland
• optic chasm
  • decussate or contralateral (cross over to other side)
  • ipsilateral (staying on same side)
• mammilary bodies
  • behind pituitary

telencephalon

• largest division
• voluntary movement initiation
• interprets (processes) sensory movement
• mediates complex cognitive processes
  • learning
  • speaking
  • problem solving

cerebral cortex

also cortex

• layer of tissue
• convoluted, or furrowed
  • • increase amount of cerebral cortex from same tissue mass

convolutions:

• fissures, large furrows
• singular suclcus, small furrows
• gyri, ridges between fissures

longitudinal fissure:

• separates hemispheres
• largest fissure
• connections between hemispheres (tracts)
  • cerebral commisures
  • largest, corpus callosum
  • minimal number of tracts

lateral fissure: major horizontal fissure

four lobes divided by horizontal and latteral fissures:

• frontal
• parietal
• temporal
• occipital

major gyri:

• precentral, contain motor cortex
• postcentral, somatosensory cortex (body sensation)
• superior temporal gyri, auditory cortex

neocortex:

• 6-layered cortex
• 90% of cortex
• evolutionary recent
• numbered I through VI

two types of neurons:

pyramidal

• multipolar
• large
• apex runs to surface of cortex
• long axon

stellate

• interneurons
• star-shaped
• small with short or no axon

non-neo cortex

• fewer layers

• hippocampus
  • memory
  • medial edge of cerebral cortex
  • curves back on itself in medial temporal lobe

• cingulate cortex

limbic system

circuit of mid-line structures in brain

motivated behaviors

• fleeing
• feeding
• fighting
• sex

members:

• hippocampus
• cingulate cortex

sub-cortical

• mamillary bodies
• amygdala
• fornix
• septum

basal ganglia

• voluntary movement
• sub-cortial structures

members:

• amygdala
• caudate (circle)
• putamen (within circle, straitum with caudate)
• globus pallidus

I have a similar question: Does this allow the interactive use of Google Docs, i.e. two people working on the same document at the same time, while still within Moodle?

Also, does this allow sharing of Google spreadsheets?