New Comment-only Option Available for Google Sheets

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br/><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTMRE0ElBYY8YQ-t6gXGXHGBSTJ5I3rdPUA7Hb2Eglds2ihuBtCOJgZjr2f9F-ywXMzTt3n0EWXuhPFCw_m_K3yANbWakMOfivhFrDJixU7szxoaksBiDcjp-TVUcjlcMk-3vBH4jQxh4/s1600/Google_Drive_Logo_lrg-580x461.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTMRE0ElBYY8YQ-t6gXGXHGBSTJ5I3rdPUA7Hb2Eglds2ihuBtCOJgZjr2f9F-ywXMzTt3n0EWXuhPFCw_m_K3yANbWakMOfivhFrDJixU7szxoaksBiDcjp-TVUcjlcMk-3vBH4jQxh4/s200/Google_Drive_Logo_lrg-580x461.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br/>I shared this news earlier on <a href="https://plus.google.com/108609517416878916397/posts" target="_blank">Google+</a> but I think it's worth sharing here as well. Beginning today Google Sheets (spreadsheets in Google Drive) will have a comment-only sharing option. Just like Google Documents and Google Presentations the comment-only setting will allow people to view and comment on spreadsheet without actually changing anything in the spreadsheet itself. Learn how to use comments in spreadsheets in the <a href="http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=65129" target="_blank">new documentation available here from Google</a>.<br/><br/><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Applications for Education</b></span><br/>The comment-only option in Google Sheets could be a great instructional tool. You could share data sets with students and ask them to interpret the data, answer questions about the data, and ask questions about the data through the commenting tool. You can reply to students comments. And all of this happens without changing the original data. This is similar to the way that <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/02/using-google-drive-for-online.html" target="_blank">I use the comment-only option in Google Documents for group discussions of primary source documents</a>. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><i>This post originally appeared on <a href="http://freetech4teachers.com/">Free Technology for Teachers</a><br/></i>.<br/><br/>Come learn with me at the <a href="http://practicaledtech.com/2013/04/08/come-to-the-practical-ed-tech-summer-camp/">Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp</a>.<br/><br /></div><div class="feedflare"><br/><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=7Q72WNTAKBA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:I9og5sOYxJI"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=I9og5sOYxJI"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=N3hHPtdJV2k:8SoJOCcxYjU:bcOpcFrp8Mo"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo"></img></a><br/></div><img height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/freetech4teachers/cGEY/~4/N3hHPtdJV2k" width="1"/><br/><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freetech4teachers/cGEY/~3/N3hHPtdJV2k/new-comment-only-option-available-for.html" rel="nofollow">Free Technology for Teachers</a>

New Comment-only Option Available for Google Sheets

I shared this news earlier on Google+ but I think it's worth sharing here as well. Beginning today Google Sheets (spreadsheets in Googl...

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