Google Docs Vs. Wikis

Google Docs are something with which I have a little bit of experience, but clearly not enough.  I believe that they should be easy, but Google docs have confused me in the past.  I know how to get to them, but I can never seem to figure out the use.  However, wikis made sense to me immediately.

Now, with that being said, I can see the great benefit of the school improvement plan being placed in Google docs and shared with the entire school.  This plan is share with us once a year, maybe twice, and we are supposed to be implementing it?  I think providing access to the staff would be a good manner to enact the plan.  I could see how curriculum documents could be shared the same way.  In fact, I noticed this past year that once I accessed my curriculum documents, they automatically ended up in my Google docs.  This made finding them easier than searching for the secondary mathematics site.

While I find Google docs a beneficial "storage" place for important documents that makes retrieval easy from anywhere, I do not quite see myself using this with my students in classroom applications.  I like wikis for that.  I am more comfortable and confident with my ability to implement this technology.  However, since the entire staff has Google docs and our data coach has used these in the past to share information, I could see Google docs being an important tool for sharing documents with my colleagues.