Which do you prefer?
Both tools are similar as they both offer documents, presentations, spreadsheets, personal storage, email, file sharing and messaging and communication tools.
Personally I find both tools to be good and use like to use a combination. For independent work I prefer Office tools such as Word and Powerpoint because of familiarity and that I have been using these tools much longer as a student.
As for doing tasks that involve collaboration I prefer using Google docs to work with peers on assignments.
Through my experiences I have found working with others was so easy when using Google docs and how your work automatically saves online. As a teacher with my students I probably will encourage them to incorporate using both tools in a similar fashion.
Recently I have been enjoying Google drive because of the endless apps that you can add to your account. I have found some interesting tools such as WeVideo that is super easy to use for editing videos that I might not have with office tools. There are many different apps that can be added to your Google drive and I can see my students benefiting from customizing which apps they like to use as tools.
Check out this video that gives a great breakdown of Office 365 and Google Apps.
Thanks Ahmed. I've always been a Google Apps fan, but recently as our district has begun using Office 365, I find that I am using more of those tools. One in particular is OneNote (which I really really love).
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