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Google Drive

For Students and Teachers

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Where are you at?

1 - What’s Google Drive?

2 - Heard of it, used it a bit

3 - Pretty Confident

4 - I should be running this break out

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Why Google Drive?

  • makes collaboration easy
  • accessed anywhere, anytime
  • no lugging books around for marking
  • share easily with students, staff, etc
  • easy to use for students and teachers
  • parents can access children’s learning from home
  • can’t lose work
  • saves trees
  • way of the future

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Google Slides

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Google Sheets

Graphing is made easy in Google Sheets - no time wasting with ruling lines etc.

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Chicken Graph made by Year 4 / 5 students. Can lead to great discussions around why they picked the graph they did, what else it needs, etc.

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Google Docs

Many handy features …….

Tools

Links

Commenting

Revision History

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Planning in Drive

  • ease of being able to access anytime from any device
  • no need to use remote server or even school server
  • can’t lose it on your desk somewhere
  • easy to make changes
  • easy to share
  • saves trees

Word to Docs

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In Docs

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In Sheets

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IIn Slides

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Some Cool Extras

  • Google Photos - photos taken on any device sync straight to Drive also gives another option on blogger posts

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  • Screencastify is an extra you can add from the Chrome store Easy for teachers Easy for kids

url shortener great for QR Codes Who Am I?

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