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Unit 3 - Increasing efficiency and time saving (6 lessons)

Key Questions

  • How Google Drive can be used for your own cloud storage
    • saves just about anything that is digital 
    • can open most of these files too 
    • can be accessed anywhere in the world - you just have to have access to a computer / Google account
    • new for me? 
      •  G Suite for Education accounts have unlimited storage space 
  • How to upload documents to Google Drive
    • supports drag and drop of files into the folder (thus super easy to load files) 
  • How to create documents within Google Drive
  • Tips for organizing your Google Drive
    • my suggestions
      • pay careful attention to file naming / versions 
        • this may not seem like a big deal at first, but as time progresses you may be surprised to see how quickly you begin build up a sizable inventory of docs 
        • by using a standard file naming convention you will find it saves you time when you need to quickly find a document 
          • for SQU related docs - it's quite common for me to label every file or folder according to the course number  + the original date it was made + version number 
            • LANC 2058 - 
            • 191017 (19 October 2017) 
            • v 3
  • How to collaborate / share using Google Docs
    •  all of your Google docs are saved in Google drive 
      • once there, they can be easily shared - see this link
    • sharing can occur in more than one way
        • click the Share button in the upper right-hand part of the screen (when the document is open)
        • right-click on the file in Google Drive, then select Share
        • under the FILE menu select "Share"
      • Anyone you share your documents with become a ‘collaborator.’
  • Tips for using the Google Docs suite in your classroom
    • how to control student searching on the net while doing an online quiz
      • set time limit
        • Some teachers spend a lot of time and energy making sure their students do not go online to get their answers while taking a quiz. One way to avoid this is to allow them to go online! Let them use any resource they need but give them a short time limit (maybe 3 minutes total for the quiz we used in this lesson). This will teach them to know their stuff and/or know how to find answers quickly and efficiently.
  • How Classroom works with Docs and Drive
    • work offline with Google drive
      • https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2374987 

More on Google forms 

    • great tool 
      • I am finding myself using it more and more 
        • use it to collect and analyze data
          • 1 minute essay 
            • before a lesson (check to see how much they know already
            • after a lesson (check to see how much they now know as a result of the lesson) 
        • invite students to use it to realize the same
        • mail merge 
          • functionality is impressive (requires an "add on")
    • great sites for learning more about Google forms 

Google doc - addons

  • my suggestions
    • Speech recognition
      • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speech-recognition-soundw/idmniglhlcjfkhncgbiiecmianekpheh?utm_source=permalink
    • 9 Popular Addons
      • http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/06/9-google-docs-add-ons-teachers-should.html

Other links to check

  • 7 Google Drive Tips
    • interesting find - OCR (optical character recognition) is built into Google drive  



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  1. UnknownOctober 18, 2017 at 7:14 PM

    These are indeed time saving tools. I will start wit google docs and explored it deeper and wider.Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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