Google Drive is the tech tool I use most often as a teacher. My Chrome has two tabs that open when started -- Gmail and Google Drive. Originally Drive was Google Docs, they renamed it Drive to convey its full feature set, such as online "cloud" storage. Almost every document I have is stored on Google Drive, it makes it easy to access from home or school. Also storing material on Drive makes it much easier to share with students on my website or in email. Google Drive makes my job easier.
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| I store material for every unit in Google Drive. |
In Drive you can of course create documents, presentations (PowerPoint), spreadsheet (Excel), form (a surveying tool) and drawing (edit/create images). You can also store any file imaginable on your drive - few mp3s, photos or entire folders can all be uploaded to your Drive.
The true brilliance of Drive is not the universal access it enables, Drive also makes it incredibly easy to share a stored file with anyone using their email address. You can have them edit a word document, just give comments or limit them to only be able to view and read it. All can be done with just a few clicks. So that is where we will start.
Ready for the next step? You are on your way to becoming a Google ninja wizard. Next stop is a how to on folder sharing.
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