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I had used Google Drive before, but I never knew how many
tools it has to offer. I can really see Google Drive as a great tool to utilize
in the classroom. It has a wealth of learning and productivity tools that are
available online, to students and educators, alike. It offers resources on the
Web to meet all the needs for students to study and teachers to assist with the
learning. The collection of collaborative solutions that it provides for
writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and
reports is amazing. I really like how you can use Google Docs to do all the
functions that Microsoft Office has to offer, and it is free. On top of it, you
get 15 Gb of space for free, and the Google Docs don’t count against the space
limitations. By going from traditional classroom and paper or computer-resident
writing systems into the cloud could see as a hard task, but the end result is
worth it. By taking advantage of the capabilities of Google Drive, teachers can
explore their students’ writing process in depth, at the click of a link, and
provide them with regular and dynamic feedback.
With Google Drive students can create a variety of
content, such as word processing documents. Students can create new documents and
have the ability to share documents with others. When students share a document,
the teacher will have the ability to not only view the document, but to make
revisions or comments in real time, as long as the students choose the “can
edit” option and give share privileges. Also the share/feedback feature is a
very powerful teaching tool, which instead of emailing documents back and
forth, the teacher can access the Google Drive and find and open the student’s
papers and make comments and corrections to the students’ papers, in real-time.
Once the student’s paper is complete, it is really easy to copy from Google
Drive in several formats, including MS Word and PDF.
I really like the capabilities that Google Drive provides
about forms and survey. I learn how a teacher can create forms/surveys and
those can actually become quizzes. Doing the assignment, I learn how I can
utilize this feature to create quizzes and to track the responses that the
students provide. It is You can track the history of revisions. Google Drive
also makes it easy to track revisions and a document’s history. After you make
comments on your students’ writing and they make changes, you can go back and
trace the alterations the students made. Right after the teacher reviews the
assignment, the teacher will have better sense of how responsive students have
been to the feedback and perhaps see ways to can make the feedback more
effective.
Google Drive has advance features for teachers that are
available at the Chrome store. One of my favorite new techniques is the use of voice
notes, by using the free Learn.ly Voice Comments tool. Learn.ly incorporates spoken
comments into any Google Drive document. This is a great way to provide broader
feedback.
I really enjoyed learning the many powerful tools that
are available in Google Drive and can see the many benefits to every teacher. I
look forward to using it in the classroom.
Hi Enrique, I, like you, had used Google Drive before but I didn't know how many tools it had to offer until now. I also like how Google Docs doesn't take up any of your space. I think that using the tools in the Google Drive is going to make school more interesting and fun for our students.
ReplyDeleteHello Enrique,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in that many of us have previously used google, however the tutorial provided a more i depth understanding of the many different tools. The drive provides more than just creating a form it offers many extensions that everyone can take advantage of. From teachers using it in the classroom and to collaborate and students to apply in the homework or creating presentations and documents. Not to mention that it automatically saves the material and it stores it in the cloud. The capacity it provides to store the material are in no comparison to other platforms. Thank you Enrique for sharing
Enrique,
ReplyDeleteI am super excited about showing my students what is available to them using Google Drive. Many of my students have smartphones but no access to a computer at home. This free service can help them type writing assignments without a computer or Microsoft office. I think this will be extremely help for for all students to collaborate on their group projects.
Hi Enrique!
ReplyDeleteLike you I had use some of the tools that are available on Google Drive, but had no idea on the many other wonderful features that it offers. I also think that a very cool feature is the ability for students to collaborate with each other and their teacher in on a document. You have awesome ideas for implementation in the classroom!
Enrique,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your ideas for how you would implement Google Drive in the educational setting. I really like your idea about getting the advanced features for Google Drive through the Chrome Store. I look forward to trying the voice notes tool as an extension to Google Docs. Thank you for sharing your great ideas. :o)
All the best. :o)
-Melissa Holt-
Hi Enrique,
ReplyDeleteI think Google drive products are amazing for students who do not possess computers with microsoft office products. I think that The google products provide a good alternative for editing important homework files on the go, and checking power points and etc. These products can be a lifesaver because you have the ability to check them on your phone or tablet as well. I think that many students can really benefit from these technologies because they can see their classmates work as well.