Google Drive

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What is Google Drive?

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization tool offered by Google, which allows users cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing of documents. Google Drive offers users the option to either create a new document on your account or upload documents you may have in Microsoft Office. Creating a document on Google Drive uses a very similar lay out compared to Microsoft Word which is very nice. Drive not only deals with text documents but also presentations worksheets from excel, and even lets you create a form and share the form to gather information from people!

Here is a nice tutorial to get started with sharing and collaborating with Google Drive!

Bringing Google Drive into your Classroom:

1) This is quite an extensive,  long list of things people use Google docs for in the classroom.

2) This is a presentation that outlines different ways it can be used. This presentation not just focuses on docs in the classroom but other ways you can use it for organizational purposes as well!

3) Here are a few blogsabout introducing it into the classroom, and an  outline of  5 different ways to use Google Drive it

4) Here is a video explaining how Drive can be used to support and encourage student collaboration in the classroom!