Want to make your Google Drive more visual? The link to Emojipedia is here. If you are looking for a great Google Extention–try this one, it will allow you to save images/files directly to your drive when in Chrome Our featured image is courtesy of Flickr and Greg Wagoner.
Category: Google Drive
A Beginner’s Guide to Google Apps for Education
At a recent parent forum, we had requests for a workshop on Google Apps, so parents can understand what their child is doing at school and support them at home. We focused on Google Docs, Google Drive and GMail. You can see a summary of what we spoke about in the presentation below. We used the…
Digital Bytes 6th June 2016
Google Drive Templates – Because Caring is Sharing Who doesn’t love a good template? Erifili Davis has collated a post full of excellent Google Drive Templates, including the FakeBook one shown here. Check out her suggestions on timelines, presentations, written projects and social media templates. What Students Feel Learning in a State of Flow “Flow,”…
Digital Bytes 23 May
Google Cultural Institute Some of you may be familiar with the Google Art project which gives everyone access to the details of amazing pieces of art. It is part of a larger project called the Google Cultural Institute which includes Historic Moments and World Wonders. Tech Tools to Help you Relax Report writing, exhibition and…
Leaving Well with Google – updated!
[Editor note: We have updated this very important post from our previous 2013 version! The information below is current as of 6 May 2016.] This is always a difficult time of year as we say “see ya later” to colleagues, students and families who are leaving our school. To make the transition a little easier,…
Digital Bytes Sept. 14, 2015
We have a fantastic set of articles in this week’s digital bytes. The first short yet extremely useful article is about using art to start student’s reading. The second article is about new features in Google Drive and the third is about what digital storytelling is and isn’t.
Digital Bytes May 25, 2015
This week’s Digital Bytes has the following articles: 21 Ways to use photography and images in your classroom, Top 6 sites for free videos, photos, and audio, and managing your computer’s linked Google Drive folder.
Digital Portfolios – Organising your Google Drive Folders
At UWCSEA East, we are using Digital Portfolios for Grades 3-5. These take the form of Google Sites. One technique we are using is embedding Google Drive folders in their sites, so content can be populated automatically. Students already have folders set up in their Google Drive (via Hapara, or Teacher Dashboard), so the following…
Attaching New Keynote or Pages Files to Email or Putting Them in Google Drive
When using the new Keynote or Pages applications, you cannot attach the files directly to emails or put them right in to Google Drive. There are two simple solutions to fix this problem. Save the files as Keynote ’09 or Pages ’09 files or compress the files before attaching them to emails or inserting them…
Writing a Real Book Makes a Difference to Students
I have been lucky enough to work with our Grade 3s in the publishing phase of their informational book writing process. What an adventure! Steve Kay (the Digital Literacy mentor) and I both hoped the team might consider creating digital books with iBooks Author, and were thrilled when all 7 classes got on board. We set…