Presentation on drive & blogger
Here are the slides from today. Lots of questions to follow up.. if your question isn’t in the presentation itself, please add your own question in the comments below.
Tag: google drive
Here are the slides on google apps in the classroom
Here are the slides we started with on the first day. Since then, we’ve been adding to these each time. This post was originally part of the ACEE Communities of Practice blog.
Help – how can I upload files into the google drive space?
Teachers at PRACE need to store audio recordings from class in a shared online space. Lately we’ve been using google drive for this. Sometimes you can upload files directly from your iPad to the “Gdrive”. Other times you might save them to USB stick or a folder on your computer. Here’s a video showing how to upload from ordinary computer (windows), into the Gdrive space. Let us know in the comments below if this seems clear or helpful in any way (or not). It moves pretty fast, you may need Read More …
Copy a presentation file from iPad to laptop
Faye, one of the amazing teachers at PRACE, got her students to make slide presentations using Keynote on the iPads. The students showed their presentations on the big screen with Airplay, and then sent their files to Faye via Airdrop. Then we wondered how to get all those presentation files from Faye’s iPad to her laptop. One way to do this is to share the Keynote file with google drive.. you can then get to the files on your laptop or desktop, at drive.google.com in the web browser. This is Read More …
Great session at RNH – many iPad questions!!
We had a terrific session down at the Reservoir Neighbourhood House the other week (21 April). Four teachers, 4 iPads, 1 windows laptop and one projector. Here are the questions & topics we started with. So many questions, some still unanswered. PD register on the google drive, and other forms People were having trouble with the PD register, but we found out that Peter has put iPad-friendly link on the intranet. Thanks Peter!! * The TV and the iPad Yes, we do need the appleTV to broadcast to the TV. We’re Read More …
Many questions: from powerpoint to copyright
It was great meeting with Paula because she had so many questions. I’ve attempted to give a pithy response.. but if something needs more clarity, let me know in the comments below. What can we do with powerpoint in teaching and learning? For presentation, work with student texts in a way that students work either on the data projector or individually. You can include language and literacy learning activities in the presentation. You could work with the whole group of students using a powerpoint on the data projector, and then Read More …
What is “the cloud” and how does it work?
Good question, thanks Paula. In fact plenty of questions came up the other day as teachers sat around a table at Lalor Living & Learning Centre Inc. We were talking about “cloud computing” – when your data sits on other people’s computers. So what is “The Cloud”? Descending Clouds – by Gary Hayes Essentially it is a move away from storing files and running applications on your local computer. Now you can use data networks in different physical locations to both store files and run applications. The cloud is partly for data Read More …
Investigative Teachers at Community West
A wonderful project at Community West in St Albans, where Dinna Tayao has invited teachers to join a weekly session of exploration and sharing. I went out to visit Dinna and her team of investigating educators. They have been running a fantastic in-house exploration of all kinds of e-learning. Each week one teacher explores a new strategy, software or other resource, evaluates its usefulness in class with students, and then reports back to the other teachers. 2 hours a week. They’ve had visiting expert speakers as well. Brilliant work from Read More …
Collaborate and create documents together – with google drive, desktop edition.
3 Questions: Are you using google docs? (aka google drive) Have you noticed that you can now access your google drive files and folders via your desktop? Have you noticed that you can share any kind of file via this cloud system now, not just google documents? Google drive is now a lot like dropbox – a place to share files and folders with people in different locations. You get 5gb of storage space, and you can access and manage the filing system via your local file manager*. [*eg: Windows Read More …