Tip Sheet: Google Drive
<reflection>A tip sheet is designed to support the functional success of the online student. The tip sheet should be user friendly and tool specific. As I worked with my partner to create this tip sheet we actually collaborated in Google Drive. Even though we never did a synchronous edit (due to time zone differences), we were able to communicate ideas and edits efficiently. Since my partner is an English teacher and I am a minimalist, the number of words in our descriptions of the skills differ greatly. There was also the issue with my traveling in the days leading up to the submission of the project. Connectivity and iPad-tivity issues caused problems during the trip. This particular tip sheet has an additional significance. I will be using it to train the teachers and students at my school on how to use Google Drive. I anticipate, as the training progresses, user feedback will lead to additional improvements. Finally, the next generation of this tip sheet will have self-produced video explanations for each skill. My tentative plan is to use Jing to create these videos.</reflection> Kristen Pham and Alan Campbell
<edit>Google Drive is a multi-faceted interactive tool conducive to collaboration between learner-learner, instructor-learner, and instructor-instructor. Google Drive is the collaborative tool that supports what you want to do, when you want to do it. Set-up your free account today and let the collaborations begin! The Google Drive Tip Sheet has been edited to enhance the previous application descriptions using the work done by my partner, Kristen Pham, as well as to improve the quality of the original screenshots used. I have also combined the opening and closing information from the original cover page into the new introduction. I chose to make the new version of the Tip Sheet into a "one-pager" because the Tip Sheet user will most likely be interacting with the Tip Sheet and Google Drive simultaneously. Scrolling down a one-page Tip Sheet will be more efficient, in my opinion, than navigating through a multi-page version.</edit>
Learn how to...
set-up an account
Go to drive.google.com. Login using your Gmail account. If you do not have a Gmail account, click "Create an account." Set-up your user profile and click "next step". Enhance your profile with a picture if you so choose. Click "next step". Click on "Drive" to access Google drive. <edit>Click to enlarge image. I inserted the "Click to enlarge image." message in order to ensure users can see the image as well as the references.</edit>
login
create and share a document
<edit>Click to enlarge image. I inserted the "Click to enlarge image." message in order to ensure users can see the image as well as the references.</edit> <edit>Click to enlarge image. I inserted the "Click to enlarge image." message in order to ensure users can see the image as well as the references.</edit>
<edit>Click to enlarge image. I inserted the "Click to enlarge image." message in order to ensure users can see the image as well as the references.</edit>
create and share a presentation
use the chat feature
synchronous collaboration
A synchronous collaboration occurs in real time. You will need to set-up a date and time to collaborate on a project with a colleague(s). Log into Google Drive at the agreed time. Note: When another collaborator logs in, their icon will appear in the upper right corner of the screen. A cursor will appear on the screen in the same color as their icon. As you and your collaborator type, you will see the words they type added to your document in
real time. Changes are automatically saved in Google Drive every few seconds. In addition, a revision history is available. Click "File" and then click "See revision history". Google. (2012, April 24). Go Google: Hall and Oates. [Video File]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0hHaQgdypI. asynchronous collaboration
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