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Using Google Drive/Docs Skills: use Google Drive/Docs Concepts: we download and run programs inside our Web clients, wire-frame diagram, user interface, collaboration This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
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Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills
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Google Docs in plain English Watch the video (3:51) Google Docs has been rebranded as Google Drive.
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Google drive What does 15 GB mean? Google used to call this Google Docs – why do you suppose they changed the name to Google Drive? Programs for creating: 15 GB free storage &
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Google docs drive
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Logged into my account
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How do I 1.Create a new spreadsheet? 2.Delete a file? 3.Upload a document? 4.Sort the files by title? 5.Share a file with others? 6.See only presentations? 7.Rename a file? 8.See files in a given folder? 9.Create a new folder? 10.Go to other Google apps? 11.Add comments to a Google doc? Pause to play around with the program. Be sure you discover the answers to each of these questions. Demo/play
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Reflect after playing around with a new program.
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The user interface – a wire-frame diagram
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Search and listing of your files and folders Links to other Google applications Settings for this program and activity history Actions for this program – create, upload and organize files Match the descriptions with the areas within the wire-frame diagram. D B A C
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D B A C Search and listing of your files and folders (D) Links to other Google applications (A) Settings for this program and activity history (B) Actions for this program – create, upload and organize files (C)
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VisibilityPermission Collaboration
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Adding comments
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CPU Storage devices (programs and data) Input devices Output Devices Memory (programs and data) What programs and data must be in the memory of your computer while you are using the Google Drive word processing program?
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CPU Storage devices (programs and data) Input devices Output Devices Web client Operating system G. D. word processor Your document At least four things must be In memory while working on a Google Drive word processing document.
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The fathers of networked collaboration Vannevar Bush J. C. R. Licklider Doug Engelbart
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Summary
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Resources Google Docs: http://docs.google.com Getting started guide: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide. cs&guide=21008&from=21008&rd=1 Google Docs in plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA&feature=player _embedded Some Google Docs tips and tricks: http://www.labnol.org/internet/office/google-docs-guide- tutorial/4999/
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Self-study questions 1.Explore the options for sharing documents – what are they? 2.Describe a school situation in which you would like to share a document with someone else. 3.Describe a professional situation in which you would like to share a document with someone else. 4.There was a short pause after I clicked on “Create” a new document. What happened during that pause? 5.The Google Drive word processor program is copied into memory from a server on the Web. When is it loaded? 6.What are advantages of the Google Drive word processor over Microsoft word? 7.What are the advantages of Microsoft Word over the Google Drive word processor? 8.This presentation asked you to play with Google Drive until you were sure you knew how to do 11 things. What is one other thing you know how to do with Google Drive? 9.Why are some data files stored locally today – why not store them all on the Internet? 10.How do programmers use wire-frame diagrams? 11.How do users use wire-frame diagrams?
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