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Using Google Drive/Docs
Skills: use Google Drive/DocsConcepts: we download and run programs inside our Web clients, wire-frame diagram, user interface, collaboration
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Where does this topic fit?
• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications
• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation– User skills
Google Docs in plain English
Watch the video (3:51)
Google Docs has been rebranded as Google Drive.
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&
Google docs drive
Logged into my account
How do I1. 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
Reflect after playing around with a new program.
The user interface – a wire-frame diagram
• 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
BA
C
D
BA
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)
Visibility Permission
Collaboration
Adding comments
CPU
Storage devices(programs and data)
Inputdevices
OutputDevices
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?
CPU
Storage devices(programs and data)
Inputdevices
OutputDevices
Web clientOperating systemG. D. word processorYour document
At least four things must be In memory while working on a Google Drive word processing document.
The fathers of networked collaboration
Vannevar Bush J. C. R. Licklider Doug Engelbart
Summary
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/
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?