068. Google Drive: The What, Why and How for Teachers

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Are you still using a Flash Drive or External Hard Drive? Do you store all of your documents on your desktop? Is your organization system nonexistent? If you’ve said yes to any one of these questions, this podcast episode is for you. So much of what we do as educators is now online. 2020 has thrusted our careers into the digital age and now is the time to begin embarrassing what technology can do for your productivity and for your teaching. However, new ways of going about every day can pose new problems. Today, we are giving you one really BIG solution to several problems. The first is to STOP using a flash drive or external hard drive to store your documents. The risk of you forgetting, damaging or even losing these portable devices is not worth the hours and pain you might suffer. Google Drive is the solution for you. We know. You might be thinking but I’ve used it and I like having all my items on a flash drive. We get it. In fact, Bridget was echoing your thoughts not too long ago. Google Drive is a free, online cloud-based storage solution through Google. This is a place to store all your documents and files. You receive 15GB for free but there are reasonable paid options for either a monthly or yearly rate. This is connected to your Google account and it has integrated applications such as Google Slide, Google Docs, Google Sheets and more. In this episode we share our knowledge on the what, why and how of Google Drive for teachers. In this episode you will learn… How to create a free Google Drive account Tips for organizing your Google Drive folders Tips for converting Powerpoint or Word files to Google Drive Methods for customizing your Google Drive Tips for maximizing your productivity in Google Drive SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your hosts, Michelle Emerson and Bridget Spackman,
0:05.9	and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization,
0:10.7	and productivity as a teacher. Today's episode is another installment of, Bridget, we really
0:16.9	need a name for these. But anyway, today's episode is all about Google Drive. We are going to
0:21.9	share the what, why, and how for teachers. Now, Bridget, before you share the TSAH, I feel like we need
0:28.2	to share our current TSAH. It's been a rough morning so far. So we are recording our podcast and we
0:37.0	normally, of course, batch because we preach
0:39.2	exactly, you know, we do exactly what we preach. My internet has been a hot mess. It has been so
0:47.3	glitchy. We've tried to disconnect everything. We've tried to hardwire it. And I'm just going to knock
0:53.0	on something and just hope that right now
0:55.9	it looks okay and it continues this way for the rest of these episodes. Which usually I'm the
1:01.4	one with internet issues. And this time I just had a funny feeling. I was like, I don't think it's
1:05.6	me. And Bridget's like, you want to restart your computer? Like I think it might be you. And then
1:10.5	lo and behold behold it was her
1:12.3	fault it's totally me it's totally there is an outage pretty close to my house so um they sent us a
1:18.0	reconnection signal and everything seems to be looking pretty good so far so we're good all right now
1:24.1	let's share a tsh from one of our listeners this t TSA is from Mephtuna. That's what I would have said.
1:32.0	I would have said that too. I apologize if I've said that incorrectly. So here's what the TSA is. It says my
1:39.4	biggest TSA right now is creating my own teaching resources for my subject as this is my first year of teaching.
1:45.8	Yes, I know that the internet has endless resources to offer, but attaining the right material
1:50.9	from the web is like finding a needle and a haystack. It honestly takes more time than making it
1:57.5	myself. Yeah, especially if you're having internet problems like Bridget.
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