With Google, it's not just a fancy search engine or easy email tool to use to communicate. It also comes with its own storage center, and this storage center itself come with great features. With a personal account, Google will give you 15GB (Gigabytes) of free storage, and after that you can upgrade to Unlimited. As a teacher within a district, your school Google account is unlimited, which is a good thing considering the large amount of files and photos we save! It's important to keep those favorite projects and project examples from students past of course.
So along with a massive storage capability, Google Drive has many fun features and tools, one of which is its own version of a Microsoft Suite. With G Suite you get Google Docs, Sheets, & Slides to use, the equivalent of Microsoft Word, Excel, & PowerPoint. The Google programs work very similar to the Microsoft version, and if you do have a Microsoft document you want to save to your Google cloud (for a school project perhaps), when you upload it you have the option of converting the Microsoft file to a Google Doc, and the Microsoft versions convert to the Google versions quite easily with minimal if any change.
"BUT THAT'S NOT ALL"!!! Your Google drive also comes with fun features, such as Google Forms, Google My Maps, and my favorite, Google Drawing. As an educator, Google Drawing was super helpful in creating a Venn Diagram that I could customize for my student's digital projects.
All these fun features make Google Drive great, but I think the best part, or what really sends it over the moon is the ability to not only share to whomever whatever file type you would like easily (and choose how they interact with it), but also the ability for groups to work on a project simultaneously! That is a great feature to get kids to work together, and continue to work together whether they are in the same room or not. You can also use this to get the whole class to work on a project or presentation, something where every student can add a piece of information or fun tip!
Watch this video for a quick tutorial on utilizing your Google Drive!
A fun way to interact with students, or have students interact with information is to create a Bitmoji Interactive Slide using Google Slides and the free Bitmoji Extension you can add to Chrome. You will still have to have the Bitmoji App on a phone where you can create and customize your Bitmoji Avatar.
I used the Bitmoji Interactive Slide to create a Virtual Classroom. The virtual classroom has links for the Digital Photo students to review lectures, watch tutorials I created, search the custom search engine I mentioned last week, watch videos explaining how a DSLR camera works, change the settings online with an interactive DSLR, and search around National Geographic's website. This interactive slide will make it to where Digital Photo students can access most, if not all the Digital Photo information they may need to be successful or just review.
Try out the slide for yourself! Hit play and hover your mouse over some of the items!
And if you liked interacting with my slide, I suggest you watch this video here to help you create one of your own!
Alright, time for you to get out there and continue working on your 📷Picture Perfect📷opportunities! "See" you next time!
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