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

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Google Docs in Plain English (2:51)

Google drive/docs

What do they mean by “get stuff done, together, with apps in Google Drive?”

Google drive/docs

Why did Google change the name from Docs to Drive?

Logged into my account

How do I• Create a new spreadsheet?• Delete a file?• Upload a document?• Sort the files by title?• Share a file with others?• See only presentations?• Rename a file?• See files in a given folder?• Create a new folder?• Go to other Google apps?• Add comments to a Google doc?

Pause to play around with the program. Be sure you discover the answers to these questions.

Demo/play

Reflect after playing around with a new program.

The user interface – a wire-frame diagram

• Listing of your files and folders • Links to other Google applications• Settings for this program• Actions for this program

Match the descriptions with the areas within the wire-frame diagram.

D

BA

C

• Listing of your files and folders (D) • Links to other Google applications (A) • Settings for this program (B) • Actions for this program (C)

D

BA

C

D

BA

C

Match the descriptions with the areas within the wire-frame diagram.

A. B. C. D.

Visibility Permission

Collaboration

Adding comments

The fathers of networked collaboration

Vannevar Bush J. C. R. Licklider Doug Engelbart

Good news, bad news

(This slide needs a better joke– can you find a good one?)

Summary

D

BA

C

1. Why are some data files stored locally today – why not store them all on the Internet?

2. How do programmers use wire-frame diagrams?3. How do users use wire-frame diagrams?4. Describe a school situation in which you would like to share a document with

someone else.5. Describe a professional situation in which you would like to share a document

with someone else.6. The Google Docs word processor program is loaded from a server on the Web.

When is it loaded?7. What are advantages of the Google Docs word processor over Microsoft

word?8. What are the advantages of Microsoft Word over the Google Docs word

processor?

(Continued on next slide)

Self-study questions

D

BA

C

A. B. C. D.

How is each Google Docs user-interface region used?

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. The Google Docs word processor program is loaded from a server on the Web. When is it loaded?

5. What are advantages of the Google Docs word processor over Microsoft word?

6. What are the advantages of Microsoft Word over the Google Docs word processor?