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Homeschooling with Google Drive
Episode 2: Homeschooling with Google Drive
In this episode, you will learn what Google Drive is, why you should be using it and how to use it in your homeschool.
What is Google Drive?
Google Drive is essentially an online filing system. In addition, it is integrated with a number of apps which makes it even more powerful. You do need a Google account to use it. You can find it at drive.google.com
Why use Google Drive?
What are the Google Drive Apps?
How to organize your files in Google Drive
Just as with a physical filing system, you can create folders. And then you can create folders within folders. You could have one folder for “School”. Under that folder, you could have a folder for each child. And in each child’s folder, you could have folders for each subject.
Once you have high schoolers you can add a college folder which has more sub-folders for information about colleges, one for scholarships, one for the documents needed to submit to the applications. You just need to find a solution that works for you.
You can have top-level folders for all the major areas in your life you will use this for. For instance, I have one for my online classes, one for vacations and one for Science Olympiad (which I coach).
How to save your files in Google Drive
Once you have your folders created, you can either use the integrated Google Apps to create documents in the folders, or you can upload files from your hard drive.
Of course, if you realize you want to move a document to a different folder, it is very easy to do that!
If you use Gmail, you can save attachments directly from your email. At the end of the email, look for the Google drive icon. Click on that icon instead of downloading the file to your hard drive.
There is a Chrome extension called Save to Google Drive that makes it really easy to save files while browsing the web. You may want to download a document from a website you visit or a class you or your children are taking.
Open the file in your browser. Then click on the Chrome extension and the file will be automatically downloaded into the folder you designate. You designate this folder when you set up the extension and then everything will go to the same folder. (Call it ‘Downloads’ for instance). You just need to remember to go to that folder and move the document to the correct destination.
If you have never used Chrome extensions before, here is a video to explain what they are and how to add them to Chrome.
Online tutorials on Google Drive
If you would like your children to learn to use Google Drive, take a look at FundaFunda Academy’s web-based unit study which also covers how to use Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides and Google Forms. In fact, you can learn along with your children!
If you found this useful, please subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts.
The post Homeschooling with Google Drive appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.
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Episode 2: Homeschooling with Google Drive
In this episode, you will learn what Google Drive is, why you should be using it and how to use it in your homeschool.
What is Google Drive?
Google Drive is essentially an online filing system. In addition, it is integrated with a number of apps which makes it even more powerful. You do need a Google account to use it. You can find it at drive.google.com
Why use Google Drive?
What are the Google Drive Apps?
How to organize your files in Google Drive
Just as with a physical filing system, you can create folders. And then you can create folders within folders. You could have one folder for “School”. Under that folder, you could have a folder for each child. And in each child’s folder, you could have folders for each subject.
Once you have high schoolers you can add a college folder which has more sub-folders for information about colleges, one for scholarships, one for the documents needed to submit to the applications. You just need to find a solution that works for you.
You can have top-level folders for all the major areas in your life you will use this for. For instance, I have one for my online classes, one for vacations and one for Science Olympiad (which I coach).
How to save your files in Google Drive
Once you have your folders created, you can either use the integrated Google Apps to create documents in the folders, or you can upload files from your hard drive.
Of course, if you realize you want to move a document to a different folder, it is very easy to do that!
If you use Gmail, you can save attachments directly from your email. At the end of the email, look for the Google drive icon. Click on that icon instead of downloading the file to your hard drive.
There is a Chrome extension called Save to Google Drive that makes it really easy to save files while browsing the web. You may want to download a document from a website you visit or a class you or your children are taking.
Open the file in your browser. Then click on the Chrome extension and the file will be automatically downloaded into the folder you designate. You designate this folder when you set up the extension and then everything will go to the same folder. (Call it ‘Downloads’ for instance). You just need to remember to go to that folder and move the document to the correct destination.
If you have never used Chrome extensions before, here is a video to explain what they are and how to add them to Chrome.
Online tutorials on Google Drive
If you would like your children to learn to use Google Drive, take a look at FundaFunda Academy’s web-based unit study which also covers how to use Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides and Google Forms. In fact, you can learn along with your children!
If you found this useful, please subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts.
The post Homeschooling with Google Drive appeared first on Ultimate Homeschool Podcast Network.