David Lee EdTech

Google's video on the new Google Drive:  Screenshots taken from Drive's tour: 11 new things from the redesigned Google Drive (@TheGoogleGooru video):

With Google in Education's Classroom teachers can: -Create a class -Add students from your Google Apps account or with a class code, create assignments -Add a file from Drive, YouTube or webpage onto Classroom -Allow students to see assignments and complete them in Google Docs -Allow students to submit work automatically -See who turned in what in real time -Provide grades and feedback from Classroom

Steps:  1. Open Gmail. 2. Click the gear in the top right 3. Settings. 4. Click "Show all language options" and check the box for "Enable input tools" under the General tab and Languages 5. Choose your languages 6. Click OK 7. Click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page. 8. In Gmail, click on the pencil icon at the top right corner (You will see a small window) 9. Click on "Compose" 10. Move your cursor to where you want the text 11. hen start writing! 12. Click on the word or sentence you wrote

Steps:  1. Open Gmail. 2. Click the gear in the top right 3. Settings. 4. Click "Show all language options" and check the box for "Enable input tools" under the General tab and Languages 5. Choose your languages 6. Click OK 7. Click "Save Changes" at the bottom of the page. 8. In Gmail, click on the pencil icon at the top right corner (You will see a small window) 9. Click on "Compose" 10. Move your cursor to where you want the text 11. hen start writing! 12. Click on the word or sentence you wrote

The tech-savvy Mrs. Mitchell has introduced to me an amazing tool that lets teachers create a canvas of lesson materials. You simply drag and drop different resources from the search engine on the right onto your canvas. You can share your canvases with your students and fellow colleagues! Getting Started with Blendspace Resources The image below shows you all the resources you can choose from.  On the right, you are provided with resources from Youtube, Google, Vimeo, Flickr, Educreations, Gooru, Web, Dropbox, Google Drive and even from your computer.  Classes You can create classes and have students register with the class code at www.blendspace.com/register.  Creating Quizzes Lesson Tracking  

Here are the slides to my  “Look What a 2nd Grader Can Do! (Examples of Student E-Portfolios)?”  presentation I used during the Google for Education Summit in Korea.                            

After Google releasing the new compose feature in Gmail, Google has now given you the option to insert files from Google Drive into your emails.  Google states that this is beneficial to users because you can send larger files, enjoy the collaboration features of Google Drive, and have security of who sees your files.