Google Docs Overview Lesson
| Site: | REMC 8 / Kent ISD Moodle VLE |
| Course: | Digital Tools for Teaching and Learning |
| Book: | Google Docs Overview Lesson |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Thursday, April 25, 2024, 10:55 PM |
Description
These resources provide many how-to instructions in Google Docs as well as ideas about how you can use them.
Intro to Google Docs
Upload files to Google Drive
You can upload Word (Pages), PowerPoint (Keynote), images, and more. Beware that not all tables and charts transfer well, but most files work. See below for more:
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Organizing Docs
Watch the video below for hints and tips on organizing your docs:Organizing Student Work Submission
There are a number of ways to organize student work. You could create folders for each class or hour and then instruct students to share the docs with you and include a tag as part of their document name (e.g. Name, hour, class). Then you could drag all the docs into their appropriate folders. But what happens when they forget part of that, and how long will it take to track down all the docs? See the video below for an idea on how you could set up collecting work:Text to speech- Adding Extensions
You can add extensions in Google Chrome that allow you to do a wide variety of things. Click how to add extensions in Chrome to learn how to set it up.One extension for Google Docs is called Read and Write for Google Docs, which provides the ability to do text to speech, highlighting, and other things that teachers and students may find useful. If you add the extension, an icon will appear at the top of your Google Doc; click it and it expands to show the tools available. You could have students add this to their Chrome browser and use it for difficult texts or as a study tool.