Is Google DRIVE-ing you Crazy? From Google Docs to Google Presentations to Google Sites, Google provides more than a search engine and G-Mail accounts. Learn about the many functions and applications of Google Drive that will take you one step closer to the 21st century classroom. Bring a laptop and a G-Mail account and get ready to DRIVE through Google!!! Presenters: Monica Martin, Heather Martin, & Lynn Potter-Caldwell County Schools-Lenoir, NC

1. Is Google DRIVE-ing You
Crazy?
Heather Martin Monica Martin
7th Grade ELA teacher Instructional Facilitator
Hudson Middle School Gamewell Middle and Happy Valley
Caldwell County Schools Caldwell County Schools
hcmartin@caldwellschools.com momartin@caldwellschools.com
tinyurl.com/is-google-driving-you-crazy

2. Let’s Poll!
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3. Learning Targets
KNOW: Know how to access and utilize the many features of
google drive.
DO: Explore google documents (docs, presentations, forms,
sheets, and drawing) and find ways to use them to enhance
instruction.
Understand: Understand how google drive can impact your
instruction and your effectiveness as a teacher of 21st century
learners.

4. Future-Ready Students for the 21st
Century
● Every student uses technology to access and
demonstrate new knowledge and skills that will be
needed as a life-long learner to be competitive in a
constantly changing international environment.
● Every teacher will have the skills to deliver 21st Century
content in a 21st Century context with 21st Century
tools and technology that guarantees student learning.
● Twenty-first century technology and learning tools are
available and are supported by school facilities that
have the capacity for 21st Century learning.

5. Creating Contact Lists
● Log in to your gmail account
● On the upper left, click the drop-down arrow
key beside Mail and choose “Contacts”
● Slide down the list and click “New Group”
● Name your group (could be students, parents,
teachers, etc)

6. Creating Contact Lists
● Now that you have created groups, let’s add some contacts to them
● While still in “contacts” view, look to the left and find the word
“contacts.” Below it you should see a list of “My Contact,” including
the group(s) you just created.
● Click on one of the groups you’ve created, and then look at the top left
of the white contact box
● Find the head and torso icon with a plus beside it. Click it to add
contacts.
● Type the emails of the contacts for that group into the box that
generates, then click “Add”
● Repeat the process for any groups that you would like to populate with
emails.

7. Why Create Contact Lists?
● Create a group for parents to facilitate quick e-mails and
newsletters
● Create a group for students to push out assignments,
including google docs
● Create a list of groups within your school or district that
you e-mail frequently

8. Google Drive--How to Get There
● Go to gmail, then click the 3x3 block icon in the upper
right of your screen
● Within the drive screen, you will see documents that you
have created or opened. If someone has shared it, but
you haven’t opened it, it won’t appear until you click
“shared with me”
● Click “Create” to access the many drive options

9. Google Drive--Documents
● From “Create,” click “Documents” to access a new google doc
● Name the document by clicking in the upper left (Untitled Document)
● Use the document like a word doc (similar toolbar)
● Try clicking “tools” and scrolling down to “research”
● A research bar populates on the left. Search for images and documents; even set
the citation format by clicking the small drop down arrow below the search bar
● When considering a site, hover at the bottom to cite, insert a link, and/or preview
(citations appear as footnotes but can easily be copied and pasted to a Works Cited
page)
● Advanced users: Click Add-ons, then scroll down to Get Add-ons
○ TONS of free add-ons that, once added, will appear in your add-on cache for
all future google docs that you create or open. Access the add-ons as
necessary within a google doc by going to add-ons and clicking the one you
want to use
○ Student sample doc

10. Google Drive--Presentations
● From “Create” click “Presentations
● Use presentations like powerpoints
● Share presentations and work on them collaboratively (great student option)
● Use the research tool to drag in images. An image that has been “dragged in”
becomes a link. The viewer can click on the image and go straight to the image’s
source site

11. Google Drive--Spreadsheets
● From “Create” click “Spreadsheets”
● Use spreadsheets much like spreadsheets in excel

12. Google Drive--Forms
● From “Create” click “Forms”
● Choose a theme and title your form
● Write your questions and/or help text (students LOVE help text when using
forms for assignments)
● Change the question type by clicking the dropdown at Multiple Choice, or
use multiple choice and fill in your answer choices (add more answer
choices by clicking add other)
● Continue to add items and click “done” when complete
● Click “Send form” to push the form out through e-mail, or choose “embed”
to get a link to copy and paste to an e-mail or website
● At the top of the form, click “View Responses” to access the spreadsheet
with responses

13. Google Drive--Forms
● Use forms as surveys OR for classroom
assignments
● Run the flubaroo script to grade work
○ Go to flubaroo to get the script and view
a 3 minute video then a tutorial to talk
you through using the script for grading
purposes
○ For future google forms as class
assignments, the flubaroo script will
appear in the toolbar (if you followed the
instructions on flubaroo.com). To access
it, just click and follow through

14. Google Drive--Drawing
● Use drawing like Microsoft Publisher
● Create text boxes to type in that can be easily moved around the canvas
● Insert images (remember the research tool and the click and drag feature)
● Prepare students for Smarter Balanced Assessments by creating click and
drag assignments
○ Create an assignment for students and have them work together but
at separate computers
○ Let them “fight it out” as they click and drag, even using the
Comments button to justify choices and try to get classmates to agree
○ Make it a quick game and have them work silently to try to achieve
correct answers

15. Google Drive--Sharing
● To share a document, click “share” then type in e-mail addresses of
recipients
○ Watch their access. You might want them to ONLY have permission
to view, not edit
● You can also share by giving people the link
○ Go to share, then change “private” to “Anyone with the Link” or “Public
on the Web”
○ Click Done to save changes
● If you want to push out a document to all students for them to work in (like
a student handout), share it, but make sure they can only VIEW.
○ Have students open the document and go to File, then Make a Copy
○ They can edit the copy. Name it immediately so that when they share
it back with you it reflects the owner’s name

16. Google Drive--Simple Ways to Use
Google Docs in the Classroom
● Create a google slideshow for a topic with ONLY headers
and minimal information. Share the slideshow with all
students, ask them to “make a copy,” and have them work
through their reading material and respond within each frame
● Create a google slideshow with only headers, and share it
with one member of each group. Each group would be
responsible for one frame, and they can use the frame to
write down their analyses or syntheses of the material for the
day. As each group finishes, the slideshow becomes a
platform for whole class sharing as each group stands to
explain its frame

17. Google Drive--Simple Ways to Use
Google Docs in the Classroom
● Use a google spreadsheet for project submissions.
When students complete projects using online digital
platforms, have them copy and paste the url for their
projects into a form. Share the form with the whole
class, and have students view projects and write
comments in the cells.
● Use google docs for all writing assignments. Use the
comments feature in google docs instead of the “red
pen.” You can even download Kaizena (an add-on),
which will allow you to record VOICE comments.

18. Google Drive Apps
● Go to “Create” then “Connect More Apps” at the very bottom
● Search for LucidChart Diagram
● Connect the app, and allow it to access information
● Create a New LucidChart
○ Try selecting Standard, then Venn Diagrams
■ Marzano’s research says that when students compare
similarities and differences, they comprehend 34%
more
○ Also try flowcharts and mindmaps
○ Try a blank document and drag in the features on the left to
create your own document

19. Google Drive
Powtoons
● Go to Google Drive
● Click Create
● Click Connect More Apps
● Click the drop down beside “All” and Go to
education
● Wow! So many Apps! Choose Powtoons

20. Google Drive
Powtoons
Learn About Google Drive
Math Properties

21. Google Drive
● Go to Create, then connect more apps, then
search for Simplebooklet
My Example:
World War I Vocabulary and Concepts
● Try Loupe Collage

22. Google Drive
Why spend all this time on student
presentations?
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and Webb's Depth
of Knowledge

23. And When Google REALLY Drives You
Crazy…...
Use Weebly to manage your classroom and
communicate with students and parents.