Ahhhh... the cloud. I think after reading and watching several videos in Module 7, I now truly understand what "the cloud" is. I am confident that now I can use and WILL use it! As a Mac owner, does everyone still use Google Drive over ICloud? I think, because I really do not know how to use my ICloud, that I will go ahead and stick to using Google Drive. Plus, there is so much I can do with Google Drive that I love! First off, so many times, I have not been able to send an email because my file was too large. If I store everything in the Cloud I won't even have to worry about this. Second, I love that I can access any document I save to this account and then able to view the document anywhere. No more worrying about flash drives or other devices to save items.
Again, why did I not know about this when I was in college!! With that said, I think I can really take advantage of Google Drive and it will be very useful when I create something at home but then can access it on my Google Drive at school. I think for now I will start using this tool for myself and then with hopes of my school turning into a "Google School," maybe then staff can collaborate on more different things. For example, something that we always do at my school that would be so much easier is sign-up sheets for various things.
My first steps with Google Drive will be getting it saved to my computer... which I must be confused about because when I go to my document drive, Save to Google Drive is not an option. I will have to go back and check that. And then, I think I want to organize all my documents at school and at home and share between the two. This past fall, I had the unfortunate event of loosing everything that was on my old laptop. Lesson learned, I will now save EVERYTHING to Google Drive. One question I do have, do you have to pay for storage after so much space?
I had never even thought about having to pay for storage....interesting. I too was excited about this idea of being able to save things at home and access them anywhere. I will also be using this personally and then hopefully will find more and more ways to use this when I get back into teaching.
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