Using Google Drive/Docs
Skills: use Google Drive/Docs
Concepts: we download and run programs inside our
Web clients, wire-frame diagram, user interface,
collaboration
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Where does this topic fit?
• Internet concepts
– Applications
– Technology
– Implications
• Internet skills
– Application development
– Content creation
– User skills
Google Docs in plain English
Google Docs has been rebranded as Google Drive.
Watch the video (3:51)
Google drive
&
15 GB
free storage
What does 15 GB mean? Google used to call this service Google Docs – why
do you suppose they changed the name to Google Drive?
Google Drive is extensible
Why would Google let others to add Drive applications?
Do what you do best and link to the rest.
Can you think of Web sites that integrate with other Web sites?
Logged into my account
Demo/play
How do I
1. Create a new spreadsheet?
2. Delete a file?
3. Upload a document?
4. Sort the files by title?
5. Share a file with others?
6. See only presentations?
7. Rename a file?
8. See files in a given folder?
9. Create a new folder?
10. Go to other Google apps?
11. Add comments to a Google doc?
Pause to play around with the program. Be sure you discover the
answers to each of these questions.
Google drive last semester
Programs for creating:
&
How has the user interface changed?
15 GB
free storage
A new feature
Reflect after playing around with a new program.
The user interface – a wire-frame diagram
A
B
D
C
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•
•
•
Search and listing of your files and folders
Links to other Google applications
Settings for this program and activity history
Actions for this program – create, upload and organize files
Match the descriptions with the areas within the wire-frame diagram.
A
B
D
C
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•
•
•
Search and listing of your files and folders (D)
Links to other Google applications (A)
Settings for this program and activity history (B)
Actions for this program – create, upload and organize files (C)
Collaboration
Visibility
Permission
Adding comments
CPU
Input
devices
Memory
(programs and data)
Output
Devices
Storage devices
(programs and data)
What programs and data must be in the memory of your computer
while you are using the Google Drive word processing program?
CPU
Input
devices
Web client
Operating system
G. D. word processor
Your document
Output
Devices
Storage devices
(programs and data)
At least four things must be In memory while working on a Google
Drive word processing document.
The fathers of networked collaboration
Vannevar Bush
J. C. R. Licklider
Doug Engelbart
Summary
Resources
Google Docs:
http://docs.google.com
Getting started guide:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.
cs&guide=21008&from=21008&rd=1
Google Docs in plain English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA&feature=player
_embedded
Some Google Docs tips and tricks:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/office/google-docs-guidetutorial/4999/
Self-study questions
1.
Explore the options for sharing documents – what are they?
2.
Describe a school situation in which you would like to share a document with someone
else.
3.
Describe a professional situation in which you would like to share a document with
someone else.
4.
There was a short pause after I clicked on “Create” a new document. What happened
during that pause?
5.
The Google Drive word processor program is copied into memory from a server on the
Web. When is it loaded?
6.
What are advantages of the Google Drive word processor over Microsoft word?
7.
What are the advantages of Microsoft Word over the Google Drive word processor?
8.
This presentation asked you to play with Google Drive until you were sure you knew
how to do 11 things. What is one other thing you know how to do with Google Drive?
9.
Why are some data files stored locally today – why not store them all on the Internet?
10.
How do programmers use wire-frame diagrams?
11.
How do users use wire-frame diagrams?