I have heard of Google Drive before and seen kids use it before, but I never realized what a great tool it was till now. Google Drive allows you to keep everything from pictures to documents to videos in 15 gigabytes of storage. You can sync your phone, computer and tablet to your Google Drive with ease using your Gmail account. It will automatically sync from one device to the other without any effort on your part. Google Drive consists of Google+, Google Docs, presentations and spreadsheets. As a teachers I could use Google Drive to introduce students to different ways to use the internet. For example, I can introduce students to emailing using Gmail and how to use a word processor in Google docs. Also, I can have students collaborate on a paper or presentation through Google Docs.
Part of Google Drive is Google Docs. Google Docs is an online word processor that allows you to work on them in real time with other people and store them on your Google Drive. This is a very easy tool to use. You can upload Word documents and turn them into Google Docs so you can collaborate with others. Google Docs also saves your work about every 6 seconds so there's no worry about losing work. As a teacher I can have students share their work with me through one easy step. Also, students can work together on a paper, or the whole class can work on a paper. I can have up to ten students work on a single paper at a time.
Google Docs is more common to use in a classroom, but there are other alternatives. For example, you could use Feng Office. Feng Office is free o download and offers many of the same tools as Google docs. Students can collaborate on a paper and share it the same way they would a Google Doc. Adobe Buzzword is also an other alternative and it's free. You can print, collaborate and view the documents from just about everywhere. You can also go back in the history of a document to view previous changes to the document. Teachers and students can leave comments on the document as well. They can also share the documents.
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