The future of collaboration! A little bit of a learning curve but incredibly powerful!

How I Use It

I embed Google forms on the website to my media center to have students submit online book reviews. I also use Google forms and other Google docs as a way to collaborate with other teachers in my school and across the district. I manage all of these docs and forms through Google Drive. It's very easy to share docs (or have docs shared with me) and add them to my online Google drive. I also installed the Google drive application on my laptop and have the docs stored locally. The students love the use of Google forms and because the forms don't require a log in, it allows students, even at the elementary level, to feel engaged in their contributions to our media center website. They feel very proud after seeing their personal book review on the site (after I take the data from a connected spreadsheet). We have used Google forms for all sorts of terrific uses within the school including calling buses at dismissal, giving surveys, collecting data, etc. By using Google drive, I can access all these forms and docs anywhere I am. I have Google drive invaluable to everything I do.