Joseph Martinelli gave a presentation on integrating Google Drive into teaching. He outlined the benefits of using Google Drive, including easy file creation and sharing, accessibility from any device, version tracking of documents, and collaboration features. Google Drive allows teachers to provide feedback to students and track changes in their work. It also connects to other Google apps like Docs, Slides and Sheets. While online collaboration through Google Drive has advantages like bringing people together remotely, it can be challenging to discuss projects in real-time without face-to-face meetings.

1. INTEGRATING GOOGLE DRIVE™
INTO TEACHING
JOSEPH MARTINELLI, ED.D.
ASSOCIATE DEAN
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2015

2. Ken Robinson

3. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Introduction to Google Drive
Why Use It
Available Tools
Google Apps – unleash the power
Exploring Google Drive
Create, Collaborate and Connect

4. INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE DRIVE
•Easy to Create, Add,
or Upload files
•Easily find
and add shared files
•Drag and drop files & folders
•Share files with others and
choose if you want them to:
view, comment, or edit.

5. WHY USE ITGoogle Drive is basically the same as Google Docs
Save documents, pictures, videos etc. All in one place!
Access your documents from anywhere
Revise and track documents
Share and collaborate – (Won’t Clutter Up Email)
Use online or download to device
Storage Space – 15 GB Free

6. WHY USE IT IN TEACHING
Revising student’s work
Providing feedback
Track Changes
Connect to powerful apps
Photo and Video Editing
Dynamic Chards and Graphs

7. AVAILABLE TOOLS
Docs = Word
Slides = PowerPoint
Sheets = Excel
Forms = Survey
Monkey
Drawings = Paint

8. UNLEASH THE POWER OF APPS
Explore the Apps
Think of it as playing in a
sandbox
You can’t really make a
mistake

9. LOTS OF POWERFUL APPS
• Edcuation
• Business
• Entertainment
• Productivity
• News & Weather
• And more…

10. TOP APPS FOR TEACHERS

11. Using a document sharing device, such a Google Drive to do
this project was very helpful. Being able to have one folder that
everyone could put their work into rather than having a long
thread of emails back and forth was definitely a pro of using
Google Drive. The only thing that did not work was the timing
of everyone. It was hard to get everyone to do the
project at the same time. It would have been easier to do face
to face. Because this is an online course it was hard for
everyone to submit their work at the same time. But because
of the resourcefulness of Google Drive it was easier to
collaborate with each other to do the project.
There are some advantages to working collaboratively online.
The biggest one would be able to bring great minds together to
work together for a common goal. Students and professionals
are able to come together to figure out a problem and find its
ultimate solution. In our case, we didn’t need to meet once in
person. Rather then try to schedule a time that would work for
three people, we each contributed to the piece separately at
on our own time. Once the roles were designated, we were all
able to make sure we had our portion of the piece submitted at
the appropriate time.
I have never done a project like this before,
using a shared document to produce a group
paper. What I think is a positive of using this
is we can working on the paper and make
changes to it at any time. We don’t all have
to try and figure out a day to meet up and try
and writing everything all at once. This
method definitely works well with people
like me who I play a sport and always am
traveling so I could work on the paper while I
am away at a game. What I think is hard is
we can’t really sit and talk about any
questions we have or issues we have with
the paper. Everything is done through this
program or email which sometimes can make
it a little difficult. For a college courses I just
think this program is very useful for all types
of people and their schedules. The program
can do a lot of different activities and I think
gives projects a little twist and makes it more
interesting.

12. EXPLORING GOOGLE DRIVE

13. For Education
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14. JOSEPH MARTINELLI, ED.D.
ASSOCIATE DEAN
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SERVICES
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
Joseph.martinelli@shu.edu