The document discusses various cloud storage and productivity tools that teachers can use including Google Drive for document storage and collaboration, Dropbox for syncing files across devices, Evernote for note taking and organizing information, YouTube and Spotify for accessing media, and social networks like Facebook and Twitter for connecting with students and other educators. It emphasizes using free or low-cost web tools to work more efficiently and share resources.

1. Working in the Cloud:
Drive, Dropbox and Other Stuff
Rich Hovey
(that guy from Del Rio)
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2. My philosophy on
educational technology
❏ Use the web’s free & cheap stuff.
❏ Take advantage of rapidly
improving internet speed and
stability.
❏ Be more efficient at all kinds of
things.

3. Chrome
❏ It’s more compatible with all the Google
products.
❏ Save time with password memorization,
bookmarking, and extensions.
❏ Create work and home profiles, to keep things
separate.
❏ Tabs, not windows. Use CTRL + T to your
advantage.

4. Cloud Storage
Because if you’re still moving files this way
You’re wasting time.

5. Drive
❏ Formerly known as Google Docs
❏ Stores any kind of file
❏ The most nimble way to collaborate with people

6. Dropbox
It looks and
acts like a
normal folder.

7. Dropbox
These files
and
resources
can be
viewed from
any device,
and by
anyone with
whom you
choose to
share.

8. Dropbox
Even though it
sits on your
computer, it has
an identical twin
in the cloud,
and is
constantly
syncing with it.

9. Dropbox
My favorite thing about
Dropbox? Photos I take
with my phone show up
on my computer within
seconds.

10. Evernote
Because nobody can
remember everything.
Especially at your age.

11. Evernote
❏ On your computer:
❏ Save websites
❏ Tag them
❏ Mark them up
❏ Send them to others

12. Evernote
❏ From your phone:
❏ Remember things you want to buy
❏ Books, shoes, used cars...
❏ Photograph things to show students
❏ Nutritional information on a package
❏ Shakespeare quotes in unexpected
places
❏ An historical artifact on tour
❏ Capture moments
❏ You see a student at his/her job
❏ A coyote crosses your street
❏ A musician plays a rare instrument
❏ Tag and save it all on Evernote!

13. YouTube
❏ More than just watching videos for fun.
❏ Use it with your work profile (Gmail login).
❏ Make playlists.
❏ Subscribe to useful content creators.

14. Spotify
❏ Free installation required.
❏ $4.99/mo for commercial-free play.
❏ Immediately find and play any song.
❏ Make playlists.
❏ Search for other playlists.

15. Social Networks
Facebook
Instagram
Pinterest
Twitter
With a very small investment of
time, these can help you
enhance healthy and positive
relationships with your students.
This is a great tool for
connecting with other educators,
sharing ideas, and finding
inspiration.

16. More tools
Lanschool - If you have computers in your room
❏ Monitor student
activities.
❏ Keep them
feeling “watched”
while your
attention is
divided.
❏ Showcase their
work on the big
screen.

17. More tools
❏ Use webcam + app for fun at breaks
❏ Keep slideshow of funny things
❏ Turn your cellphone into a remote control
❏ Use Craigslist in creative ways

18. More ways to use technology to
improve your efficiency
❏ Use email replies for short assignments.
❏ Use and teach naming conventions
❏ Bookmark, tag, and playlist
❏ Use screen capture tools
❏ Teach keyboard shortcuts & post them
everywhere

19. More ways to use technology to
improve your efficiency
❏ Photograph screens & boards for assignments
❏ Tab+search in Chrome
❏ Just learn Aeries Gradebook already.
❏ Subject-line email with staff
❏ Get your computer networked to the school
copier

20. Glossary
❏ @ - A prefix for all users of Twitter, increasingly used
as shorthand to address people directly on other
social media platforms.
❏ 1:1 (One-to-One) - The presence of one device
(tablet or computer) for each student in a classroom
or on a campus.
❏ BYOD - Bring your own device.
❏ Cloud - Virtual space where things are stored online,
as opposed to on your device.
❏ Network - The wired system on your campus that
allows you to transfer files and send something to
print.

21. Glossary
❏ Productivity Tool - Anything that streamlines or
automates something you already do.
Also known as a workflow tool.
Can be high-tech or low-tech.
❏ Sync A verb describing what applications do in the
cloud to make sure every folder and collection is
updated with the latest changes.
❏ Tag - To mark or label an online artifact, for the
purposes of narrowing its audience or making it
easier to locate. In Twitter and other social media, a
pound sign (#) begins a hashtag.

22. Thank You
and remember:
❏ Use the web’s free & cheap stuff.
❏ Take advantage of rapidly
improving internet speed and
stability.
❏ Be more efficient at all kinds of
things.