Challenge #9-Drive

Challenge #9-Drive

One of my summer goal was to try and work with my Chromebook. In my mind Chromebook and google drive were the same. I separate the two and then seeing the challenge I knew I had a chance to better learn and use it.  It was difficult for me in the fear of loosing material - files and folders. If you have Dropbox, then Drive is very similar to it.

Through the challenge which for me took longer than for probably most I realize that Drive is like the "cloud" people talk about but that you can do more with it. I feel I only just understood how it works in doing and reading the exercises. I feel less fear of it now and know:
1. You can store items there and not loose them from your laptop when you upload them.
2. You can get items from  there (download) and save them onto your computer or laptop.
3. Yes to create folders and put in and take out files from them
4. Googles terminology for what corresponds to Word.
5. Experimented getting and using, downloading, switching, uploading and creating within the drive and putting files from different sources- Mac computer,  iPad, and Chromebook. This really helped to see how Drive interconnects with them all. iPhone is left to explore.

One disadvantage I thought of is that while I can work on something on my laptop if store there without internet access, I do need it to get to Drive.  I've yet to explore offline work. Along those lines the share where we all work together on a document at the same time.  What I want most is to master this so to use it with collaborating with fellow teachers. Like all things it is practice that will make it easier and me more confident.

So if you are hesitant about using the new system start here.  Docs may be my next challenge since it is with Drive and what we may as teachers be using frequently.

Yomaira