Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Moving from Microsoft Office to Google Drive

As I help teachers learn Google Apps and use Drive with students, I have found that many people are confused about what happens when they put their Microsoft Office documents in Drive. To help them conceptually understand what's going on, I made the following infographic. Feel free to edit and share it with people you work with if you find it useful. I imagine that Google Drive will get better and better at dealing with Office docs and this graphic won't be necessary anymore! But until then...


Updates
Thank you Susan Reeves for your suggestion. Files have been updated.
Robie Jayawardhana extended this infographic to include Google Drive desktop version.
Volodymyr Volodin traslated this into Russian. Pages file - GDoc file


Thursday, April 4, 2013

SAS Middle School Laptop Program BootCamp

Here's one reason why I haven't blogged lately. Over the past two days, we launched our Middle School Laptop Program in grade 7 with a BootCamp, thanks to +Patrick Green and many other people at SAS. Here's the story of the past two days...