How to Create Google Documents With a Landscape Orientation

Earlier today on Twitter I answered a fairly common questions about Google Documents. That question is, "can you create a document with...

Five Essential Google Drive Skills for Teachers and Students

For the next few days I'm taking some time off to relax, play with my dogs, and ski with friends. Rather than leave the blog dormant for...

How to Enable Offline Use of Google Documents

Just a few minutes after I published my post about writing blog posts while offline I received an email from someone needing assistance usi...

5 Handy Google Drive Shortcuts

This evening when I attempted to access my Google Drive dashboard the way that I have been doing it for years by typing "docs.google.c...

Best of 2013 So Far...VideoNotes

We're half-way through 2013. Like I've done in years past, this week I'll be featuring some of the best new tech tools of 2013 a...

WatchDoc - A Chrome Extension for Monitoring Google Docs Changes

Update 12/12/2013: It appears that this extension was removed from the Chrome store. I'm looking for an alternative option.  I love Goog...

Use Shared Google Drive Folders to Distribute Assignments to Students

One of the ways that I like to share documents, presentations, and files in Google Drive is through shared folders. By creating a shared fol...

How to Open and Edit Word Files in Google Drive

This morning I received an email from a friend of mine who needed some help opening a Word (Docx) file in Google Drive. Google recently made...

How To Use Google Docs Offline

Earlier this year Google enabled support for using Google Documents offline if you use Chrome and have the Google Drive Chrome app installed...

Google Releases an Official Save to Drive Extension

Last week I wrote about a Google Chrome extension that allows you to send images and files to your Google Drive account with one click. Tha...

Right Click to Save Images and More to Google Drive

Save to Drive is a handy Google Chrome extension that makes it easy to save images, links, audio files, and video files in your Google Driv...

How to Create PDFs in Google Drive in Three Steps

This morning I received a question from a reader who wanted to know if it is possible to create PDFs in Google Documents and if so how can i...

New Course - Google Drive and the Common Core

Over the last few months I have had the good fortune to introduce many educators to using Google Drive to help their students meet Common Co...

Important Lesson About New Google Presentations

Over the last ten days or so I've seen a huge increase in the number of requests that I get to share some of my presentations that I...

gClassFolders Helps You Organize Google Drive Files Shared by Your Students

Google Drive is a great tool that can help you create a paperless classroom. The challenge for teachers who have a lot of students spread ac...

Handy New Ways to Organize Files in Google Drive

For years now almost all of my documents have been created and stored in Google Docs and now Google Drive. Over the last year I've moved...

Google Documents and Common Core Standards

As I mentioned in my previous post, today I spent the day working with teachers on using Google apps to address some Common Core standards. ...

Quickly Find Images for Google Presentations

Back in May Google added an integrated research tool to Google Docs. The research tool allows you to quickly find images, quotes, and links ...

Bibliography Templates for Google Documents

Tools like EasyBib , refDot , and Citelighter can help students format their bibliographies. One problem with those tools is that students ...

Access Google Docs With One Click Even When You're Offline

Today, Google released three new Chrome apps that allow you to access Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and Presentations in one click. I'm ac...