Using Google Drive To Secure Your Files

Why use Google Drive?

• Google Drive is an effective way to keep your files safe.
• When you upload files to Google Drive, they are stored in secure data centers.
• If your computer, phone, or tablet is lost or broken, you can STILL access your files from other devices.
• Your files are private unless you share them.
• If you are receiving a new computer, your files would be immediately accessible once you log in to your Google account.
• As a teacher/staff member, our students use Google Docs in 3rd-12th grade sometimes even younger. 
• LPS has support folks to help you to use Google Docs and answer questions. 
• Files do not need to be converted into Google files. They can remain as Word, Excel... files.  

Why saving files locally on your computer can be risky.

• If you drop your computer or spill a liquid on your computer your files on your computer (desktop and My Documents...) are at risk of being lost.
• If your computer needs to be erased to get rid of a virus, files on your computer are at risk of being lost.
• Your files are only accessible on this one computer.
• If you are receiving a new computer, your files would still need to be migrated before you can access them on your next device.
• If your computer, phone, or tablet is lost or broken, you will NOT be able to access your files from other devices. 

Contact Dana and/or Randy to help migrate your documents to Google Drive to minimize the risk of losing your data while knowing that Google Drive is considered secure.

Working with PDF files

When working with a PDF file do you ever need to: 

• merge two pdf files 
• rotate 
• split a pdf to mulitple files 
• edit a pdf 
• save an image to a pdf 
• turn a pdf into a word doc 

Well smallpdf.com can do all of these features without signing in and creating an account. Small pdf can also access your Google Drive account for easy retrieval of files you want to work on.

Filter Bypass

How to bookmark your Filter Bypass so it actually works. VIDEO

Why Your Chrome Account Is So Important

Why is it important to login to your Chrome account? 

How do you login to your Chrome account?
Chrome Account How To Video 

Benefits: As many of you heard, we had a virus in several of our buildings this past week. IT needed to wipe all windows computers (teacher computers). For those teachers that were already logged into their Chrome account, all of their bookmarks, extensions, search history and more were saved for them once they logged back into their Chrome account once they got their computer back. For staff that were not logged into their Chrome account, they lost all this information. Let's continue logging into our chrome account as a best practice to save our chrome data. 

Classroom Discussions for all students

Classroom discussions can be tough. There are always some students that are more vocal that can dominate the conversation and other students that are happy to let them because they are less vocal. How can we let students be who they are but still have them join in a common conversation sharing their ideas without having to compete for air space?  Consider using a backchannel like Today's Meet to expand the conversation from just hands raised to a verbal conversation and backchannel that allows many students to sharing their thinking at the same time, while also responding to their peers thinking. Backchannel Help Video 

LPS Teacher Response "Dana, Thank you for your help last Wednesday, it went great. I loved it. I had a quiet kid come up and said I was debating Lydia online after class. Exactly what I wanted to happen, give a voice to the quiet ones." ~ D. Rondinelli Euclid Teacher

Password Self-Service

Forgot your Password? 

Need to change Your Password? 

CLICK HERE 

(located on LPS website under Information Technology - Support and Services - Password Self Service Icon)

Chrome Music Lab and Song Maker

Music in the classroom, a creative way to explore music and different instruments. To make a song, add notes by clicking the grid. You can also share your song as a link and use a MIDI keyboard or sing a note into your mic. In addition, use your computer keys by pressing the arrow keys to move, enter and backspace to add and remove notes, and space-bar to play.  Have fun exploring! 

Song Maker 

Chrome Music Lab