Google Docs training resources

I will admit it, I am just barely becoming familiar with Google Drive, which is a free online file storage and sharing system, and Google Docs, which is a powerful online word processor.  If you are new like me, and would like some help getting started, please click here for great getting started tutorials and training videos.

Uploading Word files to Google Drive or Docs

Please check out this great video explaining how to upload your existing Microsoft Word documents into Google Drive, and convert them to Google Docs format.  This will allow you to take advantage of Google's great tools to share and collaborate on documents online.  It will also enable students with reading disabilities the ability to take advantage of the new Read&Write for Google Docs toolbar, which has great study tools and text to speech features.

Read&Write for Google Docs: Free screen reader and study skills toolbar

I was so excited to learn today about a free tool called Read&Write for Google Docs. Read&Write for Google docs is a free extension that can be added to your Google Chrome browser. It
reads and highlights any text in a Google document, along with providing textual and visual definitions, highlight collection, and a nice feature to make a vocabulary list from highlighted words in the doc.

NOTE: It will ONLY work with documents that are in the Google docs format, but it is a fairly easy process to convert existing Word documents and PDFs into Google docs format. To learn more about that process, click here.

To see some good images and videos about Read&Write for Google docs, click here

The second video will how you how to install the toolbar, the first one will go over features in detail.