Tech Tip of the Week - November 24

Google Drive Offline! Although the Chromebook is an online, cloud-based device, Google Drive documents are available offline! This means that if your home wifi router is down, the electricity goes out, or you want your student to work on their homework in the car as you run errands… students CAN ACCESS Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides when they are not connected to wifi. Students can even make new documents when disconnected. The next time the Chromebook connects to wifi - Google will synchronize Drive documents to the cloud!

To make sure this is happening - select “Experience the New Drive” from the settings menu in Google Drive.

Crocker’s Chromebook Education Program

After the final Chromebook was distributed a couple weeks ago we started our program to communicate various tips and skills students need to know when using this new learning tool. We will communicate these educational snippets in various ways, including:

1. On the HTV News program we will frequently offer a short Tech Tip of the Day that will discuss current issues we are seeing and reminders about how to best use and protect the devices. 
2. Every Monday for at least the next few months we will announce the Chromebook Tip of the Week. This will be offered as an email to staff, will be covered on HTV News and we will also email this out to parents every Monday. These weekly tips will cover best practices, basic tech skills, “did you know that…”, and other bits of information that will be useful for all students. Teachers will cover the Weekly Tech Tip in their classes during the week so that there is a consistent message to all students about this technology information.
3. In addition, we will post this information on The Crocker TechConnect blog which will archive all of these Weekly Tech Tips and information about the 1:World Initiative.