Adding music to your Google Drive

To save music in your google drive, do the following:

Insert CD into the disc drive on your computer.  Accept the prompt to copy the CD to your iTunes.  This will take awhile to load, and it whirs away while it's doing so.  Once you have copied the music to your computer's iTunes, click on the music icon in the top left corner.  This will take you to your music library.  If you have a lot of music you can sort it by Name, Time, Artist, Album, Genre.

Open your Drive and create a folder for your music.  Open this folder and then drag the screen to half size so you can see your iTunes screen beside it.

Find the music you want and click on the song.  If you want to choose multiple songs, hold the command key and choose as many songs as you like, or the shift key to select a group of songs that are listed in order.  Drag these songs and drop them into your google drive.  That's it!  Now you can access your songs from any computer, by simply clicking on the song.

Note:  Sometimes when you copy a CD onto your computer it doesn't list the names of the songs, but changes it to Track 1, Track 2, etc.  After putting these into your drive, you can rename them by right clicking (or two finger clicking) on the title and renaming it.

Google basics

Now that our school is officially using Google Apps for Education, with the first step being a change over to Gmail, some people have a few questions about things that are happening.  Here are a few quick tips for this stage.

1.  When someone sends me a link to a google doc, what do I do?  You simply click on the link and it will take you to the google doc.  If for some reason you are denied access, you need to do two things:  1. Check that you are indeed logged in with the school email address and not a personal gmail address. 2. If you're logged in correctly, then send a request for access.  This sends an email to the owner of the document who then needs to change the permissions so you can view and/or edit it.

2.  When I make changes on a google doc do I have to save it?  No, you don't have to do anything.  It automatically saves and anyone with access to the doc can view what you've added.

3.  What if I delete or mess up the doc?  No worries - you can go back to any stage of the document's life to retrieve it.

4.  I've closed the doc and closed my internet browser and have deleted the link from my email, but I want to get back to that document.  How do I find it?  In your internet address bar type in docs.google.com  This will link you directly to your google drive providing you're still logged in. (if not, just log in)   Down the left side you will see this. >>>>  If you click on 'My Drive' it will take you to anything that you have created and saved.  If you click on 'Shared with Me' it will take you to the files that people have shared with you, which is where you should find that document you are looking for.  'Starred' is for favourites, and 'Recent' is for things you've recently been working on.  The big red button with 'Create' is for you to create your own documents to share or to use for yourself.  You can make word documents, spread sheets, powerpoint presentations, forms.... but don't worry about all of those... if you want to have a play, try a document and then try to 'share' it with a friend and see what happens.

If you have any other questions email me or leave a comment below and I'll see if I can help you out!

.....and just so you know, there will be more PD on this early in 2014 at school.....