The Google Drive app is free and convenient online storage. There are endless uses for this app with students, teachers and therapists. Using Google Docs on a computer, you can create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, forms and drawings. With the Drive app, you can access your Google files from any computer or mobile device. The app also makes it easy to share files and folders with others.

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Google Docs and Drive provides many ways to go paperless. Students use Google Drive to create documents independently and collaboratively. With shared permissions, teachers can access their student's files and provide feedback.

Teachers and therapists are using Google Docs and Drive in the following ways: - Collaborative lesson planning - Staff and grade level meeting notes - Shared lesson repository - Reading response journals (replacing composition books) - To improve their students' writing process - Translating - Tracking homework - Sign-up sheets - Science experiements - Flash card center - Formative and summative assessments - Surveys - Observations - Collecting and tracking data - Collecting information from parents or teachers - Spelling and multiplication tests By integrating many of the Google Apps (docs, drive, email, calendar, hangouts, etc.), classrooms will increase efficiency, collaboration and engagement.