Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Thing 6 - Google

I have never used Google Drive before and didn't know it existed until I did this week's "thing".

 I would not place anything personal or senstive on there.  But as a shared drive that isn't submitting confidential data I think it would would great tool for students or anyone for that matter

I created a fun self portrait which I shared with a friend who then added her own creativity to it.  As I still had my drawing open anything my friend added  to it I  could see exactly what she was creating  at the exact same moment, that was fun.

I looked at the news tab on google as I hadn't used that yet, it was ok but I would still use my favourite news sites instead of going to google news.  I didn't like the layout as much as news.com or smh.com.

I use google for maps all the time but directions can be wrong a lot of the time too, images i use also and ututbe.  I wouldn't need to use the calendar tab though I did have a quick look at it

I am using gmail for 23 things but I have a hotmail account which I have used for years and am happy with.

I did enjoy looking at google this week, you get used to doing things a certain way and it does open your eyes to really look at what else is out there only a click away.