Google Drive Essentials: A Google Apps Textbook for Youth Beginners

The purpose of this textbook is to introduce young people and beginners to valuable word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics and forms skills using Google Drive. In this book, George Somers provides a curriculum, complete with 35 lessons and assessments, designed for grades five through eight. However, anyone new to Google Drive and Google Apps will benefit from the skills taught in this textbook. The book includes materials and graphics which have been updated for Google Drive 2.0 (2014). George Somers has been a technology educator in Central California since 1993. He currently teaches Kindergarten through eighth grades at Our Lady of Mercy School in Merced, CA. He is also an Adjunct Professor teaching Computer Applications for Merced College in Merced, CA. George has created this textbook by employing the lessons and assignments he has used in his teaching career and drawing upon his twenty plus years of teaching experience. Google Drive Lessons in this Textbook: Getting Started With Google Drive Word Processing - Google Docs Lesson 1: Let’s Get Word Processing Lesson 2: Print Options Lesson 3: Find/Replace and Spell Check Lesson 4: Selecting Text, Cut/Copy/Paste, Drag/Drop Editing Lesson 5: Working with Fonts Lesson 6: Paragraph Indents Lesson 7: Paragraph Line Spacing Lesson 8: Paragraph Justification Lesson 9: Tabs Lesson 10: Adding a Graphic Object Lesson 11: Page Settings Lesson 12: Tables Spreadsheets - Google Sheets Lesson 1: Exploring a Spreadsheet Lesson 2: Simple Formulas and Functions Lesson 3: Copy Formulas, Insert Columns and Rows Lesson 4: Max, Min, and Average Functions Lesson 5: Absolute References Lesson 6: Format Text and Cells Lesson 7: Borders and Conditional Formatting, Hide Gridlines Lesson 8: Formulas Using Dates Lesson 9: Data Sort Lesson 10: Create a Chart (Same Worksheet) Lesson 11: Create a Chart (On Its Own Worksheet) Lesson 12: Using a Form to Populate a Spreadsheet Presentations - Google Slides Lesson 1: Getting Started With Presentations Lesson 2: Spell Check, Duplicate, Reorder, and Delete Slides Lesson 3: Images, WordArt, Change Background Lesson 4: Transitions, Animations, and Viewing Slideshows Lesson 5: Working with Tables on Slides Lesson 6: Speaker Notes Lesson 7: Buttons and Hyperlinks Graphics - Google Drawings Lesson 1: Basic Shapes, Lines and Line Styles Lesson 2: Draw, Duplicate, Rotate and Manipulate Complex Graphic Objects Lesson 3: Alignment Lesson 4: Stacking Order
ASIN: 1500402338
VSKU: BVV.1500402338.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Somers, George O
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use