Note - Taking with google drive

Google Drive is a fantastic tool for note-taking and this short video is going to show you how to take notes in class with Google Drive and share them with your classmates, so to begin with you want to go to Google Drive which can be accessed from the Google.ca home page click on drive the top of the screen and from here you can ask to sign in with your Google account and if you don't have a Google account click Sign Up in the top right hand corner screen and follow the instructions and if you do have have a Google account just go ahead and sign in your Google Drive account. You can see all the documents you have already created If this is the first time logging into Google Drive this is going to be blank, So to create a note for in class you are going to click the red Create button on the left hand side of the screen now you're most likely going to want to create a document but you may want to create a slideshow, spread sheet or form but for example we are going to create a document and as you can see it's similar to word processing software like Microsoft Word. So if you click on the top of the title, we are just going to call this Note. then you can start typing directly on to the screen. you've got a lot of formatting options when you click on Insert you can also insert an image, a link, a drawing, a comment and a variety of other options. So now if you want to share your notes with other students in the class it's easy! Just click the blue share button on the top right hand corner of the screen. Here you have a link you can send to people or you can also directly shared via Gmail Google+ and Facebook or Twitter you can also invite people to share it with by entering your email addresses here and then on the site here you can give these people permission edit your document, comment on your document or just simply view your document you click Share and save and its going to send everyone you want to invite to view your document and email with the link so they can access it when you done as you can see your new note open in your browser in your browser click to open the tab and you're back to your Google Drive and just see that the new note you created is on your home page and you can click on it can access it again it's also important to note that you can access Google Drive from any laptop computer tablet or mobile device so that you always have your notes wherever you go! Thanks for watching and hope this helps