Lucky for me, I had saved my homework (and much more) to Google Drive prior to my computer crashing.There are so many pro's to entrusting Google with all my media: photos, videos, music, documents, and more. In this situation it would be Google Drive that would come to my rescue and save the day. Retrieving my data was simple, all I had to do was log into my Google Drive account and "Voila!" I was back up and running. Everything that I had feared was gone, never to be seen again was neatly stored within the confines of my Google Drive.
According to the Google Drive website Drive allows you to:
- Store any file.
- Drive starts you with 15 GB of free Google storage, so you can keep pictures, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos – anything,
- See your stuff anywhere.
- Your files in Drive can be reached from any smartphone, tablet, or computer. So wherever you go, your files follow.
- Share files and folders.
- You can quickly invite others to view, download, and collaborate on all the files you want–no email attachment needed.
This is a great reflection on the importance of the shift toward cloud-based technologies, Tracy! Interestingly, almost all of the technologies that students have explored this semester are cloud-based: things you can access from any computer by logging into an account. That is a huge and relatively recent shift. (You might like Dropbox, too. It's another way to save all of your documents in a cloud. I like Microsoft Word, so I prefer it to Google Drive for my own personal work, but they are both great!)
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