Our Students Are Going Google!

Students will have access to their student work, calendars, and collaborative tools to create documents, presentations, forms, spreadsheets, drawings, and sites whenever they have access at any time, from most types of devices.

Students will maintain access to their Google Drive as they move from grade to grade with Van Meter School.

This card will contain their "Sign In" information. Each student will have their own "Username" and "Password" that is specific to them.

Shannon McClintock Miller, the district teacher librarian, will introduce Google Drive to all elementary students during their time in the library this week. She will be introducing all of the tools within Google Drive through presentations, fun activities, and meaningful lessons that tie directly to the curriculum.

The teachers will begin to incorporate Google Drive into their classrooms as well. They will share more information with parents as they tools are being used.

One of the best things about the children having their own Google Drive is that they will have access to these tools outside of school too. They will be able to access all of the tools at home and anyplace they are connected online.

They can get to Google Drive from each of the Symbaloo's that are posted on littlevanmetervoice.com. Symbaloo is the homepage for all of our laptops so it is very easy for them to get to the resources that they need.

"Van Meter Elementary Library" Symbaloo

Each grade level has their very own Symbaloo too. They are linked from this page in the left hand corner.

The two videos below will help you understand Google Drive (Docs) and the tools it includes.

Also, please let us know if you have any other questions. We will be happy to teach you about Google Drive too.

Mrs. Miller at shannon.miller@vmbulldogs.com and Twitter @shannonmmiller

Mrs. Sigrist at jennifer.sigrist@vmbulldogs.com and Twitter @jensigrist