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Change Your Google Slides Themes and Layouts in the Latest iOS App

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Screen Shot 2014-09-22 at 8.28.40 AM The Google Slides iPad app received a nice little update this week. Now you can change your presentation theme and template in the Google Slides iOS app. Previously, you could only do that in your web browser or in the Android app. Make sure you run the update in order to take advantage of this new feature.

This update brings the Google Slides iOS app to closer alignment with the experience of using Google Slides on an Android device or in the web browser on a laptop or desktop. This is good news for teacher working in BYOD or BYOT environments. Speaking of which, one of my summer workshops is focused on teaching in BYOD settings. You can learn more about the Practical Ed Tech BYOD Workshop here.

A Helpful New Feature Coming to the Google Drive iPad App

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Screen Shot 2014-09-22 at 8.28.40 AM In a week full of Google Apps updates, here comes another one. According to the Google Apps update blog, over the next week the Google Drive iOS app will add the option to select multiple files for offline use. Enhanced file organization functions will be added to the app too.

This might not seem like a huge update to the app, but it will be helpful to students who don’t have regular access to the Internet at home. Likewise, it could be a good back-up plan for those times when your school’s network bogs down or crashes entirely. Just make sure that you remind students to select files for offline access before they go offline.

Click here to learn more about the Google Drive iOS app.

A Short Guide to Using Google Drive on Your iPad

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Google_Drive_Logo_lrg-580x461 For a devoted Google Drive user like myself having Google Drive on my iPad is a must. Last week I had some questions from readers about how to use Google Drive on their iPads. Therefore, this weekend I put together a short guide to using Google Drive on your iPad. The guide is embedded below. I am using Scribd to host the document and you can download the guide from Scribd.

 

Google Drive for iPad by richardbyrne