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So last night I was helping a friend with his band's website and was unable to get their songs in a usable format to upload. Well I found Covertfiles.com which converts any file you would ever want to use. Sure you can convert files within Google Docs, but this goes way beyond what you would typically find there or with your Microsoft's files and includes video, audio, e-book, images, archiving. Best of all it can serve as a depository as I have used it (for free) for my friend's band and just connect it to their site. You can also upload the files, once converted, to your site - or others including youtube. Here are all the conversions possible.
- Skydrive Tutorial
So it would be fair to say that I prefer Google Drive over Microsoft's SkyDrive. SkyDrive is the cloud based way to use Microsoft. It is not as robust as Google Drive in that it does not have any apps you can add, nor can you run scripts...
- Preview Files In Google Drive
Google Drive now or will shortly allow users to preview files by simply right clicking on the file name. Free Technology for Teachers has a good story and some graphics to show you how to preview the files. The service will...
- Photo Story Onto Google Apps/drive
The best way to do a digital presentation is by using Screencastomatic (here is how). It does not require an account and can immediately be uploaded into Youtube. The only problem is that some schools do not allow use of Youtube. If that...
- Google Drive
Google just announced that you will soon be able to soon upload 30 different types of digital media into Google Docs. You will then be able to manipulate and share them with others. So, forget about having to e-mail large files as you can...
- Presentation From Google Docs
We do a ton of collaboration at my school so I can tell you that I have added very little to the PowerPoint above. But I did upload it into the "Presentation" mode (Google's name for PowerPoint) and since I my district requires us to use Blackboard,...
World History
Convert Tons of File Types
- Skydrive Tutorial
So it would be fair to say that I prefer Google Drive over Microsoft's SkyDrive. SkyDrive is the cloud based way to use Microsoft. It is not as robust as Google Drive in that it does not have any apps you can add, nor can you run scripts...
- Preview Files In Google Drive
Google Drive now or will shortly allow users to preview files by simply right clicking on the file name. Free Technology for Teachers has a good story and some graphics to show you how to preview the files. The service will...
- Photo Story Onto Google Apps/drive
The best way to do a digital presentation is by using Screencastomatic (here is how). It does not require an account and can immediately be uploaded into Youtube. The only problem is that some schools do not allow use of Youtube. If that...
- Google Drive
Google just announced that you will soon be able to soon upload 30 different types of digital media into Google Docs. You will then be able to manipulate and share them with others. So, forget about having to e-mail large files as you can...
- Presentation From Google Docs
We do a ton of collaboration at my school so I can tell you that I have added very little to the PowerPoint above. But I did upload it into the "Presentation" mode (Google's name for PowerPoint) and since I my district requires us to use Blackboard,...