Saving files

• IT Skills
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Instructions

Competenties

- De leerling kan uitleggen waar eigen informatie is opgeslagen en hoe deze toegankelijk is. 

- De leerling kan effectief en efficiënt een tekstverwerker gebruiken op basis van vooropgestelde criteria. 

- De leerling kan content publiceren via internet. 

Working in the cloud

Learning objective

At the end of this lesson you should be able to explain in your own words what "working in the cloud" means.  And you should have experienced it yourself during the lesson!

What do you think of when people say "I work in the cloud"

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What is the "cloud"?

What is the "cloud"?

• A network of computers (also called cloud)
  
  
• Programs and saved documents are no longer on your own computer, but on a computer somewhere in the cloud

Explanation Video

Examples of cloud services

With OneDrive you can store documents and other files in your own personal cloud and share them with other people.

Outlook is Office365's free email service. It allows you to send emails with your personal school email address.

With Word you can create documents. You can then save them in your OneDrive.

You can create spreadsheets with Excel. You can then save also these in your OneDrive.

PowerPoint allows you to create presentations. You can then also save these in your OneDrive.

Skype allows you to hold video conferences. This is useful for group work, for example.

Google has it's own cloud services

How does the Office365 cloud work?

Office365 is actually one big hard drive that all Office programs use. The advantage of this is that it does not matter which Office365 program you use, you can always access your files from any program!

Exercise

Open the web browser Google Chrome        and navigate to the following website: 

www.rlo.nl

Press the "Office365" button and log in with your school account.

You should then be logged in to your own personal Office365 home page. From here you have access to all Office programs. Then open the OndeDrive.

Exercise: Try to create a new folder called IT Skills (follow the steps together with the teacher)

Exercise

Open the web browser Google Chrome        and navigate to the following website: 

www.google.com

Press the grid, then the "Drive" button and log in with your school account.

Exercise: Try to create a new folder called ICT

(follow the steps together with the teacher)

Create a new folder

Create a new folder

Create a new file

Choose what kind of file you want to create.

Create a new file

Exercise

In OneDrive, go to the IT Skills folder you created in the previous assignment.

Create a new Word document and type a nice question for your neighbour there. Then close your document and go back to the OneDrive.

Can you find the file in the IT Skills folder?

Rename the file to "Exercise 1".

Take a screenshot of your OneDrive page, save this screenshot to your desktop and upload it here.

Share files and collaborate

Click here to set the permissions of the person you're sharing the file with.

Enter one or more email addresses of people you want to share the file with.

Share files and collaborate

Enter one or more email addresses of people you want to share the file with.

Click here to set the permissions of the person you're sharing the file with.

Exercise

Now that you have seen how you can create a document in the cloud and then share it with someone, you are now going to try this yourself.

We just created a document called exercise lesson 1. Now share the file with your neighbour and ask if he/she wants to answer the question in your document. Share your file with edit rights.

If that is successful, create a new document yourself and share it with the permissions can comment and can view and then see how this works.

State an advantage and a disadvantage of working in the "cloud".

Look up two more well-known cloud services and write them down here.