Cool Trick: Voice Typing and Digital Reading

Learn how to talk to Google Drive and hear it talk back to you!

Google Drive loves you. Here’s proof. You can talk to it, and it will listen. More than that, it will talk back to you! The trick is simple. Use Docs new tool of voice typing to dictate text into a document. Then, use Read and Write for Google Chrome to listen to the computer reading it back to you. Let’s get that conversation going!


SDL Page on Read and Write for Google Chrome

Voice Typing Instructions (including a list of voice typing punctuation and function commands)

Updated Voice Commands

Cool Trick: Keeping Users from Copying Google Docs

Learn how to protect your Google documents from copying!

Have you been concerned that a students would make a copy of your secure document? There’s nothing stopping them from doing that, right? Wrong! Google has now made it possible for you to protect your secure document so viewers cannot make a copy of the file, download it, print it, or even copy the text out of it.

We’ll let the Gooru explain.

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PD Session: Learn How to Navigate in Drive!

Do you feel lost when someone starts talking about Google Docs, Drive, Forms, Slides, and . . . uh . . . all the rest? Relax and come to this session!

Presented by Marilyn Waite and Darla Omey

Last presented on October 19, 2015 as part of the Sylvania Fall Inservice Day; Next presentation to be announced!


From the ad: “Do you feel lost when someone starts talking about Google Docs, Drive, Forms, Slides, and . . . uh . . . all the rest? Relax and come to this session!”

We will work on basic principles in Google products, such as sharing documents, organizing drive, converting Microsoft Office files, and more. This is the session for beginning users and those that want to make sure they know the basics.  Session participants may want to bring a flash drive or have access to Word files so those files can be uploaded to Drive.


Couldn’t make the session?  Check out this video from Google Education on You Tube!


Session Materials

Google Help Page

Google Apps Learning Center

Google Apps Learning Center for Google Docs