Save to Google Drive (Extension)

Today's extension gives you and your students the ability to save any webpage to your Google Drive as a PDF. This can be super helpful because of the changing nature of the web. Everyday the web changes in a variety of ways. If you visit CNN.com right now, it will be different in three hours because the news always changes. You may be able to find that story again, but sometimes it would be beneficial to have that page saved as it is at that moment in time. The Save to Google Drive extension can help you with that.

After installing the Save to Google Drive extension, the Google Drive icon will appear in your toolbar. When you're on a webpage that you want to save, simply click on the icon and it will scan the page and save it to your Drive as a PDF. It's important to know that the webpage is no longer active and the links will not work, but you will have a record of that page at that moment in time.

Additionally, with the extension installed, another option will be available when you right click on a piece of content on a webpage (image, link, etc.). For instance, right clicking on a picture will prompt you to "Save image in Google Drive" as one of your menu choices.

This gives you great flexibility to keep and hold content for future lessons, even though the web will change. Here are a few ways to use this in a classroom:

1. Current events: If there was a big event that happened over the weekend that got a lot of coverage, this allows you to save that for class next week to discuss or highlight.
2. Media literacy: What images or headlines might have been used and what story did they tell about a particular topic. This can bring up a great discussion of bias in media.
3. Web layout and development: Analyze the trends of websites over time.
4. Annotation: Take the webpage, print the PDF and annotate it.

There are many different possibilities created by having a record of an individual webpage on a given day.

Check out this video to see how it works.

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