Yes, I’m still excited about going to Google Teacher Academy in just a few weeks. But while I wait for the learning ahead, I’m totally excited about working in a Google Apps for Education School. Why? Because. Google is awesome. It’s like the convenient mart on the long road trip. Everything you need is right there. Well, okay, you can’t store chocolate in Google Drive… but maybe one day. 
So, as long as I’ve loved iPads, I’ve also been aware of the challenges of providing students an easy way to share their work. I’ve been searching the Earth for the easiest way go about this. You know how it is, a sweet little kid finishes an amazing drawing in Drawing Pad and saves it to the camera roll. It lives there. Forever. Or at least until the end of the school year. But that work? It’s valuable. It’s meant to be shared. It’s a piece of the thinking. So, you *could* stay afterschool and hook all 25 of your classroom iPads to your computer, one by one, and save the work. Or you could eat fried worms for lunch. None of those are a good idea.
What is a great idea? Kwikkel. It’s an app in the Chrome Web Store. It allows you to create an email address that will send items directly to a specified folder on your Google Drive. And? It works. Like a charm. Now, that student is able to email that Drawing Pad work of art right to your folder. Or, if you create an address for each student, you can have them send the work to your drive, right to a folder that bears their own name.
You could even make this easier by adding the email address to your Contacts on your ipad. This would allow students to find your name and send it. Create. Click. Share. It’s that easy. The drive folder can be shared with parents so they can see that great iPad work, too.
So, you might be asking, how is this better than Evernote, or easier than DropBox? Well, if your school is already using Google Apps for Education, then why not streamline your workflow? All Google, all one place. Except for the chocolate. You still have to go to the school vending machine or your colleague’s desk drawer for that. At least, for now. I’m sure someone at Google is working on that whole food-sharing in drive thing.