Moving Google Drive Files and Chrome Bookmarks

In an earlier post I explained and demonstrated how to use Google Takeout to save all of the data from your Google account.

If you only want or need a handful of files, there is an easier option than using Google Takeout. That option is to simply download the individual files in your Google Drive account that you want to save.

In this short video I demonstrate how to download documents and slides from your Google Drive, store them on a computer, and then reuse them in a different Google account.



On a related note, last summer I was contacted by a teacher who was leaving her current school district and wanted to know what would happen to all of the bookmarks she had stored in her Chrome profile. Her Chrome profile was tied to her school-issued Google account which was going to be closed when she left the school.

The solution to this problem is to use Google Takeout to download all of the data in your Chrome profile. When you do that you are given an HTML file that includes all of your Chrome bookmarks. You can then take that file and import it into another Chrome profile. All of those steps are demonstrated in the short video that is embedded below.

A Better Way to do Summer PD

Picture this: the sun is shining, you're wearing your favorite summer casual clothes (an old Phish t-shirt in my case), but you're going to miss a great day of outdoor play because you have to go to school for a summer PD day. What if there was a better way to do summer PD? There is! 

With the courses that I offer on PracticalEdTech.com you can complete the lessons when it's convenient for you. Do them on a rainy day this summer or do them while sitting on your porch and drinking coffee from your favorite mug instead of that beat-up travel mug you hauled to school for the last 187 days. 

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How to Use Google Takeout 2023

It's that time of year when I start to get lots of questions from readers about what to do with files in their Google Workspace accounts before they leave one school for another.  In fact, just yesterday I answered that question three times. My answer was to use Google Takeout to create zip files that they can re-use when they go to their new school districts. 

Through Google Takeout you can download the data and files that you have in your Google account. This information can include things in your Google Drive, Google Keep, Google Earth, and all of the other Google services you may have used with a school-issued Google account. In this new video I demonstrate how to use Google Takeout. 

It should be noted that when you use Google Takeout you should be mindful of what information you're downloading regarding students or other confidential information that isn't intended to leave your school district. Furthermore, depending on the settings within your Google Workspace domain, you may not be able to use all of the options that I showed in the video above.