Google Apps

Introduction

Google Apps

• What is it?– Collection or a group of hosted communication

and collaboration applications.• Education Edition– Free– The entire Google applications• Docs (docs, spreadsheets presentations & forms)

• Calendar• Contacts

• Gmail• Chat• Sites • Video

What does it give students & teachers?

• Use of Google tools in a secure network• Use of Google docs without email login• Docs and website shared within domain• E-mail accounts for students used only

to contact teachers and students– “walled garden for school”

Suggestions for Google Apps

• New domain for apps - $10 per year.– Prevents conflicts– Private network

Administration Hints

• Acceptable Use Policy for students– Publishing guidelines– Communication guidelines– Chat– Email– Sharing vs. Plagiarism– Video– Private vs. public

Administration Cautions

• Chat and Gmail– Communication within and without school– Public vs. domain use– E-mail security/Postini

Seven Factors Contributing to Success

1. Necessity2. Leadership3. Efficacy– The plans were capable of producing the desired

results– Google Apps

communicationcreativitycollaboration

Seven Factors Contributing to Success

4. Expertise– Team between administration and faculty

5. Support– WEEKLY professional development• Focus on the daily need of the teachers

6. Reliability– Technology and support

7. Critical Mass– The actual need to get what needs to be done

NOT TOOLS ALONE

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VISION

Google Docs

• Collection of applications similar to Microsoft Office: Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Forms and Drawings• Create, store, collaborate• 50 people can work same time –

see changes in real time

Google Docs

• Students need to add teacher as collaborator• Create a convention how to name electronic

docs– Period, name, title of paper– 3-Sarah Smith-Macbeth

• Practice procedures– Create handouts– AUP

Google Docs

• Promote honesty among students by having them compose their work within Documents– Time stamped

• Wiki– Electronic portfolios– Marking work– Teaching reading– www.textify.com – 1 GB free (25 mgs) -- $.25 per gb per year

Presentations

• Create, upload, save and print PowerPoint slide shows

• Real time chat• Collaborative editing• Uploaded presentations

Presentations

• Chat– Comments on slide presentations while its being

given • Publishing and Embedding a Presentation– Publish prevent it from being edited– Embedded into any blog, wiki

Presentations

• Using Chat feature– Show actual video and images• Google Video or YouTube• Images from Picasa or Flickr

• Ideas:– Pg. 55

Spreadsheets

• Incredible range of functionality• Most robust among Google Docs

What can Spreadsheets do?

• Engage in real-time editing with multiple collaborators simultaneously

• Chat with collaborators while editing• Create animated movie charts, depicting up to

six variables at the same time• Create surveys and

questionnaires feed live data into a spreadsheet

Spreadsheets

• Gadgets– Data as gauges– Organizational charts– Translate data from English

• Publish spreadsheets with own URL• Search Google from any cell

Spreadsheet Gadgets• Flash Cards• Gauges• Interactive Time Series Chart• Word Search• Motion Chart• Organizational Chart• Timeline• Gannt Chart– Illustrate the start and finish dates of

the terminal elements and summary elements of a project• Pie Chart

Spreadsheet - Images

• Google images only• Need URL of JUST the image• Motion Charts– www.gapminder.org

Spreadsheet

• Chat– Work on a spreadsheet together– See names of people– Collaborator must be actively logged into the

spreadsheet for his name to appear

Spreadsheets:

• Experiment with numbers without redoing calculations

• Permit the explorations of “what-if”• Enable graphic layouts• Identify patterns and trends• Real-time data• Simplify sorting and filtering data

Spreadsheets:

• Comparing, contrasting, classifying timelines• Organize interviews of multiple people• Creates digital worksheets• Plan trip, keep track of expenses• Develop/maintain budget• Keep track of passwords

Forms

• Allows a user to create a questionnaire and send it to a list of people or make it public via the web.

• Responses are automatically fed into a spread sheet

• Self-scoring worksheets, quizzesand tests.

• Video

Blogger

• What is a blog?– Diary or journal maintained on the web– Dynamic – regular postings• Critical thought, opinion, observation or accolade

– Used as the following• Bulletin board• Discussion center• Personal expression journal• Notebook

Blogs

• Defaulted for the public• Window to the world

BlogsBlogging may bring us into a new community of learners,

but it also drives us from a “regular” place of comfort where the rules are steady, change is slow, and things are predictable. Instead, we leave this behind and are driven towards trying to understand concepts of change in all of its facets and its impact on our lives, the lives of our students, and what we are trying to accomplish in our classrooms. This process is not easy or steady, and it provides us with little comfort outside of the constancy of change.

Clarence Fisher

Maps

• Provides searchable and customizable maps• Conduct research and identify problems• Participate in civil discussions on current

events• Use spatial tools and math skills

to solve problems

Google Earth

• Downloaded software• Views satellite images and information about

the Earth• Version 5 – you can turn back time

Maps vs. Earth

Maps• Viewed in browser –

connected to internet• Create custom maps• Collaborate with others• Map, satellite and street-

level views• Share – web links• Embed within a

website/wiki

Earth• Software that is

downloaded• Realistic with tilt, rotate,

zoom and 3D• Virtual flights• Use of overlays – great

opportunity for learning

Maps

• Google Lit Trips– Grapes of Wrath– Lewis and Clark expedition– Explore• Flight simulator• Moon• Mars

Advanced Search

• Information literacy – top priority– Searching one aspect• Affectively evaluate the relevance and reliability of

what they encounter– Evaluate and Application of knowledge

Calendar

• Create, share, and collaborate• Automatic reminders of updates and events• Create a task list• Embed calendar in wiki or website• Color coded• Scheduling– Class assignments

Groups

• Share ideas, resources, look for information

• Diocesan Groups

Other Apps

• iGoogle• News• Picasa• Sites