Google for Educators Overview: Tools & Strategies for Educators

Google for Educators Overview:Tools & Strategies for Educators

Lucy Gray

Education Consultant

2011 ISACS Annual Conference

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

A sense of fun pervades everything.

Risking taking and pursuing’s one passion are encouraged.

Everything is in a state of perpetual beta. Continous improvement is important.

Creativity and innovation are core

Thinking Outside the Box: Google’s Working Environment

http://goo.gl/GDTgG

The Search

by John Battelle

Guiding Principles

Focus on the user and all else will follow.

It’s best to do one thing really, really well.

Fast is better than slow.

Democracy on the web works.

You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.

Guiding Principles

You can make money without doing evil.

There’s always more information out there.

The need for information crosses all borders.

You can be serious without a suit.

Great isn’t just good enough.

Applied to Learning

Focus on the student and all else will follow

It’s best to teach a few things really, really well.

Fast is better than slow.

Democracy in the classroom works.

You don’t need to be at school to need an answer.

Applied to Learning

You can teach without doing evil.

There’s always more information out there.

The need for information crosses all borders.

You can be serious without a suit.

Great just isn’t good enough.

Courtesy of Mark Wagner, CUE

Twenty Percent Time

A Video Speaks 1000 Words

http://youtu.be/VfDW7qAdFGk

Another video

http://youtu.be/FPAa7BqgSbw

Food for Thought....

How can we incorporate these ideas into our own schools?

What can schools learn from innovative businesses without becoming “corporate” ?

What are we doing differently as institutions?

Google’s Education Initiatives

Advocacy & Outreach

Google Teacher AcademyGoogle Certified Teachers

Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers

CUE’s Google Workshop for Educators

Google Science Fair

Exploring Computational Thinking

Tools & Infrastructure

Google Web Search for Education

Google Scholar

Google Books

Google Custom Search

Chrome in Education

Google Apps for Education

Google Apps Marketplace

Google Earth for Educators

YouTube in Education

Google Translate

App Inventor

Doodle 4 Google

Make Ideas Real

So, where do you start?

More Even More

Blogger

Calendar

Custom Search

Google+

Picasa

Picnik

Reader

Web Search

YouTube

Create collaborative or private documents, spreadsheets, forms, drawings, presentations and fusion tables

Varying levels of permissions can be enabled

Revision history lets you track changes

Commenting and chat in Docs and Spreadsheets

Work offline and upload later

My Docs Home Page

Share Collections

Templates

Lucy’s iPad Resources

Global Awareness Survey

Survey: http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyskillssurvey Results: http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyskillssurveyresults

Global Awareness Results

Scott Floyd/TCEA App List

Escondido Union School District

Liz Davis

Flubaroo

Presentations

Presentation examples

Presentations

Mr. Stritchfield

Tom Barrett

Docs Ideas

Peer editing during writer’s workshop

Lit circle group activities

Project management

Lab reports

ePortfolios

Shared lesson repositories

Curriculum guides

Unit Plans

Course evaluations

Shared notetaking at meetings and conferences

Classroom walk throughs

Grant proposals

Sign up forms

Surveys

Book talks

Embedded presentations in Google Sites

Easy to use web site creation tool

Based on wiki technology

Varying levels of permissions can be enabled including page level permissions

Revision history available

Create templates which can be shared across Google Apps domains

Embed media created with Google tools and other Web 2.0 applications

Sites Homepage

Goochland Course Guide

Cheryl Davis

Dolores Gende

Mr. Smith

https://sites.google.com/a/boyslatin.org/smith/Thursday, November 3, 2011

Tracy Purdy

Oregon Google Summit

Wendy Gorton - CUE

Sites Ideas

Teacher web site

Professional portfolios

Repository for departmental meeting notes

Accreditation documentation

Event planning

Professional development resources

Assessment

Student portfolios

Digital science notebooks

Book previews

Locate information related to millions of books

Find full texts that no longer fall under copyright

Preview books that are copyrighted

Search inside books

Locate books in online stores and libraries (WorldCat)

Purchase eBooks

Save book titles to your Google account through My Library

My Library

A Sample Search

http://goo.gl/pXOpK

Book Search Ideas

Post your required readings for courses in My Library on bookshelves by topic

Post the link to a specific bookshelf within an assignment or on a Google Site

Have students search text for keywords or to find quotes

Have older students write reviews

Embed the Google Book Search listing in a wiki or blog

YouTube

Create your own channel of content for easy access to digital media

Bookmark videos to playlists

Record right into YouTube

Edit and annotate video

Post video from your mobile device

“Flip” your classroom using educational video content

Lucy’s Channel

Customize your channel.

My Videos & Playlists

Video Editor

Add Videos Via a Mobile Device

Subscriptions

Share Videos Via Social Media

Movies

CitizenTube

http://goo.gl/EGZIQ

Creative Commons Licensing

YouTube.edu

http://www.youtube.com/educationThursday, November 3, 2011

YouTube Teachers

http://www.youtube.com/lifeinadayThursday, November 3, 2011

YouTube Ideas

Organize material for courses into playlists

Create screencasts and videos for your lectures

Subscribe to channels to be updated of new content

Look at the subscriptions of friends for channels to subscribe to

Have kids access your playlists through their mobile devices

Have students design a collaborative project (i.e Life in a Day)

Email video to your channel while on field trips

Maps & Earth

Google Earth and Maps Ideas

View and create Google Earth Lit Trips

Appoint a student to be the class cartographer to document locations encountered by your class

Enable layers in Google Earth to see supplementary materials

Create buildings in Sketchup and import them into Google Earth

Custom Search

Formerly known as Google Co-op

Roll your own search engine using pre-selected sites

Embed on your website and blog; integrate into Google Sites

Bookmark sites directly to list of web sites

Others can can contribute to the web sites search

Examples:

My Search Engines

Custom search for iOS resources

http://goo.gl/LgUZEhttp://goo.gl/bHHBMThursday, November 3, 2011

Custom Search Engine Ideas

Create a search engine for particular units

Have a departmental or grade level engine with members contributing links through Google Marker

Have students serve as curators by creating their own search engines for a unit of study

Google+

Google+ Circles

Google+ Hangouts

Inside Web Search

A Google A Day

Web Search Lessons

Search Stories

Search Story Creator

SearchReSearch

Strategies

Get a Google Account (Gmail gives you a Google account OR you can make a Google account with any email address)

Concentrate on one tool to start

Focus on your own productivity

Remember that great help documentation is built into every Google tool

Encourage your school to sign up for Google Apps

Advocate and educate in your district about the power of these tools

Resources

The Search by John Batelle

The Official Google Blog

Google in Education group within Diigo

Google Teacher Center newsletter

Google’s YouTube channel

Google Teacher Academy Resources

CUE’s Google Workshop for Educators Resources

click on Events and view the agendas to find great resources

Lucy Grayelemenous on Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc.lucy@lucygrayconsulting.comhttp://lucygrayconsulting.com

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