Google as a Change Agent - Shar-e-fest 2012

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How sharing and collaboration enabled by Google Apps changed the way a team worked and the dynamics in that team.

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Google Apps

A Change Agent Image courtesy of Ross and a CC-BY-SA license http://www.geograph.ie/reuse.php?id=2900618

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History of Google at Waikato Uni

2007 Gmail for students

2008 JotSpot >> Google Sites

2008 WCEL Sign up to Apps for Education

2009 Began to promote to staff

2009 Stalled rollout of Apps

2011 Gmail for staffImage courtesy of Hector Milla and a CC-BY-NC license http://www.flickr.com/photos/hectormilla/285061385/

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Nigel and Original WCEL Team

4 people

Using Word and Outlook

Email docs and shared folder

The way we were brought up

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Audience Participation

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Word vs Google Docs

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After 3 months...

Routine sharing

Less precious

Not who, but what

Created our own folder structures

Later...

Stopped using Intranet Stopped using Word

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Outcomes

Flat knowledge structure

Open

Collaboration

Trust

Protocols of sharing

Dynamics

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Metamorphosis

Workshops

Openness

Word

Collaboration

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Mobility

Flexibility

Really anywhere, anytime

USB obsolete

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Using the ideas to work with others

Collaboration

Functional teams

Digital Literacy Project

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Integration with University Systems

Drive as repository

Tablets

Live update

BYOD

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Questions?

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Tracey Morgan@traceymorgan

Nigel Robertson@easegill