1. Google Apps
Introduction

2. 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 • Gmail
• Contacts • Chat
• Sites
• Video

3. 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”

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

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

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

7. Seven Factors Contributing to Success
1. Necessity
2. Leadership
3. Efficacy
– The plans were capable of producing the desired
results
– Google Apps
communication
creativity
collaboration

8. 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

9. NOT TOOLS
ALONE
but
VISION

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Presentations
• Create, upload, save and print PowerPoint
slide shows
• Real time chat
• Collaborative editing
• Uploaded presentations

14. 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

15. Presentations
• Using Chat feature
– Show actual video and images
• Google Video or YouTube
• Images from Picasa or Flickr
• Ideas:
– Pg. 55

16. Spreadsheets
• Incredible range of functionality
• Most robust among Google Docs

17. 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

18. Spreadsheets
• Gadgets
– Data as gauges
– Organizational charts
– Translate data from English
• Publish spreadsheets with own URL
• Search Google from any cell

19. 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

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

21. Spreadsheet
• Chat
– Work on a spreadsheet together
– See names of people
– Collaborator must be actively logged into the
spreadsheet for his name to appear

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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, quizzes
and tests.
• Video

25. 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

26. Blogs
• Defaulted for the public
• Window to the world

27. Blogs
Blogging 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

28. 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

29. Google Earth
• Downloaded software
• Views satellite images and information about
the Earth
• Version 5 – you can turn back time

30. Maps vs. Earth
Maps Earth
• Viewed in browser – • Software that is
connected to internet downloaded
• Create custom maps • Realistic with tilt, rotate,
• Collaborate with others zoom and 3D
• Map, satellite and street- • Virtual flights
level views • Use of overlays – great
• Share – web links opportunity for learning
• Embed within a
website/wiki

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

32. Advanced Search
• Information literacy – top priority
– Searching one aspect
• Affectively evaluate the relevance and reliability of
what they encounter
– Evaluate and Application of knowledge

33. 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

34. Groups
• Share ideas, resources, look for information
• Diocesan Groups

35. Other Apps
• iGoogle
• News
• Picasa
• Sites