Google Apps and the
Teacher’s Process !
Daniel Rezac, Fremont School District #79, GCT!

Got Frustration?!

Got Frustration?!
Mr. Rezac. circa 2007. Frustrated.!

Why frustration?!
Homework turn in rate was poor.!
Stacks and stacks of lesson books.!
Accommodate ELL and numerous IEPs.!
Piles and piles of paper, wasted.!
Kids were unorganized. !
Still stuck in a paper-push society. !

Solution? !
This Woman!
Mary Reinhard, mogschool.com!

Solution? !
(yes, she’s my mother in law)!

Solution? !
Online Learning Environments (OLE)!
circa 2007!

Image Source :http://www.flickr.com/photos/kt/314372109/!
Link!

Know This Guy?!
Image source: http://gcarvajalmodelos.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/robert-gagne/!

Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction!
1. Gain Attention! 5. Provide Guidance!
2. Describe the goal/ 6. Elicit Performance!
objective!
7. Provide Feedback!
3. Stimulate prior
knowledge! 8. Assess Performance!
4. Present new content/ 9. Enhance Retention!
material!

Content Delivery !
in the 21st Century!

#1.Gaining Attention!
How can we use Google Apps to Gain Attention?!

How can we use Google Apps to Gain Attention?!
1. Have them sign in!!

Signing in makes them engage
with their content.!
This is philosophically the flipside of the
traditional classroom.!
Image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32099449@N00/1802158320!

How can we use Google Apps to Gain Attention?!
2. Discrepant Events with You Tube!
Check out this sample
Google Presentation with You Tube. !

#2.Describe the goal/objective!
What’s the benefit for using Google Apps to describe
your Goals?!

What’s the benefit for using Google Apps to describe
your Goals?!
• Always visible and
accessible !
• Accessible from
anywhere.!
• Students can go back
to previous lessons by
checking through their
documents. !

#3 Stimulate Prior Knowledge!
How do we currently stimulate prior knowledge? !

How do we use Google Apps to access prior knowledge?!
Anticipation Quizzes using Google Forms!!
Click here to see!
this live form!

#4 Present new content/material!
How do we currently present new material? !

#4 Present new content/material!
How can we present new content with Google Ed Apps?!
• With Google Docs you get a Content Stream.!
• Offer interactive lessons with links, video, and more with
Google Presentations.!
• Use previously popular Best Practices in the Google Apps
environment!
• Example: Text Coding by Doug Buehl!

How can we present new content with Google Ed Apps?!
Links
Embedded into
The Content!

Readings: Text Coding (Doug Buehl)!
Click here to
read about
Text Coding
from Doug
Buehl (from
Google
Books). !

Readings: Using Google Docs for Text Coding (Doug
Buehl)!
Use Comments
in Google Docs
for kids to Text
Code!

#5 Provide Guidance !
How do we currently provide guidance during a lesson?!
How can Google Apps for Ed help to provide guidance
during a lesson? !

Tutorials - Google Video !
Use and create
tutorials to be
available on
Google Video or
Youtube. !

Tutorials !
Why not offer
other teacher/
student
content from
youtube?
There’s a lot of
good stuff out
there! Click! !

#6 Elicit Performance (practice) !
How can Google Apps be a helpful tool in eliciting
performance from your students?!

#6 Elicit Performance (practice) !
With Google Apps it’s about HOW you want your
students to practice as opposed to what.!

Eliciting Performance with Google Apps.!
Share documents to students to work on
with groups of two or three. !
Share documents with multiple classes’ groups. !

#7 Provide Feedback!
How can Google Apps be a helpful tool in providing
feedback?!

How can Google Apps be a helpful tool in providing
feedback?!
This
Love Letter
video shows
how the
collaboration
process can
happen
between
students and
teachers.!

#8 Assess Performance!
How can you use Google Apps to Assess Performance?!

How can you use Google Apps to Assess Performance?!
How about a
Digital
Scantron with
Forms and
Spreadsheets?!

How can you use Google Apps to Assess Performance?!
How about
creating
online
journals with
Sites? !

How can you use Google Apps to Assess Performance?!
Formative Assessment! Summative Assessment!
Quizzes with Forms
Project Product with
and Spreadsheets! Google Site.!
Online Journals with
Portfolio Site!
Google sites!
Google Video
Online Worksheets with Presentation!
Docs!
Google Presentation!
Create spreadsheets for
Math!
Final Exams with
Forms!

#9 Enhance Retention !
How do you enhance retention with Google Apps? !

Should we treat kids like a machine? !
Information Processing Theory:
Image source: Unknown!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_processing_theory!

How do you enhance retention with Google Apps? !
Use it!!
Be creative! Develop fun, authentic projects!!
Information Processing Theory:
Image source: Unknown!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_processing_theory!

REferences: !
Thanks to Youssef Elias, GCT, for the digital scantron form. Template here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/
ccckey=0AoTsLnwMBgkjdEpwNm40NmtQb3RKeVJiLUpXQ29nV2c&hl=en!
Google Docs: A Love Letter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7y7NafWXeM!
Google Apps for Education: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/!
Gagne’s Events of Instruction. Original presentation from Randy Hansen, National
Louis University
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?
id=0AWWzaaRnYL0HZGNmZzliNjZfMjU3YzNtNjJ0OGM&hl=en!
RTI Data collection example form:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?
hl=en&formkey=dEdxMHJ2UzdqWjFackpiRGJ5cnMxMGc6MA!
Information Processing Theory:
Image source: Unknown!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_processing_theory!