Google Apps in Higher Education

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Agenda 1. Overview 2. Technology in the Learning Space Initiative 3. Google Apps for the Classroom ... Pros and Cons 4. Top Google Apps for Learning 5. Questions/Discussion 3

See the academic connections to this initiative: http:// www.montgomerycollege.edu/ ctl/blended/andy/engage.html or http://tinyurl.com/mc-tilsi 4

TILSI Goals • Increase the use of technology in the classroom to enhance instruction • Assist faculty in utilizing technology for collaborative, project based assignments • Nurture a culture of peer training, user- generated content, and universally shared technology resources for faculty 5

About Google • Comes from the word “Googol’ .. Math term for 1 followed by 100 zeroes. – Company goal is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accepted and useful • Google Apps are web based (cloud computing) and self-contained within a browser (with some ofﬂine usage available) 6

Google In the Classroom • Pros • Cons – Provides a collaborative • Technology may be space new to students – Freedom from desktop • Internet connection is apps ($$$) needed – Provides all in 1 • Limited support solution – video, • Security/privacy pictures, portfolios . . . concerns – Easier to share • Applications may be documents discontinued 7 Classroom use assumes students sign up on their own . . . Class speciﬁc

Google for Faculty • Centralized work space promotes social learning . . . peer networks (blogs/ portfolios) • Requires a shift in behavior (network effect) • Departmental networks would make it easier for remote collaboration and promote collective intelligence 8

Top 10 Google Applications for Learning • Google Alerts: • Google Scholar: www.google.com/alerts www.scholar.google.com/intl/en/ scholar/about – Email updates on searches – Provides a broad way to search scholarly – Alerts are sent when literature new new search results are found – Assists with relevancy – Retrospective vs – Provides peer-reviewed prospective searching papers, theses, books, abstracts 9

Top 10 Google Applications for Learning • Searches – Book Search – Custom Search • google.com/coop/cse – Blog Search – Google Search • Deﬁne: pedagogy 10

Better Seen than Described . . • Google Docs – online productivity suite • Google Reader – subscribe to blogs • Google Groups – create online discussions • Google Maps – virtual ﬁeld trips/spatial representations of world • Knol: Unit of knowledge . . . Resembles a wiki but without anonymous comments – tinyurl.com/q7hdrm • Google Sites: Template Based web pages 11 – http://sites.helenbarrett.net/portfolio

Honorable Mention • Google Translate – Tranlates into 34 languages • Google Chat/Talk – Free video chat or just text based • Google Video (YouTube is owned by Google . . . Video sharing) • Picasa • Google Sketch-Up 12

Other Promising Factoids • Google Code: Enterprise application tie-in with Google code • Google Mobile -- www.google.com/mobile – Allows access via mobile devices – Works with search, maps,YouTube and others • Google provides a considerable amount of free storage . . . Accessible from anywhere • Collaboration is becoming an essential workplace skill… Google embodies collaboration 13

Recommendations • Need to create an action team (end-user architects) to map out high impact functionalities of Google apps for both staff and faculty – Do not rely on end users to learn best practices, we must identify them • Align roll out of new technology with training . . . This worked well with MS Ofﬁce 2007 • Create an opportunity for administrators to learn (at a high . . .Very high) new technologies, they must be conversable in new(er) technologies 14

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Google Apps in Higher Education

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