This presentation accompanied a workshop designed to help teachers develop strategies for the use of Google Apps with teaching skills related to Common Core State Standards.

1. Google Apps
and
Common Core
By:
Joshua C. Elliott

2. Common Core State Standards
What is it?
● CCSS is a set of standards designed to create goals
and benchmarks that will create college ready
students. The standards are state centered on a
voluntary basis.
Significance to teachers?
● Provides clear grade level goals and benchmarks that
are applicable across participating states.

3. Common Core State Standards
Divisions:
● Math: categorized by skill domains
● English-Language Arts (ELA)
○ Four Anchor Standards
■ Reading
■ Writing
■ Speaking & Listening
■ Language
● Social Studies, Science, & Technical Subjects
○ Starts in sixth grade.

4. Why use Google Apps?
● Effective use of technology in classroom should
improve learning rather than replace traditional
teaching practices.
● Share resources with students and parents.
● Student group work that teacher can monitor.
● Folders for collaboration across class or groups.
● Revision history review capabilities
● Cloud or Internet based
○ No more "It is at home or my partner is
sick and it is in their locker."

5. Why use Google Apps?
Also enables effective teaching of 21st century skills:

6. Common Core of Teaching
Domain 2: Teachers promote student engagement, independence,
and interdependence in learning by facilitating a positive learning
community
Domain 3: Teachers plan instruction in order to engage students
in rigorous and relevant learning and to promote their curiosity
about the world at large
Domain 4: Teachers implement instruction in order to engage
students in rigorous and relevant learning and to promote their
curiosity about the world at large
Domain 5: Teachers use multiple measures to analyze student
performance and to inform subsequent planning and instruction

7. Google Apps
Drive
Docs
Presentations
Spreadsheets & Forms

8. Google Drive

9. Drive
What is it?
● Serves as an Internet based flash drive with sharing
capabilities.
Why use it?
● Share resources with students and parents.
● Student group work that teacher can monitor.
● Folders for collaboration across class or groups.
○ Ways to organize teaching and student data.

10. How do I use Drive?
● Uploading files
● Organizing files
● Settings
● Converting files
● Sharing
o Groups
o Permissions
● Creating

11. Folders
● How to create folders
● Naming folders
● How to share folders
● Share settings

12. How to use folders
● Writing folders
○ Ways to set up folders
● Group projects
● Linking resources to Social Media
● Teacher lesson plan resource
● Student writing portfolios

13. Google Docs

14. Google Docs
● Why use it?
● Docs is similar to Microsoft Word in that
it is a word processing program. However,
it has several strengths over Microsoft.
○ Collaboration
○ Revision history review capabilities
● Internet based
○ No more "It is at home, or so and so is sick and it
is in their locker."

15. Google Docs and Common Core
Anchor Standards:
● Develop and strengthen writing as needed by
planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new
approach.
● Use technology, including the Internet, to produce
and publish writing and to interact and collaborate
with others.
● Write routinely over extended time frames (time for
research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time
frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range
of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

16. How to use Docs
● A tour
● Uploading an existing document
● Creating a doc
● Renaming
● Sharing
● Templates
● Downloading

17. Google Docs Ideas
● Lesson plan collaboration
● Class notes
● Meeting minutes
● Peer editing
● Publishing student work
● Student collaborative writing
● Letter translation for parents
● Teacher document collaboration
● Student journals

18. Google Docs Templates
● Collaborative notetaking: Jigsaw Template
● Peer review papers: AP Psychology Essay
Peer Edit Rubric
● AP Psychology essay prompt from
APCentral.collegeboard.com Essay Prompt
● Learning Team Charter: Charter
● Lesson Plan Template: Template

19. Google
Presentations

20. Why use Google Presentations?
● Increases productivity in student group projects.
● Presentations can be easily shared with others.
○ Student to teacher (Submit)
○ Student to student (Collaboration)
○ Teacher to student (Missed work & for
facilitation of notetaking)
○ Teacher to teacher (Collaboration)

21. Google Presentations
● Relevant CCSS anchor standards
o Make strategic use of digital media and visual
displays of data to express information and
enhance understanding of presentations.

22. How to use Google Presentations
● A tour
● Uploading an existing document
● Creating a doc
● Features
● Renaming
● Sharing
● Templates
● Downloading

23. How to use Presentation continued
● Customizing slides
● Animations
● Inserting
o Text Box
o Images
o Video
o Word Art
o Lines & Shapes
o Tables
● Other tools, tips, and resources

24. Google Presentations lesson ideas
Student presentations
Comments and chats for making comments
and collaborating remotely.

25. Google Presentation take aways
Chalkboard Template

26. Google
Spreadsheets
&
Forms

27. Google Spreadsheets & Forms
Forms is an excellent app for collecting data
on any topic. Questions can be created in
several formats:
● Text
● Paragraph
● Choose from a list
● Checkboxes
● Multiple Choice
● Scale
● Grid

28. Spreadsheets ideas
● Sign-up sheets
● Data collection

29. Forms ideas
● Sign-up sheets
● Data collection
● Formative & summative assessments
o Flubaroo
o Form emailer
● Surveys
● Rubrics
● Online reading records
● Collecting any data
● Book review
● Reflection or debriefing
● Exit ticket
● Flipped Lessons

30. Spreadsheets & Forms Take Aways
AP Sample Essay Rubric
Rubric for Oral Presentation
Group Peer Evaluation
Credibility Form
Team Work Log
Weekly Reflection
Book Review
Google Apps and Technology Lesson Ideas
Sample Flipped Lesson

31. Search Tips
Quotation Marks: Use quotes to search for an exact word or phrase. This
is useful for searching for quotes.
Dashes: Put a dash before a word you want to exclude from a search.
Tilde: Use a tilde (~) before a term to include its synonyms.
Site:query: Use site: to search within a specific website.
Link:query: Use link: to search for sites that link to the specified site url.
Two periods: Use two periods between two numbers to express a range.
Related:query: Use related: to find sites that are related to the specified
site.

32. Resources
20 Essential Keyboard Shortcuts
10 Tips for Better Google Search Results
Common Core Website