Google Docs in the Classroom

Google Docs Melanie Wiscount Wilkes University

Essential Questions
What are Google Docs ?
How can each application in Google Docs be used in the classroom?

Google Docs is a Natural in the 21 st Century Classroom
Collaborative
Creative
Productive
Online – cloud computing – the new Buzz word in education technology
Helps you be a facilitator
Teaches critical thinking among editors
Synchronous & Asynchronous
Web-based

Ways to Use Google Docs in the Classroom
Writing piece by one student (teacher acts as facilitator through the writing process)
Team project – Team, not group ;)
Collect data with a spreadsheet or form
Commensurate on a presentation
Creative with Google Drawing
Design a web page for a topic
ePortfolios

I am unique because... Writing prompt to get to know others in class
Collaborative homework
Collaborative class notes
Published presentation
Collaborate prior to a field trip
Create web pages of content
Collaborate and share with other teachers

Teach information management with folders
Peer edits
Use a document like a blog posting having students make additions (like comments on a blog)
Website evaluation with use of forms
Create widgets for blogs/wikis/Moodle/Webpage

Archive presentations with backchannel for review/relearn
Visual literacy with Google Doc Drawing
Integrate with links to documents with hyperlinks
Publish online to share
Create a webinar environment with presentation & chat

Group projects
Time management spreadsheets
Create documents to share with parents/guardians – Classroom Newsletter
Student Drop Boxes with use of folder
Note: Students need accounts

Google Templates

Teachers create
Students save as a copy
Click on Teachers & Students for templates from other classroom
Create visual appeal to already created document
Critique already created Google Docs
Google Templates

Google Word Processor

Up to 50 synchronous collaborators at one time
Up to 200 viewers/editors
Adding a table in this type of document aids collaboration
Readability – revert to old version (Settings>Editing)
Chat

Add footnotes – copyright, plagiarsm & citations
Insert comments
Create a draft or rough copy
Perfect for brainstorming with teacher and/or peers
Import, or Export, Embed or Publish

Google Spreadsheet

Create visualizations by importing data into spreadsheet and combine it with Exhibit
Couple with form for easy input
Google Spreadsheet

Google Presentation

Publish & control what they see and when they see it
Use a backchannel with chat
Google Presentation

Inline videos in chat window
YouTube and Google Videos
Inline images in chat window
Flickr and Picasa Web
Import, Export, Embed, or Publish
Google Presentation

Google Form

Up to 50 collaborators at one time
Collect data which can be viewed by the class with the corresponding spreadsheet
Very visually appealing
Have students create forms to collect data from peers which they can analyze
You can embed the form and not share the spreadsheet
Google Form

Google Drawing

Up to 50 collaborators at one time
Visual literacy
Students exhibit creativity
Create infographics
Google Drawing

Google Website

Any document can be published as a web page
Google Web Page

Let’s Begin to Create a Google Doc of Every Type!

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