1. Using Google Apps
and Social Media
in Schools
Google@BETT 2013

2. Access to the presentation
http://goo.gl/wkbo2

3. Presenter
Ludmila Rozhdestvenskaya
(Tallinn, Estonia)
Vice-principle
Tallinn Central Russian High School
DigiTiiger Program Coach

4. At School
with

5. Why start with Google Apps at School?
Issues Schools Face When "Going Online"
● Age restrictions - Google accounts for students under the age
of 12
● Forgotten passwords administration
● Complexity involved in managing a self-made database
● Anonymity and unauthorized access
● Questionable status and traceability of the students' online
learning process

6. School Management
using
a Combination of
Google Apps

7. Virtual Teachers' Room
Collaboration and Information Exchange

8. Google tools
for school management
lessons
evaluation plans
tools
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teachers
duty lists
reports
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timetables statistics

9. Google Calendar
Indispensable in Planning School Events

10. Teaching and Learning
with

11. Learning Materials for Junior Grades:
Worksheets in Googledocs
Interactive worksheets make learning new concepts more fun:
● Students can create visual context maps
● It's easier to visualize when learning a foreign language

12. Learning Materials for Distance Learning:
Task Sheets to Provide Structure

13. Using GoogleDocs to Enable Collaboration
Good Basis for Teamwork

14. Collaboration with Educator
Provide Continuous Feedback

15. Using Revision History
Teach About Responsibility and Accountability

16. Using Spreadsheets for Maths Assignments
Manipulating Spreadsheet Data for Analysis and Graphs

17. Using Spreadsheets for Maths Assignments
Formulae in GoogleDocs

18. Homework Tracking and Administration
Get an Overview of Homework Assignment Progress

19. Student Questionnaires
Quick Deployment of Tests to Gauge Understanding

20. Student Questionnaires
Capture Student Feedback!

21. Using Flubaroo
Automatically Grade Assignments in GoogleDocs

22. Shared Folders
Collaboration and Sharing Among Teachers

23. Teaching and Learning
with
Google Sites

24. How We Use Google Sites at Our School
Collaboration and Sharing Among Teachers
● Virtual teacher's room (corporate school site)
● Class website
● Sites for e-learning
● Research sites
● Sites of the project activity
● Teacher and student e-portfolio sites

25. Help Sites
Prep School and First Grade

26. Project-Based Learning
Publish Student Research Projects

27. Distance Learning
Enable Remote E-Learning Days

28. Distance Learning
An Experiment in Distance Learning
● E-learning day 4-6
● E-learning day 7-8
● E-learning day 10-11

29. Reference Material Sites
Support Students of Language, Social Science and Maths

30. Class Page
Extra Incentive to Visit E-Learning Environments!

31. Outdoor Learning
with
&

32. Photo Hunt
Map a Route with Checkpoints

33. Photo Galleries
Share Photos Taken on an Educational Field Trip

34. Photo Galleries
Place Photos on the Map

35. Social Aspects of Photo Sharing
Collect "likes" and comments :-)

36. Blogging at School?
Yes!

37. Let's Create an Acronym with BLOG!
B Being, build, brave, basic...
L Light, line, little, list, load...
O Original, open, online...
G
Go, get, great, generic...

38. Try a "Paper Blog"
Introduce Teachers to the Idea of Blogging

39. Try a "Paper Blog"
It Works!

41. TKVG RSS - Our School's Public Web Channel
Information on School Events

42. Important Considerations
When Using
Google Apps
in School Education

43. Why start with Google Apps at School?
Benefits
● 25Gb of storage space (compared to 100Mb on
previously used)
● A single account gives access to multiple services
● Authorized access and traceability
● Confidentiality
● Security for students and absence of advertizing
● A single location for all types of educational activities
● Possibilities for integration of 3rd party software

44. Why start with Google Apps at School?
Requirements
● An additional account
● Administration requires dedication (a dedicated
resource)
● School staff needs to be introduced to the platform
and provided guidance
● Planning process to establish clear rules and
guidelines on how to share and collaborate
● Roles and Responsibilities

45. Why start with Google Apps at School?
Potential Caveats!
● Data loss due to human error (e.g. accidental deletion
of a resource)
● Cleanup and maintenance of materials' structure is an
ongoing task
● Updates to the Google interface controls may cause
panic among users who are less proficient with the tool
- plan for ongoing education

46. More information on
Learning with Google http://edublogru.blogspot.
com/
Learning with Google
Russian speaking teachers community