This is my introduction presentation for my Google Docs in the Classroom educational technology professional development session.

1. Google Docs
Melanie Wiscount
Wilkes University

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

3. Google Docs is a Natural in
the 21st
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

4. 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

5. Ways to Use Google Docs
in the Classroom
• 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

6. Ways to Use Google Docs
in the Classroom
• 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

7. Ways to Use Google Docs
in the Classroom
• 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

8. Ways to Use Google Docs
in the Classroom
• 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

9. Google Templates

10. 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

11. Google Word Processor

12. 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

13. Google Word Processor
• 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

14. Google Spreadsheet

15. Google Spreadsheet
• Up to 50 synchronous
collaborators at one time
• Up to 200 viewers/editors
• Create visualizations by
importing data into
spreadsheet and combine it
with Exhibit
• Couple with form for easy
input

16. Google Presentation

17. Google Presentation
• Up to 10 synchronous
collaborators at one time
• Up to 200 viewers/editors
• Publish & control what they see
and when they see it
• Use a backchannel with chat

18. 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

19. Google Form

20. 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

21. Google Drawing

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

23. Google Website

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

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