This document provides instructions for setting up and using various Google apps and services. It includes steps for: 1. Setting up an iGoogle page and adding gadgets like a calculator, docs, and RSS feeds. 2. Creating a Google calendar event and pasting text into the event details from another app. 3. Customizing browser settings in Chrome to use specific pages from a school website as the default start up and browser. 4. Instructions for creating Google Docs, sharing documents, using templates and uploading files. 5. An overview of creating and subscribing to contacts groups in Gmail.

3. Passwords
• If you have a QR reader:
• Read the QR on the desk
• Open the second link on the google
doc: BUTLER/HANNIGAN Weblinks

4. Parking Lot: Questions,
Comments, etc.
• Corkboardme
• Sticky note site
• Use second link in butler/hannigan
document

5. What can google do for you?

6. Setting Up Igoogle Page
1. Open chrome (you may have to find it in your applications)
2. In the address bar type http://www.igoogle.com
1. Sign in if necessary
3. Add the following gadgets (look for the square icon on the right upper corner)
1. calculator
2. docs
3. rss
Go back to igoogle, on the google reader gadget click on the sign up
on the new screen click “subscribe” in the pop up box type
http://www.freetech4teachers.com
d. google viewer (by bas hennekam)
1. add it
2. click on the link
3. copy text in box
4. paste it into calendar box
1. Click on the + sign next to the tab.
2. In the new tab address bar enter the following: http://www.houltonhs.org
3. Click again on the + sign next to last tab.
4. In the address bar type in https://sites.google.com/a/houltonhs.org/music/
5. Open preferences and choose from the on start up menu: use the following pages and click “use current”
6. Go to the default browser option and click “make google chrome my default browser”
7. Your all set.

7. Forward All MSLN to G-mail

8. Making gmail contact
group
• Goto to gmail
• Hit compose
• In the to box type all the names of the people you want in the group
• Highlight the list of names and copy them
• Goto contacts
• In the menu choose new group
• Give the group a name
• Find the name on the list of contacts
• Hit add to contact and paste the list of names in the box
• Now you can type the contact name in e-mails instead of individuals

9. Google Docs:
• 1. Document - word processing document
• 2. Presentation - Keynote, Powerpoint
• 3. Spreadsheet - A simulated paper accounting sheet
• 4. Form - A web based score card that sorts data
automatically into a spreadsheet
• 5. Drawing - A blank sheet that can be used like the
old “paint” programs
• 6. From a template - any of the above documents with
some information already on them

10. Uploading Documents

11. Sharing
• Just click on the sharing icon in the upper
left hand corner of the document
• Use e-mail address or groups to share with
whomever

12. Forms
• Don’t share
• Send from spreadsheet

13. • Creating and Using Templates
Definition:
A template would be the equivalent to any document you would create, photocopy and distribute to
students. It could be a worksheet, graphic organizer, questionnaire, etc. By making it a template the
“blank” or “clean” copy always exists in google space.
1. Create or upload your document to your google documents.
2. Find the document on your file list:
3. Click on the box next to the document
4. In the menu that appears after clicking the box (above the file list) choose more:
5. From the more menu choose submit to template gallery
6. A new page will open. Complete the description as detailed as possible. Choose one of the choices from the pull down
category menu (none of them really fit, but one must be chosen).
Using the templates
1. Tell students to create a new google doc by clicking on the create box from their google docs.
2. In the pull down menu choose from template.
3. They will be taken to the Houlton Jr/Sr high template gallery.
4. They should choose the template you want (this is where descriptions become important)
5. Now they can edit their own copy of your worksheet.

14. Google Calendar
• Similar to i-cal
• Web based, not machine based so more
accessible
• Can subscribe to others calendars
• More access via smart phone

15. Thanks
Any Questions?
• Please take a moment to complete the exit
poll in your g-mail on this workshop