My presentation on what Google Apps can offer schools, with a detailed overview of how Kalinda PS uses it as an entire staff and student learning management system.

1. uc ati on
for Ed
Richard Lambert
Twitter: @richielambert
email: rlambert@kalinda.vic.edu.au
blog: richlambert.edublogs.org

2. Ask yourself...
• What do you want learning in your school to
look like?
• What tools would best support this?

4. The traditional
classroom model is
very linear. We need to
move to a place that
better reflects how
people seek/learn/
create in the modern
world.

5. The traditional
classroom model is
very linear. We need to
move to a place that
better reflects how
people seek/learn/
create in the modern
world.

6. The traditional
classroom model is
very linear. We need to
move to a place that
better reflects how
people seek/learn/
create in the modern
world.
When our students read,
they usually do so as
editors/contributors, not
just consumers.
Publishing is no longer the
end result - there is
feedback and networking
after that stage that is so

7. The traditional
classroom model is
very linear. We need to
move to a place that
better reflects how
people seek/learn/
create in the modern
world.
When our students read,
they usually do so as
editors/contributors, not
just consumers.
Publishing is no longer the
end result - there is
feedback and networking
after that stage that is so

8. The best ICT apps ‘get out of the way’ of
learning.
They are not limiting.
They are not difficult to use.
They break down the walls of the classroom.
They work on any device.

9. our responsibility:

10. our responsibility:
to prepare students in the best way possible to
succeed in the world as we know it

11. our responsibility:
to prepare students in the best way possible to
succeed in the world as we know it
to ensure we are using the best tools available
to teach our students

12. ?

13. ‘Google Docs’
is now:

26. Everything
in the
cloud:
any device,
anywhere,
any time
Google Apps =
A secure network of
Google products managed
from within your school

27. Still only using Microsoft?
Google offers:
• Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations that
can be accessed & edited from any device,
anywhere, anytime
• Easy to use
• Stripped back and simplified - the 1000 features kids
never use in Microsoft Office aren’t there
• Collaborative - shared documents that can be
edited together in real time.
• Everything has a web address - easy to share, embed

28. The ultimate in collaboration...

30. Google Forms
Create survey, share it or embed it in a webpage, get
results in real time in graph or spreadsheet form

31. Google Apps Mail
• Can be accessed from any device,
anywhere, anytime
• Can be ‘hosted’ on any device
• Takes over the school domain name -
‘powered’ by GMail but each address has
the school’s name:
(student#@kalinda.vic.edu.au)

32. Mail

33. Google Calanders
• Can be accessed from any device,
anywhere, anytime
• Can be ‘hosted’ on any device
• Staff calendars become useful again! Easily
accessed on iCal on staff iPads or through
native mail applications on department
notebooks.

34. Calendars

35. Integration with mobile devices

37. Google Sites
• Can be accessed from any device,
anywhere, anytime
• All the benefits of a Wiki with the added
benefit of being integrated into your
document, mail and calendar system.
• Privacy options for each individual page -
set to private, open other Kalinda users, or
public.

38. Student homepage Links to each level page
•Information for students and parents
Level Pages •Calendar of shared level events
•Links to sites that are used in class
• Information specific to class: links,
Class Pages class calendars, class activities etc
Student Pages • a student blog and digital portfolio

39. Sites

45. Staff Organisation

50. Kalinda’s ‘Teaching Reading’ Staff Resource Page

51. Easy to manage - total control onsite

52. So many apps, so many possibilities

54. The FUTURE?
Easy to use
Maximises learning,
communication, collaboration
works with all devices

55. Contact me:
Twitter: @richielambert
email: rlambert@kalinda.vic.edu.au
blog: richlambert.edublogs.org