A presentation from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University Google Apps for Learning and Teaching workshop, 2014. This talk presents a case study of a first year undergraduate module, Introduction to Linguistics, in which students created a website to promote linguistics to prospective students. It consider how this was made possible through the use of a range of Google tools, including Google Sites to build the website itself and to promote collaboration between groups. The presentation shows how using Google Hangouts helped to solve the perennial problem of students complaining that it is impossible to coordinate everyone’s timetables to get together outside class; looks at how students used Google Docs to create materials; shows how Google Forms were used to manage the website’s launch event and student evaluation; and demonstrates how features of Google Calendar streamlined the scheduling of consultation sessions. The shows the potential these Google tools hold for innovation in learning and teaching, and how they can increase students intrinsic motivation through by facilitating an authentic learning experience and ownership of learning.

1. Google Apps in Learning & Teaching:
A Case Study
All About Linguistics.
Gary C. Wood
Associate University Teacher in Linguistics
School of English
University of Sheffield
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2. What
we did…
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3.  Assessment through
a real project
 Promote linguistics
to prospective
students
What
we did…
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4. How we
did it…
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5.  Google Sites:
 Page-level permissions
 Integrated features
(YouTube, soundclips,
and others).
How we
did it…
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6.  Project Management:
 Google Docs
 Calendar Appointments
 Google+ Hangouts
How we
did it…
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7.  Launch Event &
Evaluation:
 Google Docs Forms
How we
did it…
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8. The integration of Apps helps solve problems
and facilitate success in intuitive ways.
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9. They enabled a practical and transferrable
approach to student-led learning and
authentic assessment.
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10. They empowered students to raise their
standards and to become self-motivated.
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11. The end result of the assessment is genuinely
useful and is enhancing the School’s profile.
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12. Working online allows continuous feedback,
assessment and monitoring, and cross-group
collaboration.
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13. students with
Empower
tools
opportunity freedom
, & ,
trust
them,
awesome
and they’ll show you how
they can be.
A final thought…
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