Using Google to ...

Collaborate and Share

  
What is 'The Cloud'?
• Internet (the cloud) -based computing
 
• Web-based tools and applications accessed
through a browser
 
• No software installations
 
• Online storage
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Cloud Applications
Glogster Edu
Blogging

Wikis
Pageflakes
Prezi
And the Survey Says...
Agenda
Educational benefits of Google docs
• Collaboration
• Alignment with AASL and ISTE Standards
• Benefits specific to teachers and students
 
 

Google Documents
• Create, share, email, and collaborate using
Google docs
• View revision history
• Create folders
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Gmail
• Creating labels (folders)
• Filtering emails

Articles
Educause Learning Initiative. 2008. 7 things you should know about. . . Google apps.
     Transforming education through information technologies.
      http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7035.pdf. Web. 21 Oct. 2010.
 
Nevin, Roger. "Supporting 21st Century Learning Through Google Apps." Teacher Librarian
     37.2 (2009): 35-38. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 21 Oct. 2010.
AASL Standards
    Standard 1 Indicators
o 1.1.9 - Collaborate with others to broaden and deepen
understanding.
o 1.3.4 - Contribute to the exchange of ideas within the
learning community.
o 1.3.5 - Use information technology responsibly. 
     
Standard 2 Indicators
o 2.1.4 - Use technology and other information tools
to analyze and organize information.
o 2.1.5 - Collaborate with others to exchange ideas,
develop new understandings, make decisions, and solve
problems.
    Standard 3 Indicators
o  3.1.2 - Participate and collaborate as members of a
social and intellectual network of learners.
o 3.1.4 - Use technology and other information tools to
organize and display knowledge and understanding in
ways that others can view, use, and assess.
o 3.1.6- Use information and technology ethically and
responsibly.
o 3.2.3 - Demonstrate teamwork by working productively
with others.
o 3.4.3 - Assess own ability to work with others in a group
setting by evaluating varied roles, leadership, and
demonstrations of respect for other viewpoints.
    Standard 4 Indicators
o 4.1.7 - Use social networks and information tools
to gather and share information.
o 4.3.1 - Participate in the social exchange of ideas, both
electronically and in person.
o 4.3.4 - Practice safe and ethical behaviors in personal
electronic communication and interaction.
ISTE NETS*S & T
NETS*S NET*T
2.Communication and 3. Model Digital-Age Work
Collaboration  and Learning
Students use digital media Teachers exhibit knowledge,
and environments to skills, and work processes
communicate and work representative of an
collaboratively, including at innovative professional in a
a distance, to support global and digital society.
individual learning and
contribute to the learning
of others.
With Google Apps,
teachers can...
 
• access and work on their • promote student
documents or collaboration/groupwork
presentations from • encourage peer editing
anwhere there is Internet  • encourage multiple
• collaborate with revisions
colleagues from any • view revision history to
location within or outside see how student work
of school has evolved
• publish announcements or • view revision history to
upcoming assignments monitor group progress
• create online surveys and • provide feedback to
tests (forms and students
spreadsheets)
With Google Apps,
students can...
• access and work on their • engage in peer editing
documents or • see the progression of
presentations from their work
anwhere there is Internet  • easily edit and revise
• collaborate with other documents
students • leave their flashdrives at
• depend on the autosave home (NO more
feature and not worry Excuses!)
about losing work  
• share documents with
teachers, peers, and
parents
Google Documents

• Document (Word-Processing)
 
• Presentation
 
• Spreadsheet
 
• Form
 
• Drawing
With Google Docs, 
you can...
• Share
 
• Send - email
 
• Publish or Embed
 
• Collaborate: asynchronously
and synchronously  
 
• View Revision History
 
Opening Documents

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Creating a Google Document

Practice Document
Share Document

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Emailing Documents
Another way to share and email...
Collaboratin
g• Collaborate asynchronously or synchronously
• Collaborate in all Google Doc formats

• Teachers even have the option to open real-time chat

*Students may not have this option.
Let's Try It...
Step 1:
Team up with someone else in the room.

Step 2: 
One team member creates a document and titles it 
'Collaboration Practice.'
Step 3: 
'Share' the document with the other member of the team.
*Don't forget to give them editing privileges.
Step 4: 
Both team members open up the 'Collaboration Practice'
document.
To Chat in Real-Time...
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Revision History...
• View who is contributing to the collaborative team's
assignment
• Easily revert back to an earlier version
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Creating Folders
Modern Dance
Let's Try It...
Step 1:
Create New --> Folder

Step 2: 
Give your folder a name and a color (optional).
 
Step 3: 
In All Items, choose which documents you want to move
by checking the box.

Step 4: 
Drag your checked items into the folder.
Gmail 
Creating Labels
Filtering Emails
Filtering Emails
Thank - you
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