Kristin Hokanson
Mark Engle
Create collaborative documents, forms, spreadsheets, and presentations. Share instantly and securely, and work together in real time. Access your work anytime anywhere. Take a trip around the world with google maps and add images with picasa web. Learn how to use Google's powerful tools to connect students to the world of information and one another. In a world where students are always connected google tools can be a powerful way for students to demonstrate cooperative learning, notetaking, generating and testing hypothesis. Samples of use in a variety of subject areas will show how use of the tools can range from a writing assignement where teachers can set goals and provide consistent feedback and use for collaboration to labs where students can generate and test hypothesis all while the teacher can guide the learning.
Resources http://sites.google.com/site/gtools4teachers/
EXPLORE THESE....and take the survey below http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcf68xfb_304g4m88bc2 VIEW PRESENTATION TOGETHER...feel free to request permission to use and share this document
NOTE Chat did not archive...here are some of the resources shared there
SWOT analysis doc http://bit.ly/lts3Y
Kristin's YouTube Channel for PD http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=15D35D820B505C2F
Source of great how-tos http://commoncraft.org you can download from TeacherTube http://bit.ly/POvxY
Places for free email: http://gaggle.net http://epals.com