Introduction to GAFE

Title: Licensed to DRIVE: Google Style

Room: 101

Presenter: Kristin Hokanson

Description:

This session is designed as an introduction to Google Apps for Education and to help educators be in the driver's seat to better personal productivity, creating, sharing, and collaboration with Google Drive. Educators will learn how large files can easily be shared for project based delivery without the need to email files, share on a flash drive, or turn in paper. Topics covered: Encourage teachers-student interaction, encourage student-student cooperation, and supporting diverse student talents & ways of learning. We will also cover some of the features of Google Drive including the automatic video conversion (to show videos without YouTube) and the installation of apps in Google Drive that foster creativity and collaboration. Some of the other powerful Google Tools and Apps will be explored as well.

Outline of Presentation:

Going Google: Suite of Apps

Deep Dive into Drive

Adding Apps to Drive

Other great tools

Q&A

Resources:

http://sites.google.com/site/edtechkristin

Session Flow: Took Survey: http://goo.gl/iPl8cw

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Showed process of creating and sharing a google doc: Notes from Session

Shared project ideas

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