Workshop in 2 hours
Google Apps For Teachers
In this Session we will bring you up to speed with Google Apps for Education. In this Bring Your Own Device session we encourage you to bring your laptop or tablet to experience the great Google Apps features for the classroom. We plan to look at Chrome, extensions, Drive, Sharing, Docs and Research, as well as, Sheets, Forms and self grading quizzes,Slides Draw and even GMail. We hope to have a preview of Classroom for Google Apps as well. If there is time we will look at Blogger, Sites and Calendar. Bring your favorite device and sign into chrome and we will give you a Google apps for education account to try out.
Chrome
Why Chrome and not IE?
- Speed
- Drag and drop
- Search by voice(try it)
- Flash incorporated
- mono bar- search and address
- bookmarks star
- Popularity
- Google apps integration
- Apps Button
- Sign in and Synchronize
Task 1-- Download and Install Chrome
Task 2 -- Sign into chrome with your Google account
So all of your changes follow you!
Bookmarks bar
Task 3- Put the book marks bar on the browser
Task 4 - add a bookmark to the bar
Task 5 - add a folder for bookmarks
How would you use this with students?
Import Bookmarks and settings
Apps
Chrome store
Task 6 --Add an App form the Chrome Store
Rush City Technology- all about Chrome
Extensions
Adblock
WOT
Screencastify
Movenote
Web Page screenshot
Highlight to search
convert text to speech
snagit
Task 7 - add an extension to Chrome
Add Users
Setting >settings>users>add users
Advanced settings- Passwords and forms
Auto-fill forms
Offer to save passwords
Drive
Attach it or share it?
Take a while to wrap your brain around the difference!
Docs
Slides
Forms
Sheets
Drawing
Folders
Task 1- create a new folder
Up load
No space used up if you upload in Google format, but will do what ever format you want.
May need to download again to read depending on format.
Will open in drive if upload in Google or Microsoft or PDF formats
Task 2 - Upload a file or folder from your computer
Create--- Slides, sheets, form, doc, drawing or apps
Check it -- share, move, trash preview, open, or download
Shared recent starred offline(synchronize time involved) trash
Add ons
How can you see using this with students?
If we have time, let's watch: Managing your class with Google drive
Or you can use gClass Documents or Doctupus -- but these use scripts on a Spreadsheet
Embed videos with Google Drive
15 Effective ways to use Google Docs in class
You can edit MS office files using Google Drive
Docs
It's Just like Word Sort of.....
- Less load time
- Auto save on all time
- Less stuff to confuse the students and myself.
- Sharing is so cool!
- Research is so cool!
- the 'add on's are so cool!
- I didn't pay for it!
Name it ! Please?
File
Make a copy
Down load as-
Publish to the web
email collaborators
email as an attachment
Classroom uses for these?
Edit
The Web Clipboard
Find and replace
Insert
Image
Drag and drop or choose from my drive on my computer
Take a snapshot
By url
My albums (from Google + saved photos)
From you Google Drive
Search-- Be careful with kids here!
What will you have to say to students about these?
link
equation-- yes math problems - symbols- etc,.
Drawing
Table
Footnote -- easy! but not a bibliography here-- that comes later.
Comment-- on a student's work!
When would you use this?
Characters
Horizontal line
Page numbers
Table of Contents
Format- subscript, superscript, strike through, crop image,
line spacing
lists-- Choose your Outline style here
numbered list
bullet lists
Tools
Spelling - or right click and take the top one?
What Changes in teaching does this bring on?
Define - use to teach language?
Translate document- Tagalog kid!
Word Count -- Be careful how you assign they will check this!
Research -- This is a killer app!
everything , scholar, images, dictionary, quotes, tables
link, cite,
MLA, APA, Chicago
'Add on's--- Resources quickly there for writing
for example; Bible verse, thesaurus, Bibliography, Table of contents, Grammar critique,
Help-- keyboard short cuts
Right Click
Task 1 Add on Bible verse or another of the add on's
Task 2 Describe how Docs will help you meet standards and curricular goals. Use the shared document created by Mark. all need to contribute to the document!
Task 3 Write a one page paper on either balloons, bears, beans or belching.
12 point type, no more than 1 and a half spaced, with two images, two links, a quote, properly cited with footnotes; then share with me and at least one other person (Barb perhaps?)
Sheets
Let's make a graph!
Spreadsheets can do so much more but....
File-- share, download, publish to web, email collaborators, email as attachment
Insert,-- Function, Chart, Image, Link, Drawing
Charts
Candy count
Line, Area, column, bar, Scatter, Pie, Map, Trend, Gauge, table, Organizational Chart
Where would you have students make charts?
Task 1 enter some data and create a chart.
But there's more !
Add on's
Doctupus (video) For sharing documents and assignments with students in their own folders
Gooberic (video) For grading students with rubrics
Floobaroo
Forms
Start by filling out this form
Whoa! How could you use that in your class?
Where do the answers go? Here
How do I make my own?
Can I have them graded automatically?
When would you use a survey rather than a test or quiz?
Types of questions:
Paragraph
Text
multiple Choice
Choose from a list
Scale
Grid
Date
Time
Task 1: Now Its your Turn! Create a three question survey and send it to your colleagues!
Let's go over the results!
Multiple pages and the if/then scenario
Add images
Add video
Task 2: Now create a ten point quiz for your class. include a question with an image in it and a question with a video as a part of it. Again share with the group.
The summary of responses
View the live form
accepting responses
collect their address or name
Progress Bar
Are you ready to grade them automatically?
Floobaroo is for you!
Are you ready to try it?
Task three add Flubaroo as an add on.
Task four create a quiz, and an answer set or key, then collect answers from your fellow teachers, and grade it.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of this?