Transcript Google Apps for Education

Daniel Christian
August 18, 2014
Google’s product offerings in education
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Chromebooks (will reach 5.2 million this year)
Tablets
Google Play for Education
Google Classroom (as of 8/12/14)
• Google Apps for Education  the focus of our discussions this morning
Agenda
• A brief look at each of the Apps for Education
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What does each app do?
When and why would you use that app?
How we are using that app (if applicable)
Discussion of how you are using that app (if applicable)
Other tools from Google
Resources for Google & Education
Some general resources on ed tech
Q&A throughout
Google Apps for Education
• Apps included may change over time
• Vault was added since I took above screenshot, for example
• Perhaps due to timing of introduction of Classroom
• Cloud-based
• Just need Internet access and an account at Google
Mail
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Send/receive electronic mail
Search your emails
Create/color folders
Label/mark emails (Priority)
Launch chat/videochat sessions
Call others
Spam filtering
Available on PCs, Macs, iOS &
Android devices
Mail
• Use it for communications
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Text
Graphics
Attachments
Voice
• Can use the translate feature
to communicate with parents
in different languages
Contacts
• Enter addresses
• Add contacts
• Create groups & mailing lists
• Import from Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Mac
Mail Programs
• Gmail auto-completes for email addresses in your
Contact Manager
Hangouts
• “Conversations that come to
life. Anytime, anywhere, for
free.”
• Photos, text, video calls
• Can be like Skype –
videoconferencing & group
conversations
• Up to 10 people on a video call
• Works on PCs, Macs, iOS &
Android devices
Calendar
• “Organize your schedule and
share events with friends”
• Overlay calendars to see
when you can meet w/
others
• Create group calendars
• Share calendar with others
• Can use calendars to check
out resources (laptop cart)
• Create pacing guides
Documents
• Open/edit/create documents,
spreadsheets, presentations, &
forms
• Work individually or
collaboratively on an item
• Share documents w/ others
• Available on PCs, Macs, iOS &
Android devices
Documents
• Some examples of how teachers are using Google Docs & Drive include:
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Collaborate and share lesson/curriculum plans
Consolidate notes for department or faculty meetings
Share and collect assignments without printing
Provide instant feedback to students
Publish student work
Track instructional interventions
Translate letters home for parents
Sign up sheets (parent-teacher conferences, guest lectures, other)
Documents
• Some examples of how students can use online documents:
• Improve writing skills through peer editing and feedback
• Access documents in class or at home
• Work on reports, research or papers together w/ peers in different classes,
schools or countries
• Keep a continuous, running log for assignments such as journal entries or
writing samples
Documents: Forms
• Poll your class
• Tally information
• Have your students track where they are in
the Writing Process
• Brainstorming, pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing,
publishing, etc.
• Ask Q’s of your community
• Poll local scientists in science class, gather data with the
intention of plotting the answers on a graph in math class,
give students a pre-test in PE, etc.
Documents: Forms
• Create surveys
• Teacher observation forms
• Reading records can be completed online;
track the books your students have read
Drive
• “Create, share and keep all your
stuff in one place”
• Cloud-based, i.e., just need an
Internet connection to use
• Available on PCs, Macs, iOS &
Android devices
Sites
• Build a website for your class w/out
having to know how to code or work
w/ HTML
• Build sites to share & collaborate on
documents, embed videos, schedules,
& more
• Can open a site up to the public as well
• Customizable look and feel
• Dozens of pre-built templates
• Settings for accessing & sharing info
Sites
• Showcase students’ work
• Single-click page creation
• Choose different page types,
such as webpage, dashboard,
announcements, file cabinet,
& list
Groups
• Create discussion groups
• Useful for asynchronously discussing a
topic
• At folks’ convenience
• Include links to resources
• Could be for announcements for
classes, departments, or committees
• Post messages on the group page
• See archived postings
Other products/tools from Google
• Click on the icon that has 3 rows
of dots and 3 columns of dots
• Click on More
• Click on Even more from Google
Examples of other products/tools from Google
Media
YouTube: Watch, upload and share videos
Google Play: Your music, movies, books, and Android apps available anywhere
Books: Search the full text of books
Image Search: Search for images on the web
News: Search thousands of news stories
Picasa: Find, edit and share your photos
Specialized Search
Finance: Business info, news and interactive charts
Scholar: Search scholarly papers
Trends: Explore past and present search trends
Geo
Maps: View maps and directions
Earth: Explore the world from your computer
Examples of other products/tools from Google
MISC:
Helpouts: Get help on a wide range of topics from experts over live video
Maps for mobile: View maps, your location and get directions on your phone
Voice: One number for all your phones, online voicemail and cheap calling
Google Cloud Print: Print anywhere, from any device
Google+: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web
Blogger: Share your life online with a blog - it’s quick, easy and free
Other products/tools from Google: Alerts
• “Get email updates on
the topics of your
choice”
• “Monitor the web for
interesting new
content”
• Google Alerts help you
pulse-check things
Other products/tools from Google: Translate
• Language
detection and
translation
Other products/tools from Google: Classroom
• Classroom is a new tool – a Learning
Management System – that’s
integrated with Google Apps for
Education
• Just made available on 8/12/14
• Create & organize assignments
• Provide feedback
• Communicate with your classes
• Helps students organize their work in
Google Drive, complete and turn in
assignments, & communicate directly
with teachers & peers
Other products/tools from Google: Classroom
• There's not an iPad
app for Google
Classroom; students
use a web interface
• The web interface
allows students to
turn in any
assignment or file
that is in their Google
Drive account
Other products/tools from Google: Analytics
• See the usage of your
website or blog
• Where your site’s
visitors are located
• Top pages
• # users
• # of pageviews
• New vs returning
• Pathways through site
• What your users are
looking for
Resources for Google & Education
Resources for Google & Education
Re: Google’s Chromebooks
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http://www.schrockguide.net/chromebooks.html
A variety of postings at edudemic.com re: Chromebooks
A variety of postings at GettingSmart.com re: Chromebooks
A variety of postings at KQED.org (Mind/Shift) re: Chromebooks
Chromebooks & Chromeboxes for education — google.com
http://www.scoop.it/t/chromebook-for-education
The RSS feed for the Chrome Show
New Excellent Google Drive Guide for Teachers and Students — educatorstechnology.com | June 16, 2014
The Chromebook vs. iPad Debate | Technology in Music Education — techinmusiced.wordpress.com by
Christopher Russell
Google Art Project
OPINION: Why We Are Misunderstanding the Chromebook-iPad Debate — edsurge.com by Tim Holt
A Response to Joshua Kim’s ’3 Reasons Why Chromebook Beats iPad in 1:1 Programs’ – edsurge.com by Tim Holt
Google Educator Groups: http://www.google.com/landing/geg/
Ed tech resources: 50 K-12 bloggers to check out
http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2014/06/2014honor-roll-edtechs-must-read-k-12-it-blogs
Blogs about K-12 Next Gen Learning
From http://nextgenlearning.org/blog/top-10-blogs-about-k-12-next-gen-learning
Other interesting items
Augmented Reality
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Augmented Reality: 32 resources about using it in education – from mediaspecialistsguide.blogspot.com by Julie Greller
Augmented Reality is going mobile--and coming to a classroom near you – from by Jennifer Demski
Zientia: Changing the Way We Learn with Augmented Reality — from realareal.com by Kiran Voleti
AR Music APP Enchantium by DAQRI — from realareal.com by Kiran Voleti
colarapp.com
Practical ideas for using augmented reality in contextual mobile learning — from blog.commlabindia.com by Aruna Vayuvegula
Enchantium is a 4D platform that uses augmented reality — from realareal.com by Kiran Voleti
6 exciting developments in Augmented Reality – from atlargeinc.com
AWE 2013: Six Trends in Augmented Reality – from arblog.inglobetechnologies.com
Disney partners with toy company, LA billionaire to make augmented reality toy app — from polygon.com by Alexa Ray Corriea
AR Dinopark - Augmented Reality Dinosaurs -- from arnews.tv
Aurasma’s 3D-I augmented reality of physical worlds by inserting 3D objects — from electrictv.com
Augmented Reality for Chemists – from electrictv.com
http://augmentedblog.wordpress.com/
http://www.metaio.com/
Other interesting items
Maker Spaces
• Makerspaces as classrooms: schools and hardware shops partner – from
technical.ly by David Ziegler
Today, the flourishing of makerspaces in Philadelphia is intersecting with a local tech
community commitment to growing STEM learning in schools to bring about new goals
in how science and math can be learned in area classrooms.
• Are hackathons the classrooms of tomorrow? My journey to the frontier of
education — from chronicle.com by Brian Mathews
• Makerspaces and Online Education — from onlinecolleges.net by Melissa
Venable; with thanks to Steve Wheeler and Stephen Harris for the Tweets on this
• The Student Side of Making — from edutopia.com by Gayle Allen
• 6 Strategies for Funding a Makerspace — from edutopia.org by Paloma GarciaLopez
• Project-Based Learning Through a Maker’s Lens — from edutopia.org by Patrick
Waters
• The DIY World of Maker Tools and Their Uses – from edutopia.org by Vicki Davis
Thanks for your time!
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