Day 2 - Google Apps workflow, Docs, Slides, Sites, and Draw
Morning Session
Goal: Create several enhanced Google Docs to use with your students.
Goal: Create several enhanced Google Docs to use with your students.
Q. In what ways can you get a document to a student?
Tip - Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + /
Tip - Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + /
1. Enhanced Google Docs
Key features to discover today include:
Activity - Work as a table group to collaboratively complete the Internet Scavenger Hunt document found in the shared folder.
Ideas for using Google Docs with students:
Examples: Interactive worksheet addressing multiple skills, Eric Curts Google Docs tutorial, Technology Use Policy (Elementary)
Key features to discover today include:
- Full screen editor
- Publishing to the web (Details)
- Research Tool (Details)
- Smart Spell Checker with Grammar Support
- Integrated Reference Tools
- Insert Equations (Details)
- Improving the Writing Process (Details)
- Suggested edits
- Revision History & Autosave (Details)
- Templates (creating and finding)
- Generate a Table of Contents (Details)
- Adding a Bookmark (Details)
- Add-ons
- Sharing and Commenting (more) for Collaboration and Immediate Feedback
Activity - Work as a table group to collaboratively complete the Internet Scavenger Hunt document found in the shared folder.
- One person in your group should rename the document using a "team name"
- Share it so that I can view it
- Turn in the link to the INBOX.
Ideas for using Google Docs with students:
- Grade level/staff meeting notes
- Collaborative backchannel during a presentation
- Have students use commenting feature to pose questions to the author
- Grade levels/content areas share lesson plans and resources districtwide
- Brainstorming session, what one word comes to mind when I mention . . . Abraham Lincoln? Generates essay topics and themes
- Create comment templates to save time. Ask students to respond to your comments prompting a discussion.
- Challenge students to work collaboratively from home/off campus
- Simultaneous feedback - students share their doc with you via form, you open all in tabs
- Use revision history to demonstrate and promote the writing process
- Import content from web sources and create an interactive lesson
- Keep reading response/writing journals in a shared folder and comment throughout the year.
- Use "translate" to decode text, especially valuable in history as primary source material
- Create multiple rubrics to implement as needed
- Students collaboratively edit each other's writing - color code
Examples: Interactive worksheet addressing multiple skills, Eric Curts Google Docs tutorial, Technology Use Policy (Elementary)
Assignment: Using the writing tips and tricks discovered this morning, turn this primary source document into an interactive lesson that any student would be thrilled to complete. The lesson cannot span more than two pages.
Afternoon Session
2. Google SLIDES
Key features to discover:
Examples: First grade Google search lesson, Choose your own adventure, Jeopardy, online comic strip, student book talk
2. Google SLIDES
Key features to discover:
- Presentations in the classroom (Details)
- Edit and format slides (Details)
- Tools and animations (Details)
- Preview, present, or print a presentation (Details)
- Comments in presentations (Details)
- Share and present your presentations (Details)
- Streamline back-to-back presentations (Details)
- Design presentation templates for meetings or classes (Details)
- Easily conduct research using the Research Tool (Details)
Examples: First grade Google search lesson, Choose your own adventure, Jeopardy, online comic strip, student book talk
3. Google Sites and Google Draw
Key features to uncover include:
Examples: First grade and Google, Visual planner, Pre-write, Infographics, 4th grade student portfolio, 5th grade state report, high school class website, West Africa Project
It is very important that teachers have a presence on the Internet. Please consider creating a classroom website or blog to share student work and resources. Some alternatives to Google Sites include Weebly, Kidblog, Blogger, and Edublogs.
Key features to uncover include:
- Drawings in the classroom (Details)
- Creating a new drawing (Details)
- Using the Research Tool in drawings (Details)
- Using drawings with Docs, Sheets, and Slides (Details)
Examples: First grade and Google, Visual planner, Pre-write, Infographics, 4th grade student portfolio, 5th grade state report, high school class website, West Africa Project
It is very important that teachers have a presence on the Internet. Please consider creating a classroom website or blog to share student work and resources. Some alternatives to Google Sites include Weebly, Kidblog, Blogger, and Edublogs.