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Google Docs in the Classroom
The document details the various applications of Google Docs in the classroom, emphasizing its collaborative and creative benefits for 21st-century education. It covers ways to utilize Google Docs for projects, data collection, and enhancing digital literacy among students. The document also discusses the functionality and cooperative capabilities of different Google tools, such as Google Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Form, and Drawing.
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Introduction to Google Docs and the presenter from Wilkes University.
Essential questions about Google Docs and their application in classroom settings.
Google Docs enhances collaboration, creativity, and productivity while being web-based and promoting critical thinking.
Diverse classroom applications of Google Docs such as writing prompts, collaborative homework, presentations, and managing information.
Information on Google templates, enabling teachers to create and reuse appealing documents effectively.
Overview of the Google Word Processor, allowing for synchronous collaboration, editing features, footnotes, and more.
The functionality of Google Spreadsheets for collaboration, data visualization, and enhanced data management.
Features of Google Presentations, including collaboration, publishing controls, and multimedia integration.
Google Forms functionalities for data collection, visual appeal, and collaborative student engagement.
The creative capabilities of Google Drawing, promoting visual literacy and infographic creation.
The ability to publish any document as a web page using Google Websites.
Invitation to begin creating different types of Google Docs.
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- 1. Google Docs Melanie Wiscount WilkesUniversity
- 2. Essential Questions • Whatare Google Docs? • How can each application in Google Docs be used in the classroom?
- 3. Google Docs isa Natural in the 21st Century Classroom • Collaborative • Creative • Productive • Online – cloud computing – the new Buzz word in education technology • Helps you be a facilitator • Teaches critical thinking among editors • Synchronous & Asynchronous • Web-based
- 4. Ways to UseGoogle Docs in the Classroom • Writing piece by one student (teacher acts as facilitator through the writing process) • Team project – Team, not group ;) • Collect data with a spreadsheet or form • Commensurate on a presentation • Creative with Google Drawing • Design a web page for a topic • ePortfolios
- 5. Ways to UseGoogle Docs in the Classroom • I am unique because... Writing prompt to get to know others in class • Collaborative homework • Collaborative class notes • Published presentation • Collaborate prior to a field trip • Create web pages of content • Collaborate and share with other teachers
- 6. Ways to UseGoogle Docs in the Classroom • Teach information management with folders • Peer edits • Use a document like a blog posting having students make additions (like comments on a blog) • Website evaluation with use of forms • Create widgets for blogs/wikis/Moodle/Webpage
- 7. Ways to UseGoogle Docs in the Classroom • Archive presentations with backchannel for review/relearn • Visual literacy with Google Doc Drawing • Integrate with links to documents with hyperlinks • Publish online to share • Create a webinar environment with presentation & chat
- 8. Ways to UseGoogle Docs in the Classroom • Group projects • Time management spreadsheets • Create documents to share with parents/guardians – Classroom Newsletter • Student Drop Boxes with use of folder • Note: Students need accounts
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- 10. Google Templates • Teacherscreate – Students save as a copy • Click on Teachers & Students for templates from other classroom • Create visual appeal to already created document • Critique already created Google Docs
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- 12. Google Word Processor •Up to 50 synchronous collaborators at one time • Up to 200 viewers/editors • Adding a table in this type of document aids collaboration • Readability – revert to old version (Settings>Editing) • Chat
- 13. Google Word Processor •Add footnotes – copyright, plagiarsm & citations • Insert comments • Create a draft or rough copy • Perfect for brainstorming with teacher and/or peers • Import, or Export, Embed or Publish
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- 15. Google Spreadsheet • Upto 50 synchronous collaborators at one time • Up to 200 viewers/editors • Create visualizations by importing data into spreadsheet and combine it with Exhibit • Couple with form for easy input
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- 17. Google Presentation • Upto 10 synchronous collaborators at one time • Up to 200 viewers/editors • Publish & control what they see and when they see it • Use a backchannel with chat
- 18. Google Presentation • Inlinevideos in chat window – YouTube and Google Videos • Inline images in chat window – Flickr and Picasa Web • Import, Export, Embed, or Publish
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- 20. Google Form • Upto 50 collaborators at one time • Collect data which can be viewed by the class with the corresponding spreadsheet • Very visually appealing • Have students create forms to collect data from peers which they can analyze • You can embed the form and not share the spreadsheet
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- 22. Google Drawing • Upto 50 collaborators at one time • Visual literacy • Students exhibit creativity • Create infographics
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- 24. Google Web Page •Any document can be published as a web page
- 25. Let’s Begin to Createa Google Doc of Every Type!