At the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester, MA teachers and administrators are using the suite of applications from Google to enhance communications and collaboration. This video documents the use of the application both in and outside the classroom.
الاثنين، 23 ديسمبر 2013
How To Start Using Google Apps In Education
? how can I use Google Apps in my teaching
To showcase the management advantage of Google Apps, I will highlight an example of how I use Google Apps in my own instruction. Currently, I am a student teacher and thus working within the classroom set up of another educator. By extension, I have much more restriction in terms of how much I can infuse technology into my practice. I am not in a position to empower my students to use technology independently, I do however, use Google Apps to plan for the Civics course which I lead teach.
To do this, I first created a folder in my Google Drive (you can think of this like a storage space on the internet versus on the hard drive of your computer) titled ‘Civics’. Within the Civics folder I created a Google Spreadsheet where I have all my lesson plans for the entire course. In this Spreadsheet, I have the long term vision of where I want to go with the course, daily lesson plans broken up under tabs for each unit, links to the different resources I want to use for each lesson, and reflections I have made about how well certain lessons or activities went and how they can be improved. In addition to my planning spreadsheet, I also create and store all my assessments, activities, notes, or otherwise related ideas in the Civics folder and add to them as I go along teaching the course. Once I finish a unit, I put all related documents to that unit under a sub-folder titled ‘Unit One – American and Civic Identity’ or the appropriate unit number. Everything I used for my Civics class can be found in my Civics folder on my Google Drive.
The fact that I have all of this in one place is great because when, as an in-service teacher, I get the chance to teach the course or one similar to it, I will have immediate access to everything that I had already worked on related to Civics. Additionally, I will be able to make changes to the activities I made before and thus continuously enhance and develop my instructional tools as I grow in the profession. I will be able to build and add to my previous experience instead of starting from scratch every time I teach a course.
This snapshot of how I am currently using Google Apps in my practice is not the end all or be all of Google’s usefulness in the classroom.The most powerful aspect of Google Apps that has been significant to my teaching is its exponential potential for growth within my practice. If your school has incorporated an online grading system, but you still have everything written out on your calendar, and you have students handing in large papers or homework periodically, you already know how easily you (and a couple of student papers) can get lost in the shuffle. With Google Apps, you can centralize all of those things in one place. You can have students utilize Google Docs to write their papers and then give them feedback instantly by commenting directly on their document. You can utilize Google Calendar to put all your dates in one place and then share that with students so that they can know when things are coming up. You can even synchronize both your docs and calendar across the whole school so that if the administration needs to update anything it will automatically show up across your Google products. Really, once you begin using Google Apps you start discovering that there are always more things to try and more room to grow.
Maybe not right now
have not yet helped my students utilize technology in their own learning process because I am not working in my own classroom. What is great about Google Apps though, is that when I am ready for that step, I can easily begin incorporating different Apps into my direct instruction of students. If right now you feel unable or overwhelmed by the idea of having to incorporate technology not only into your behind-the-scenes practice, but also directly with students, Google Apps is perfect for you. It gives you that space to grow comfortable with using one tool and then moving on to another one. Because Google Apps are so centralized, the more you gain familiarity with one tool, the more it will aid you in your use of other tools in the future.There is no rush then. Maybe right now you are not ready to transform your class into a technology haven, but you recognize the need for students to learn with technology. With Google Apps, as you grow in your own learning of technology, then you will be able to help your students grow with their own. Want to learn more?Click here to get started.
الأحد، 15 ديسمبر 2013
Examples Of Google Apps For Education
| Application | What is it |
|---|---|
 | Gmail is Google's web-based email program, which provides users with over 7 gigabytes of storage, fast Google search, and powerful spam protection. Your email address will be yourElonusername@elon.edu. |
 | Google Docs is an online application that lets you create and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and drawings. Documents are automatically saved and stored online, so you never have to worry about losing an important document. Sharing a document is as easy as sending a link - no more keeping track of multiple email attachments. |
 | Google Calendar is a fast and simple online calendar application. It lets you see your whole schedule in context - you can easily share and connect your calendar with those of your friends, classmates, and anyone else at Elon. |
 | Google Talk is a clean, easy-to-use application for instant messaging and voice/video calls using computers. Google Talk is integrated in the Gmail interface, so you can easily switch between chatting and emailing. |
 | Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a team website as easy as editing a document. With Google Sites, people can quickly gather a variety of information in one place including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text - and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, their entire organization, or the world. |
What is Google Apps For Education
Google Apps for Education is a package of online applications that makes communicating and collaborating at school easier and more efficient. The cornerstone of Google Apps is Gmail, Google's web-based email program, which integrates with Google Docs, for creating and sharing documents, and Google Calendar, for coordinating schedules. All of these services are hosted online, so email, documents,
and calendars are always accessible from any computer
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