Google Apps For Work - Presentation to Pulaski Area Chamber of Commerce

Today, Mrs. Uelmen and I are presenting Google Applications to local business owners.  We are focusing on three areas:

• What Are Google Apps?
• Who's Using Google Apps For Work
• How Would You Use Google Apps

Amy and I have been presenting together since 2010.  It's truly great to present with someone who is energetic, passionate, and knowledgeable.

App Launcher Customizer For Google

The black bar has been replaced by the Google App Rubric Cube.  There is a way to customize this bar to your liking.

•  Chrome Store > App Launcher Customizer
• Add To Chrome
• Click 3 x 3 App Launcher
• Bottom of Box > Configure
• Drag & Drop The Apps You Want To Show

View It

Google Drive Managing Apps

Google Template To Guide Students

If you are starting to produce more Google Documents, Sites, or Drawings to guide your students creativity and learning, consider using a template.

See how to submit a Google Template.


View students using Google Templates

Google Forms Major (Positive) Update

Google forms became a whole lot easier to use today.  Not sure how to use Google Forms, see below

• Paper Form to Google Form
• Explain Everything & Google Form
• For Formal Assessment
• Google Form Directs Reteaching
• For Peer Editing
• For Math Assessment
• Reflection & Analyzing In Math
• Classroom Checkout

See the changes!

Google Apps For Education Overview For STP

Professional Development - Choose Your Own Adventure

See how I carried out this concept.  Slide 98 starts the choose your own adventure.



Overall, I really liked:

• Teacher initiative to move forward on their own using the tutorials that I set up prior to the PD session
• The ability to learn from the participants items that they discovered on their own
• The opportunity to help those participants who needed more help
• The fact that participants did not need to wait for another participant who may slightly fall behind during the creation steps

I will continue to develop this concept when it comes to professional development sessions.

Single Paper To PDF To Google Doc Reduces Paper

As a long time math teacher with first year iPad experience, I find myself still using some drill and practice for certain math concepts.  I have been able to use some of the old math drill and practice problems by photocopying them on our copier.  Instead of paper, I choose email option and email the pdf to myself.  I then download the pdf attachment and upload it to Google Docs.

This provides the option for me to create a publishing URL and post it to our blog.

See the process...

Google Form And Images

I wish Google forms would allow embedding with images.  Since they don't and Safari now has tabbed browsing, I have modified it this way!

Staff Walkabouts

This week our school district is providing opportunities for staff who will be obtaining iPads for their classroom to view class periods that demonstrate effective integration of the iPad.

I created a list of iPad uses with our lessons in one of my math classes.

Google Doc Discovery By Student

Google docs continue to be a source of typing for our students.  Some error messages do exist on the iPad, but this student figured it out.



While it is true that a person can not bold, underline, and other cool features in a Google doc on an iPad, for basic word processing, Google docs on an iPad works fine.

Google Earth Used

Google Earth was a great tool to use while investigating the 1818 land acquisition of the Red River Basin.  It is one thing to see the old time pictures of the area, but I think it really gives a visual if students can see how it looks today.

Amazingly this is the first time our class has used Google Earth.  (I totally forgot to load it onto our iPads)

No Longer!  Let the discovery begin!

Review Game

Many tech tools were used during our review game.

• Scorekeeper XL
• Splashtop 
• Whiteboard LITE
• Google Presentation

The presentation was placed on our blog after class so that students could review on their own in the evening.

DEBATE? Google Groups Perfect Tool

As we continue to combine communication arts and social studies this year, a perfect marriage of the two contents comes in the form of debate and the U.S. Constitution.  We are setting up the great debate that is the writing of the Constitution by displaying proper debating techniques and discussing debate topics.

With this comes the opportunity to debate topics that are really not social studies related, but definitely topics that students can proclaim yes or no.

In order to "give every student a voice", I decided to try Google Groups.  I chose Groups because

• it was a closed, invite only forum that would allow our students to state their opinion without the entire world knowing.  
• a thread, reply type flow of conversation exists
• we are a GAFE 
• students didn't need to set up another account with another web service
• worked very smoothly on iPads

The Set Up:

• Create Your Group - keep private
• Invite members of class - used emails from contacts
• Edit my membership - all students should do this because they can read it on the web

View videos of Google Groups in action:

Conclusion:
We did openly talk about the different responses that students had by displaying the threads of responses on the SMARTboard.

Overall, Google Groups was a great tool for debating topics, worked well on the iPad, and engaged all students with a voice!

iPad For Rubric Evaluations!

I have found a way that allows me to be quite efficient in grading blog posts.  I use a laptop to view the blog posts and my iPad along with a Google form to complete the rubric.  View the images below to see iPad screen shots of the process.  In the screen shots I am using the Google app.

*note: I created the Google form on a laptop prior to using it on an iPad.
*note: I used Skitch to create the screen shots below - great app!

Google Form For Formal Assessment

In our study of the "Rise to (American) Revolution", we have emphasized to the students that they need to be able to tell the story.  We have completed several activities to help in this, including tweeting a timeline of events.

Today we used Google Forms to acquire the story from the students.  I liked the fact that all student response were organized neatly in a Google spreadsheet for assessing.

I will copy the student's writing and paste it into an email.  My comments will be in red so that they will know the corrections that need to be made.

No Paper!

Students Thinking Before "School"

I utilize every minute I can.  Today, I asked the students two questions in an email.  The students responded before the actual bell that starts our day.  They even seemed happy about it.  The questions were the following.
(some responses will be in a coming video)

1. How has technology changed the way you learn?
2. What do you most enjoy about the technology in our classroom?

Students Teaching Students Google App

A new strategy to continue the education of a Google App among students.

Google Form For Peer Editing

Our language arts/science teacher created a form that allowed for students to be quite productive in editing a student's paper.  See and hear how it works.  While this form is on a desktop other students were on iPad2s or Netbooks completing the editing.  THE EDITING FORM

Google Spreadsheet for Math Closure Activity

A very cool side note:  Student found and tweeted about a math resource that she found on the web...
RESOURCE HERE