CLOUDUCATION. I have felt the frustration of trying to get a colleague to use Google Docs (or anything else cloud-based). I offer these tips for dealing with folks who could help you help them, if only they could easily collaborate with you: Breathe. Bludgeoning them with your cell phone until they have the IQ of a parakeet will not help.Understand that in the grand scheme of things, Google Docs is still “new” technology to many peopleUnderstand that LOTS of people have NO CLUE as to what Google Docs is when you mention it – they pretend to know by nodding along, but they have never seen it, maybe never heard it.Understand that Google Docs is 100 times easier to show than to describe. Show them. Try not to burst a capillary when they explain that they don’t have a Google account or Gmail.
Like this: Like Loading... The Landscape: Get Your Teachers Learning and Sharing with Google Blogger. Sharing is one of the most powerful tools that we as teachers have. Yet, most of the teachers in my school either don't see the value in it, or they are simply not interested in learning and sharing from each other. I am trying to find ways to get them inspired and motivated to WANT to learn and share with each other. However, this has been more challenging than I anticipated. Inspiration After reading What Ed Said: 10 Steps to Get Teachers Into Blogs, I became even more motivated and empowered to get my teachers learning and sharing together! Action Plan In order to get my colleagues sharing and learning with each other, I have been working with my Technology Specialist in my building.
How it Works Our district recently signed up for Google Apps in Education. How to Get Your Teachers to BlogIf you are interested in creating a blog post, watch this screencast demonstration that I created on how to use Google Blogger. Benefits of Blogging. The Innovative Educator’s Five Fave Ways to Create a Global Communication Center with Google. Whether you’re a classroom teacher or home educating family, you and the young people around you can collaborate with and connect to the world using Google tools. I’ve used numerous Google tools to connect to help myself and others connect to the world. I love using tools like Docs, Hangout, Goggles, Translate, Earth and more! To learn more, watch this video overview and share with others who are interested in using Google’s free tools to connect with the world. Then read about my fave five with a description of how to use each.
I love creating Google docs with others who share my passions and interests. Docs - Create and share documents on the web and access them from any internet enabled device. 3 - Google Translate Google Translate allows us to finally be able to communicate with others even if we don’t speak the same language via text or spoken word. You can find out about anything in the world with Google Goggles. 5 - Google Earth. 6 Sites To Get Kids Excited About Google Maps. I can remember three distinct occasions in my life where I have been blown away by technology. I will save the first two for another day, but I will say that the amazing experience of walking the streets of New York, from my computer on the other side of the world in Australia is definitely one of them. That feeling of disbelief where you wonder if it is another April 1st prank… What, they actually drove a little car all around the city taking photos???
But they did… And they continue to do so. Google Maps started as a downloadable C++ program designed by two Danish brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen. Since being acquired by Google in 2004, the program turned web app, has seen massive innovation and is now a tool used in nearly ever industry imaginable. Here are six brilliant sites that use Google Maps to make fascinating, interesting, fun and thought provoking things happen.
Google Sightseeing Google Sightseeing lets you see the sights of the world without leaving your chair. MapCrunch. Blog Archive » How I made the Google Slide Show. Posted by Allanah King on February 1, 2012 People have wondered how I made the Google Presentation ‘Five Things My Teacher Needs to Know About Me‘ for my class. So I thought I would share how I did it here. I just made a Google presentation under my own account- then I made a slide for each student. I made sure it was open for everyone to edit without a log in. Then put a link to that presentation on the blog so the children would know where to find it.
Children then went to the blog, clicked on the link, found their slide and filled it in. When everyone has done editing I then close it off by making it so no one can edit it so no cherub could wreck it and write stuff in the holidays that I didn’t know of. I then put the html embed code on the blog so it would play there. If all that seems a bit tricky then I have made a three minute tutorial on how to do it. At Learning at School Kevin Honeycutt suggested that we make learning rewindable- here I have done just that. Collaborative Writing using Google Apps (Google Docs) | Fiendishlyclever. The Google Apps Mail Merge Solution You’ve Been Looking For. EdReach note: This is a guest post by Dr. Henry Thiele, Chief Technology Officer of District 207 in Park Ridge, IL. Dr. Thiele is a Google Certified Teacher, Administrator, and Trainer, and is an evangelist for personalization of learning through technology.
You can follow him on Twitter @henrythiele . As we gather more data using Google Forms and Spreadsheets there are a lot of questions out there about how we can reformat and share this data in a more consumable understandable way. In the last couple of months the Maine 207 technology team of Mark Ordonez and Janice Cacciatore and Hank Thiele have tackled this issue on several projects and as a result have created a reproducible Google Script that takes the information off a spreadsheet and ultimately creates a unique document that can be shared with anyone.
Typical Spreadsheet view of Data: Reformatted Merged Document View Posted by: 4,445 views, 1 today What do you think?