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Page 1: Google Apps for Education · PDF fileGoogle Apps for Education KET’s Multimedia Days! Lexington, Kentucky Donnie Piercey, Google Certified Teacher Eminence Independent Schools

Google Apps for Education

KET’s Multimedia Days! Lexington, Kentucky

Donnie Piercey, Google Certified Teacher Eminence Independent Schools

Follow me on Twitter: @mrPiercEy Classroom Blog: www.mrpiercey.com Plus: google.com/+donniepiercey

Want your students to have free access to all of these Google Apps… for free?

Get your district’s tech director to sign up here. Google Chrome

~ Google’s OS; helps to optimize your Google experience ~ has its own (mostly free) webstore ~ All apps, extensions, and search history are “in the cloud”, so wherever you login, they travel with you. ~ Oh, and it’s fast. Really fast.

Google Drive

­What is Google Drive? Google’s Cloud service: Create Documents, Spreadsheets, Drawings, Forms (Surveys) and more! Anything in your drive can be edited by up to 50 users at a time! You can even upload images, photos, gifs, and Microsoft Office files and automatically convert them to “Google Docs”. The Basics:

Make a document by clicking the big, red button

Here’s some Google Drive Basics For Beginners:

~ Creating documents, spreadsheets, and drawings ~ Try formatting a doc the same way you would in Word. ~ Digitally “Share” a document with your students (or have your students share their work with you!) ~ Have multiple students working on the same document at the same time ~ Have all of your students’ Google Accounts on a spreadsheet; share that spreadsheet with all of your team

teachers and students so they have everyone’s account. ~ Create an assessment for your students using Google Forms, score it using Flubaroo.

For Intermediates:

­Have a shared “Class Folder” that contains “view only” docs/images/study guides that your students can access throughout the year.

­Interactive Presentations (Research Topics)

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­Work with a team of teachers? Create a new doc from a template each week that can become your “Common Lesson Plan”. Have everyone contribute to it.

­ Digitally pass out papers to your students using Doctopus Add­on ­ Reading Comp Practice: copy and paste a passage (make sure to cite properly!) then paste link to a Google Form with questions down at the bottom

­ Run a class government? Having a class meeting? Have a student “Take the minutes” in a public Google doc that you can share with the world.

For the Advanced:

­Your students don’t have access to email, but you want them to fill out a Google Form? Paste a link to it on your classroom website, and have students access it through there.

­No email accounts for your students? Publish your Google Doc to the web or make it “Public” ­Fill out a form and have the results of it sent directly to parents using the Autocrat Add­on (Think about using

this as a weekly behavior report/progress monitoring). ­You can now comment on different parts of images! Check it out! ­You can embed student docs, presentations, spreadsheets, very easily with the “embed” code. Here’s a

sample project my students and I created using Google Drive and Blogger together. ­Teach Social Studies? Using Google Drive for Primary Sources

­ Text of the Declaration of Independence ­Snagit Chrome Extension on Google Drawing, upload to Youtube, paste onto a Google Doc. ­Substitute plan like a boss. Feeling sick one morning and don’t want to drive out to your classroom? Always

have an icon on your school desktop computer to a Public Google Doc that says “Sub Plans”. Have it be a link to a Doc that you can edit from home.

­Put the internet to work for you: make a doc “public” and then tweet its link out on Twitter. Put an in­class question at the top of the doc and watch it fill in. (Just make sure you use a educational hashtag with your tweet! #edchat, #KyEdChat, #sschat, etc...)

Google Drive Add­Ons

Developers from all over the world have created “Add­ons” that can help you automate your life using Google Apps. No, you don’t need to know anything about “coding” for the scripts to work; you just need to learn a few mouse clicks. Most Add­ons run through Google Forms/Google spreadsheets. Here’s some of the ones that I’ve used in my classroom

­Flubaroo Add­On → Instantly assess your students’ learning after they fill out a Google Form. There scores are emailed to them (or their parents!).

­Doctopus Add­On: Share assignments easily with your students using this Add­on. Works great with the

Goobric Chrome Extension! Adds rubrics to the end of student work easily. Props to Jay Atwood for the video ­Autocrat → You or your students fill out a Google form, results on the form are “merged” onto a doc that can be

emailed directly to whoever. I use this for parent communication, but others have used it for students to create custom assignments.

Chrome Extensions

→ What’s a Chrome Extension? Mini­Programs you can add to your Google Chrome browser that make life easier. Here are some of my favorites:

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→ Save to Google Drive Extension → Google Cast! Need to purchase a “Chromecast” from BestBuy first. Lets you stream any tab you want to a

projector. Apple TV is on upset alert! → SnagIt! → Capture and Annotate screenshots with ease. Can do Screencasting now! → Send This Link With Gmail → Screencastify (create free screen captures that upload to youtube with the click of the mouse) → Chrome to Mobile (send any link directly to your phone in one click) → Google Dictionary (double click on a word, learn its meaning. Great for students on Chromebooks!) → Awesome Screenshot (Capture images and annotate them, too!) → Google Translate (Does exactly what you think it does)

→ Google Link Shortener (shrinks really l o n g links with one click) → Announcify (Reads a web page to you) → Clearly (Gets rid of everything on a page but the text. Makes for easy reading) → ColorPick Eyedropper (tells you color number. Great for web page design. You can design a webpage color

scheme around famous works of art like this one). Props to Jim Sill for the idea! → One Tab (Puts your Chrome Tabs onto one page) → Goobric (allows you to add a rubric onto the end of a Google Doc. Works alongside the Doctopus Script) → Wolfram Alpha (Think of it as a STEM Search engine.) → MakeGIF Video Capture (Turns any youtube video into a GIF file) → Citable (Let’s you collect web resources easily onto one spreadsheet. Great for students doing research!) → Turn Off the Lights! (Makes everything go dark except for a video you’re playing). → Calendar (Always tells you how much time until your next event. Click to see week’s calendar) → Auto Refresh Plus (Auto reloads a page the amount of times you tell it to, 5 sec, 10 sec, etc. Great for sites

that has student data appearing on it) → Black Menu (Puts all the major Google Apps in one place) → Checker Plus for Gmail (Think of it as “notifications” for gmail) → Google Docs Quick Create (Make a doc, spreadsheet, drawing, right in your browser) → Tools for Google Maps (Measure Paths on Google Maps, get the distance between multiple points) → PullQuote (Grab a section of text, instantly share it out to a group of students via Social Media) → Name Generator (Instantly creates a name for a group of students. Great for those “indecisive” students!) → Google Voice (Call or text, right from your browser. Have to set up a Google Voice account first) → AdBlock Plus (Blocks annoying adds on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc) → Spreed (Kind of a weird one, but supposedly helps you “Speed Read” a webpage. Doesn’t work for me, but

worth a look/laugh!) …and for the ladies:

→ “Hey Girl”

Google+ → Google’s “Social Network” → Add the right people to your circles, best way to keep up with all things Google → Set your phone to “auto­upload” your photos to G+, document your year in your classroom → The #AutoAwesome photo feature is great, too! (Turn multiple photos into .GIFs)

→ more #AutoAwesome (Recognizes snow… makes it snow) → Posts can go right to your gmail… oh wait...

Google Newspaper Archive

→ Who needs Microfiche? Historical newspapers going back hundreds of years → Can link historical articles right onto your website.

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→ Can Search historical articles, too! Google News

→ Can customize news for you or your class. Great for current events in Social Studies! Google Cultural Institute

→ Explore art from the around the world, examine pieces close up, even view it in the galleries (like a “street view”)

→ Now with the Baseball Hall of Fame! Google Maps

­The entire map is now interactive ­Improved Directions (could be really cool for field trips!) including public transportation and flights! ­Now with Google Earth! ­New “Time Travel” feature in street view. Lets you go backwards in time to view images from up to 7 years

ago. ­Time lapse feature in Google Earth Engine. View 20+ years of historical imagery at once! ­Easily share and embed a map: great for sharing field trips! ­Google Maps Gallery

Google Maps Engine

­Google’s Free Map Creator ­Add custom pins, layers, directions, and now distances! ­Maps can then be shared just like Google Docs ­You can also view your creations in Google Maps

Sample Map ­Also very easy to embed on to blog or Google site. ­Have your students plan a field trip… and then take it!

Google Moderator

→ Give your audience/class a chance to ask questions for discussion. → Sample Moderator Questions

Youtube

→ Youtube Video Editor. Free video editor, difficult if Youtube blocked at school. Gives students access to free video editing everywhere else, though. Can do slow motion now.

→ Youtube Disco. Not exactly what you think it is, but a neat little trick → Youtube TV Turns Youtube into a TiVO... sort of.

Blogger

­Easy Parent Communication. Add the “Follow by Email” Widget to your blog, have parents on the first day of school type in their email address. Every time you make a post, it pops up in their email every day. (Usually sends around 7:00PM unless you change the time using Feedburner app).

­Create a separate blog for your nightly homework (example). Instead of writing your homework on the board each day, post it using blogger. Add the “Follow by email gadget” for parents.

­Add every link/game that you use in your instruction to your blog each day. Make sure you show students

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where the link is so they can play/see at home.

­Easy place to share Google Forms with students (especially if they don’t have email addresses). Each form has a direct link which you can link either to its own “page” or somewhere else on your website. Google Plus

→ Google’s Social Network; integrates great with gmail. It has discussion groups, communities, and some of the best photo store available. You get up to 15GB of storage just for having a Google account!

→ Add “Circles” of people to follow. Here’s my “Google Google People” Circle → Kentucky Google Educator Group → Join it here! → Autobackup photos from your iOS and Android Devices → #autoawesome Photos → Create your own Photospheres!

Google Hangouts

→ Move over Skype; Hangouts rule. Can have up to 10 people in a Google Hangout at once. Boom. → Do a “Hangout on Air” to instantly connect your students to the world. Hangouts on Air are uploaded live to

Youtube! → The hangout apps are great fun, too. Check out Panaramio for Social Studies.

Chromecast

→ Google’s $35 device that lets you stream any tab, Youtube video, Vimeo, Netflix, and a ton more apps for freeto your television OR classroom projector. Google Classroom

Google’s Learning Management System (LMS) will be released to the public this fall. Right now, it’s only in beta testing. Here’s a video to demo what it’s going to look like. Google Teacher Academy

2 Free Days of the best PD you’ve ever been to! Put in group with over 1000 innovative educators from around the world Have to make a one minute video and fill out an online app. My Application Video

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ Some other great apps/random Google stuff that are fun to play around with: Peanut Gallery 3D Solar System Class Dojo Spotify Web App Remind PicMonkey Docs Demo: Masters Edition Epic Google! Google Gravity Really Long URL Maker The Secret Door DocsStory Builder Webpage Screenshot Turn Off the Lights Docs Quickly Build with Chrome ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

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Thanks!

Donnie Piercey