Google Apps for Education

Instructor: Cindy Bak

Face to Face Online

Welcome Video: https://tellagami.com/gami/6LSDCT/ Transcript: Welcome to our course on Google Apps for Education. My name is Cindy Bak and I’ll be your instructor for this 8-week course. We will meet both face to face and online and study various Google apps including the docs suite, calendar, and classroom. Please be prepared to collaborate and support one another throughout our course. I also want to remind you to keep a student-centered focus and be reflective on the potential of these apps to impact student learning. I look forward to learning with all of you in the next few weeks.

Welcome to the Course!

★ Topics of Study:○ Week 1: Google Drive○ Week 2: Google Docs ○ Week 3: Google Sheets○ Week 4: Google Slides ○ Week 5: Google Forms○ Week 6: Google Drawings○ Week 7: Google Calendar○ Week 8: Google

Classroom

Google Apps for Education★ Meetings:

○ Face to Face meetings - monthly

○ Online meetings through Google+ Hangouts - weekly

Meeting Norms

★ Face to Face Icebreakers○ Participants will play a Kahoot trivia game about

various California landmarks as an icebreaker ○ Participants will line up in alphabetical order by favorite

vacation spot and introduce themselves to the group★ Online Communication

○ Participants will engage in weekly discussion threads related to the topic of study

○ Instructor will also create a water cooler discussion thread for topics unrelated to the topic of study

○ Partipants will post their commitments to practice on Padlet during each weekly hangout

Strategies to build community

★ Closure○ Participants will conclude the 8-week course by

completing the Google Educator Exam○ The culminating project is to create a folder with

examples from each Google app and share via Drive★ Follow Up

○ Participants will stay connected on Twitter and encouraged to use #googlegeeks for their GAFE-related tweets

○ Participants will stay connected through a Google+ circle called “Google Geeks”

Closure & Follow Up