Google+in+the+Classroom+July+2013

= in the Classroom = ||
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// **Wednesday, July 17, 2013** //
 * Summer 2013 Professional Development **

//** Objectives: **//

 * Learn what Google has to offer for use in your classroom.
 * Generate ideas how Google apps can be used in your classroom.
 * Get hands-on experience with some of the tools.

Pre-Session Activity - Please Do!

 * 1) Go to @http://www.google.com/accounts. If you already have an account, go to @https://www.google.com/accounts/Login.
 * 2) Click on "Create an Account".
 * 3) Complete the new account page.
 * 4) Go back to the Google Accounts or google.com page and sign in.

= Part I: Google Tools for Collaboration and Communication Across the Curriculum =

Google Docs

 * **What is it?**// *Video:Teachers & Principals Talk About Google Docs //
 * Google Docs is a free online word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation editor that allows you to create, store, share, and collaborate on documents with others.
 * Setting Up Accounts
 * Creating an Account for Google Docs
 * Creating Accounts for Students
 * A word about Google Drive, the new home for Google Docs
 * Use Google Drive to Create a Student Portfolio from an iPad
 * About Google Drive Storage Space
 * The Step-by-Step iPad Paperless Workflow for Teachers Using Google Drive
 * 25 Tips and Tools to Make Google Drive Even Better


 * **Why use it?**
 * How Could You Use Google Docs in Your Classroom?
 * Read&Write Extension for Google Docs (Available only for Chrome Browser in Chrome Web Store) **Note: As of August 1, 2013, this extension is only available for a fee. It is no longer free.)
 * Reviewing Documents - Giving Feedback
 * Use Flubaroo to Create a Self-Grading Quiz // *Video:How to Use Flubaroo //
 * Let's See How it Works!


 * **Instructional Ideas:**
 * Teaching the Collaborative Writing Process
 * Create Online Quiz/Test (Sample Student Information Form)
 * More Ideas for Using Forms by Tom Barrett
 * Integrating Google Tools 4 Teachers
 * 50 Little-Known Ways Google Docs Can Help in Education
 * 5 Ways to Use Google Docs in the Classroom

Activity One

 * Team 1
 * Team 2
 * Team 3
 * Team 4

Google Groups

 * **What is it?**
 * Google Groups is a free, online service that helps groups of people easily share information and communicate effectively. Starting in January 2011 Google Groups will focus on mailing lists and forum discussions.
 * Learn More


 * **Why use it?**
 * **Google Teacher Center**
 * **Google for Educators Discussion Group**


 * **Instructional Ideas:**
 * Set up a parent-child book club
 * Create an online study group
 * Hold online discussion to enhance class time

Google Sites

 * **What is it?** // *Video: Introduction to Google Sites //
 * Google Sites is a tool that allows students and teachers to create custom web pages, adding content, attachments, and embedded media from many other services, including Picasa Web Albums, YouTube video and Google Docs.


 * **Why use it?** // *Video: Google Sites Tour //
 * Students can use Google Sites to:
 * Manage a to do list for their assignments and activities.
 * Create a personal portfolio of their work.
 * Collaborate and share ideas with other students for group work and peer tutoring.
 * Teachers can use Google Sites to:
 * Create a class web page, including handouts and tutorial videos.
 * Collaborate with other teachers on department or school-wide projects.
 * Manage a international project that connects teachers and students around the world. Ask students to create pages about subjects they are interested in.


 * **Instructional Ideas:**
 * Example: Mrs. Richau's English Class
 * Example: School Ski Club
 * Politics Civics Literacy
 * Create a public website for posting announcements, a calendar of events, reading and spelling lists, weekly themes, fun stuff and more.
 * Create a private site to share information with parents, like curriculum resources.
 * Even More Ideas
 * //Note: Students must be 13 or older to have a Google Account to add content to Google Sites or to view private sites.//

Google +

 * **What is it?** * // Video: Google + A Quick Look //
 * Google+ makes connecting on the web more like connecting in the real world, providing new ways for students and faculty to find, share and connect online -- both inside and outside the classroom. It's a social network.
 * Using Google+ in Education
 * Google+ Help
 * Google+ Cheat Sheet


 * **Why Use it?** // *Video: What is Google + and Do I Really Need it? //
 * Circles
 * 50 Google+ Circles Teachers Should Know About
 * Pages
 * Communities (*New!): 4 options
 * Integration of Google Apps in one place: search, calendar, photos, events
 * Hangouts
 * Google in Education
 * Edudemic
 * Edutopia
 * Mobile app


 * **Instructional Ideas:**
 * Create a Google+ community for each class where you can post homework assignments, hold discussions, etc.
 * Create Google+ Pages for classes to share homework updates, the latest news on the course topic, or interesting ideas and articles
 * Use Hangouts to hold virtual office hours, or collaborate on a project
 * Use Hangouts to bring in speakers from around the world to your class.
 * Post discussion items and assignments in the Stream
 * Encourage students to comment on content you have shared to foster class engagement on topics of interest.
 * 10 Ways to Use Google+ in the Classroom
 * Google Plus for Educators

Activity Two

 * Click on this link to fill out a form that will generate an invitation for you to join the Google+ SDP Google Training Community.
 * An invitation will be sent to your email account. Please access your email account and click on the link to accept the invitation to join the community.
 * The rest of this activity is posted on the community page.

= Part II: More Google Tools for Use Across the Curriculum and Research =

Google Earth

 * **What is it?**
 * Google Earth is a free, downloadable application that combines satellite imagery,maps, 3D terrain and 3D buildings to create a highly realistic virtual globe.
 * If you don't have it, you can get it here: @http://www.google.com/earth/index.html


 * **Why use it?**
 * Fly to the sky (Toolbar -> Sky)
 * View historical imagery (Toolbar -> Time Slider) Hurricane Sandy
 * View 3D buildings (Layers) // *Video: New 3D Imagery for Google Earth //
 * Draw and measure (Toolbar -> Ruler)
 * Create a tour


 * **Instructional Ideas:**
 * Google Lit Trips
 * Lesson Plans
 * Google Earth Lessons
 * Tutorials
 * Google Earth: 50 Exciting Ideas for the Classroom
 * Teaching with Google Earth in the GeoScience Classroom
 * Google Earth - Integrating Google Tools 4 Teachers
 * Panoramio: // *Video: Discover the World Through Photos //
 * // *Video: Panoramio and Google Earth Part I //
 * // *Video: Panoramio and Google Earth Part II //
 * Using Google Earth in the Science Classroom

Google Maps

 * **What is it?**// *Video: Google Maps - An Introduction //
 * Google Maps is an intuitive service for navigating global maps information. It enables you and your students to look up and study addresses anywhere in the U.S. and in many other countries and get point-to-point, draggable directions plotted on an interactive street map.
 * http://maps.google.com


 * **Why use it?**
 * Students can use Google Maps to:
 * Keep track of class pen pals.
 * Take virtual tours of countries where a language they are studying is spoken. (Include planning for local transportation, site-seeing, dining and hotel reservations!).
 * Learn about animal and plant life by embedding information in maps of different habitats.
 * Teachers can use Google Maps to:
 * Plan a field trip with students.
 * Create a map of the school or school events for parents.
 * Teach history by embedding primary documents into interactive maps for students to explore.


 * **Instructional Ideas:**
 * How to Use Google Maps in the Classroom (note: YouTube videos)
 * Maps - Integrating Google Tools 4 Teachers
 * More ideas
 * Google Teacher Academy Resources
 * **Play a Map Game **Here's a game you can play as an entire class. Divide your students into groups if necessary so that each group has access to a computer. Give each group a list of five historical landmarks around the world, and have them find and print aerial photographs of the landmarks on their list. Judge the winner based on the speed and accuracy with which they found their items.

Activity Three
// *Video: Google Maps - How to Create a MyMap in Google Maps //
 * Click here for instructions.

**Google News**
 * **What is it?** // *Video: About Google News Updates //
 * Google News brings together news from thousands of different sources from around the world and makes them available in a single place.


 * **Why Use it?** // *Video: Google News, More than Just Top News Stories - A Powerful Research Tool //
 * Students can use Google News to:
 * Compare and contrast current events from a variety of sources.
 * Find primary documents related to historical events over the past 200 years.
 * Access the news from their mobile phones – no computer lab required.
 * Teachers can use Google News to:
 * Personalize their news page to stay informed on topics they teach.
 * Search the news for stories relevant to a particular day’s lesson.
 * Model for students how to examine bias and reliability in the news.


 * **Instructional Ideas:**
 * Create a "The World This Week" photo poster.
 * Students compare and contrast articles on a single event from different sources - nationally and/or internationally.
 * Provide foreign language reading and translating material from authentic sources.
 * Twenty-five Great Ideas for Teaching Current Events

Picasa

 * **What is it?** // *Video: Introducing Picasa 3 //
 * Picasa is a free application that helps you instantly organize, edit and share all the pictures on your PC or Mac.
 * Get Picasa: @http://picasa.google.com/
 * Picasa is also integrated with Google+ on the web


 * **Why use it?**
 * Anything you can do in iPhoto, you can do in Picasa.
 * Picasa is free for both Mac and Windows.
 * Many students are visual learners.
 * Students can use Picasa to:
 * Organize and manage photos for projects and reports.
 * Quickly edit photos and other images.
 * Share photos of school events with friends and family.
 * Teachers can use Picasa to:
 * Create an album for each student.
 * Quickly create a slideshow for open house.
 * Share field trip photos online for parents.


 * **Instructional Ideas:**
 * Take pictures of student work, presentations, or field trips throughout the year and quickly turn them into a slideshow that you can play at open house or during parent conferences.
 * Students can create a historical photo album by taking pictures of themselves in historical costumes and settings.
 * Journalism students can keep all photos for each edition of their newspaper or magazine in one location on their classroom PC, adding descriptions and captions that make them easy to find, re-use, and share.

Activity Four

 * Click here to access instructions for this activity.

SketchUp

 * **What is it?**
 * Google SketchUp is a drawing and 3-D model building software application that is free.
 * SketchUp for Educators
 * Video: SketchUp in the Classroom


 * **Why use it?** // *Video: Create Cool Stuff with Google SketchUp //
 * Students can use SketchUp to:
 * Visualize geometry and other mathematical concepts.
 * Model buildings and learn about architectural design and engineering.
 * Design interiors, landscapes, and buildings in 3D.
 * Easily share their designs with others via the web.
 * Teachers can use SketchUp to:
 * Engage students who are more adept visual learners.
 * Introduce the world of 3-dimensional design.
 * Illustrate geometry and other mathematical concepts.
 * Help students learn to model existing real world buildings, such as local historical or school buildings, and geo-locate them in Google Earth.


 * **Instructional Ideas:** // *Video: Getting Started with Google SketchUp //
 * Students design and create their own castle.
 * 3D Vinci
 * Teach 2D and 3D geometry concepts in math.
 * Students design and create green living spaces.

Google Search

 * **What is it?**
 * Google Search is the world's largest search engine and easy-to-use service for free that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of seconds. // *Video: Google Search Features //
 * Google Search Help
 * Search Stories: An Introduction
 * Search Story: Zack Matere
 * Search Story: Cheryl & Morgan
 * The Knowledge Graph
 * // *Video: Explore Lists and Collections with Google Search //
 * // *Video: Introducing the Knowledge Graph //


 * **Why use it?** // *Video: Google Web Search Strategies in Plain English //
 * Students can use Google Search to:
 * Research class topics.
 * Find pages similar to ones that are relevant to their school work. Simply click “similar pages” below a successful search result.
 * Search for images to use in multimedia projects.
 * Search the web right from their mobile phones.
 * Teachers can use Google Search to:
 * Translate web pages for English Language Learners.
 * Search for instructional materials in specific file formats including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF.
 * Use Google’s “Safe Search” settings to restrict the search results on student computers. On the Google homepage, just click the small “Preferences” link next to the search bar.


 * **Instructional Ideas:**
 * Google Search for Educators - Classroom Lessons and Resources (including A Google A Day presentations)
 * Teaching Search in The Classroom 54 minute webinar video posted on YouTube (//Watch @ home!//)
 * Fifteen Lesson Plans for Making Students Better Online Researchers
 * Use an inquiry-driven approach: When students ask a question, assign a student to search for the answer and share with class.
 * Try to Ace a Class:
 * Calculate anything
 * Get definitions
 * Search by file type
 * Find related pages
 * Get number conversions
 * Read Public Domain books
 * Hone in on a particular range
 * Search by reading level
 * Type in a query //@google.com//
 * Above your search results click on //Search Tools//
 * Underneath click on //All Results// and from the drop-down menu choose //Reading Level//
 * Click on the level to display the results you want
 * A Google A Day (game on Google +)
 * Create a Custom Search Engine for Your Classroom- Click here

Specialized Searches

 * Google Search now includes a specific search for apps for mobile devices! [[image:msmacsdp/googleSearch_apps.PNG caption="googleSearch_apps.PNG"]]
 * Blog Search - Find blogs on your favorite topics
 * Patent Search - Search the full text of US patents
 * Finance - Business info, news and interactive charts
 * Product Search - Search for stuff to buy
 * Scholar - Search scholarly papers
 * Trends - Explore past and present search trends
 * Alerts - Get email updates on the topics of your choice

Additional Resources
Google in Education Google for Educators (wiki page) More Google Products