Google+Apps

=Why G oogle A pps F or E ducation? =

Google Apps Education Edition is a cloud-based communication and collaboration productivity suite designed for schools and universities. These tools are for creating, collaborating on, and storing content in the cloud. Google Apps includes many aspects, most notably Google Docs. This is a highly effective collaborative document creation tool.

Google Docs, a real-time collaborative creation tool, can increase staff to student, student to student and staff to staff engagement and creating a collaborative learning culture. Students and staff having access to the same document allows them to work on the same document at the same time from anywhere in the world.

**DIY Learning about Google Apps & Getting Started**

** STEP 1: ** **The BROWSER matters** - Use Google Chrome
-integrates with Google -add-on and extensions are available by choice
 * Why? **

** STEP 2: Google Drive: create, share and keep all your stuff in one place **


Cloud storage that syncs and manages your files, videos and more.

[|Google Drive]

Video: [|How To Get Started With Google Drive] To get started with Google Drive, head to [|drive.google.com]  and enable the service.

** STEP 3: How do Sign in **


=[|HWDSB Google Apps for Education]=

= WAYS TO LEARN! = [|Introducing Google Docs__] - introductory video to Google Docs by Google - 2.41 minutes [|Google Docs in Plain English__] - Commoncraft video that explains Google Docs - 2.51 minutes

**[|Tutorials on Google Apps:]**
[|1. Introduction to Google Drive] [|2. Composing Google Docs] [|3. Sharing and Collaboration] [|4. Document Organization] [|5. Advanced Sharing and Permissions Tutorial]

NOTE: In total there are 16 videos. I've linked to the the first five videos. [|Ask the Gooru] - Tips, Tricks & Tools for Google Apps

= **GAFE:** G oogle A pps F or E ducation =

[|Google Blends with Anything ECOO 13 Presentation] by Julie Millan @jsm2722, TDSB
[|My Google Powered Classroom] by Alice Chen @wondertechedu


 * Why Google Docs? **


 * ===== bring students, staff and the greater community together to create and collaborate asynchronously and synchronously =====
 * ===== saves automatically =====
 * ===== anytime, anywhere access (with internet connection) =====

[|Google Apps for Education: 40 Ways to Start Using Apps in Schools] [|Back to School with Google Docs] [|Teaching in the Cloud: How Google Docs Are Revolutionizing the Classroom]

ASPS Staff - Why Google Docs?
- Sharing - Students can share with each other and peer evaluate easily on any device, anywhere. -Descriptive Feedback - easy to comment on student work (via sharing) and see students making changes to work with the revision history - Easily shows the writing process with the revision history tab. Colour codes the revisions! - Students can access their work anywhere and as long as they have a device they never forget their work. - Online portfolios


 * Student Writing Sample & Teacher Feedback **




 * co-creating learning goals and success criteria is more open and secure more participation
 * link this on my website so that during a unit the students consistently have access to this information
 * not only do they have access, they can change and enhance the criteria as they work through the information
 * use google docs and their shared folder to record their documents; always available for teacher review and feedback

**The Power of Google Docs - A Principal's Perspective**

At [|Ancaster Senior Public School],

Here are the reasons why GDocs is the way to go when it comes to creating a collaborative learning culture of today:
 * enable you and your staff as well as students to collaborate on documents in real time
 * allow you to store our files in the cloud, access them on any device and share them with anyone
 * allow you to collect information through powerful forms
 * allow you and your staff to create online presentations that parents and anyone can access online
 * allow you to co-learn with staff and crowdsource thinking, ideas and strategies building collective intelligence in an ongoing and sustainable way


 * Think about these words:**
 * paperless
 * sustained and ongoing sharing of ideas, comments and collaboration in a 24/7 way
 * access from any device

//Here is an image of my GDrive that offers a bit of an understanding of how at ASPS we are creating a collaborative learning culture using GDocs with each other, students and parents.//



[|ASPS November eNews 2013] [|Parents: Share Your Wonderings]