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Why and How to Use Google Accounts,
Google Documents for Educational Purposes*
This Web
page offers a variety of resources to help explain and evaluate the educational potential of
tools designed for online collaborative work on documents. We
focus, in particular, on college and university use of "Google
Docs & Spreadsheets."
[For tips about the technical/functional "nuts and bolts" of Google Docs
& Spreadsheets, click here:
TLT Group Tip Sheet about Google Docs
&
Copying Google Docs
Also see
NOTE: Disclaimer*]
5 Minute Introductory,
Preparatory
Workshop Full FridayLive! Session
3/9/2007 - Recordings
Syllabus for March 9, 2007
Session (Google Doc!)
3/9 Session Summary/Overview (Incl.
Pre-Reqs)
Sharing Option
Leader/Presenters
Resources
for TLT Group's Online Synchronous Sessions
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5 Minute Introductory,
Preparatory
Workshop
- Cindy Russell:
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Full Version,
Slides + Audio:
Flash
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Excellent
preparatory/introductory
Flash file created and modified with
Articulate Presenter for FridayLive! session
3/9/2007. NOTE: You might
experience some delay when first launching this file -
depending on the speed of your Internet connection.
You might also find some of the text easier to read if
you choose to display it "full screen." |
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Audio Only: MP3
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Also available as TLT-SWG
podcast as of 3/8/2007.
Click
here to subscribe to TLT-SWG iTunes Podcast |
PPT Slides & Notes:
PDF version |
Slides & text only.
NOTE: Requires Adobe Reader. |
Full FridayLive! Session
- March 9, 2007
1 hour + 30 minutes open
discussion
Cindy Russell, UTHSC;
Heather
Carter-Templeton, UTHSC;
Steve Gilbert, TLT Group
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Archive (Digital Recording) |
NOTE: You might
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You might also find some of the text easier to read if
you choose to display it "full screen." |
Audio Only
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Need some kind of MP3
software (e.g., MS Windows Media Player, Real Player,
QuickTime Player, ...)
NOTE: You might experience some delay when first launching this
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PowerPoint Slides - Web version |
No audio. Note that
slides #25 & 26 have several hot links to additional
resources. You may need MS Internet Explore to
examine this document. |
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Transcript of Text Chat - text only file. |
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"CheatSheet"
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TLT Group Tip Sheet about Google Docs |
This very brief summary of
useful tips for using Google Docs & Spreadsheets is
itself a Google document that has been "published" so
that anyone may read it. |
TLT-SWG Blog entry
for Mar. 9, 2007 FridayLive! session |
Click here! |
Describes plans and context
for FridayLive! session about educational uses of Google
Docs & Spreadsheets. Provides opportunity
for exchanging comments. |
TLT-SWG Blog entry
for Nov. 2006 FridayLive! session |
Click here! |
Describes plans and context
for FridayLive! session introducing Google Docs &
Spreadsheets. Provides opportunity for exchanging
comments. |
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Cooperative Learning
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Click here! |
Barbara Millis, U. Nev-Reno,
writes often and well about effective principles and
practices for guiding team or group learning and related
activities. |
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Lakehead U. develops 1st
partnership for institution-wide educational use
of Google tools |
Click here! |
"Lakehead U Deploys Google
Email for Education Campus-Wide" - News release Dec,
2006 |
Additional TLT Group Staff likely to
Participate
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FridayLive! Featured Guest:
Cindy Russell from UTHSC
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March 9,
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2pm
Eastern U.S. Time Zone |
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Session Focus |
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Help
participants understand educational potential of Google
Docs & Spreadsheets and evaluate a
variety of their educational uses for college and
university teaching/learning.
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Pre-requisites |
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During our session on
March 9, we will NOT offer explicit
introductions to the "nuts and bolts" of Google Docs & Spreadsheets.
This session is NOT designed for those who have absolutely no
direct experience with Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Best, open
a Google Docs account, create a new Google Doc or
Spreadsheet, and invite some others to "collaborate" -
help edit. For some useful hints and guidance in
getting started, see:
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Context |
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We're
rapidly approaching a time when almost everyone will
have access to the Internet, but only recently have
resources emerged that enable almost everyone to do
things that were previously impossible or only available
to the technologically advanced.
Our ability to
collaborate, especially in small teams working together
on a single document, has advanced remarkably in the
past 2 years. Google Documents and Spreadsheets
are two closely related tools that support this kind of
collaboration easily, conveniently, and inexpensively.
We have just begun to explore the educational potential
of this kind of collaborative capability! |
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SYLLABUS FOR SESSION
Scheduled for 2pm Eastern on
Friday 3/09/2007, will have 5 parts:
i. 2:05pm
EST Concepts & Context
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Examples, Evaluation of Potential Uses
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Specific uses
of Google Docs & Spreadsheets to support collaborative learning
and collaborative teaching and research
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Generic
examples
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How to evaluate
whether or not to use Google Docs & Spreadsheets for certain
educational situations: instructional goals, instructional
context, characteristics of learners, characteristics of
teachers, ...
iii.
Clothing the Emperor
iv. 2:50pm Closing: Next Steps for Engaging More Actively
v. 3:00pm Extra Informal Discussion
(END no later than 3:30pm Eastern) |
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INTERACTION - OPTION FOR SHARING YOUR
OWN FAVORITE EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF GOOGLE DOCS & SPREADSHEETS
What are your favorite educational applications of
Google Docs & Spreadsheets? What
are their educational implications? Please answer briefly as a
comment to this TLT-SWG blog posting:
http://tlt-swg.blogspot.com/2007/03/fridaylive-google-docs-spreadsheets-5.html
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*NOTE: Google
offers frequent but unpredictable changes and improvements to its freely
available resources - including Google Documents and other services
available via a free Google Account. Neither the TLT Group nor any
other organization or individual outside of Google can keep fully up to date
on these changes. So, please don't expect that the info you get
here will address all of the very latest modifications and features!
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