Or, Google is the BOMB!

 Megan Mills  Waxahachie High School  Librarian 10-12

 Caroline Scott  Waxahachie HS  English 10 th grade  Pre-Ap and Regular

 Stephanie Conner  Waxahachie HS  English Gr. 10  AP

 Hailee Turner  Waxahachie HS  English Gr. 11  Regular Students

 1400 students grades  Economically disadvantaged  1 iPad cart (iPad 1’s)  Outdated laptops  3 computer labs housed in the library

 In 2013, WISD became a GAFE district.  High School students were issued Google accounts in Fall  Spring 2014, ALL sophomore English classes and 6 Jr. English classes went paperless! (Yeah!!)

 3 computer labs  VDI computers (virtual)

 Can be accessed from home, device, school  Automatically saves work  Compatible with Office  Share documents-great for group work!  Easy to work with  No paper!!!

 /paperless_research_paper.pdf /paperless_research_paper.pdf

 “Google is the future-why pay for space?”  “100% of my students turned in their essay”  “There was something to grade for all of my students- even if they only did the rough draft, at least I could see something!”  “When the network went down, I didn’t lose my DBQ”  “I can work on my essay from my phone-Google is the way to go.”

  Presentation created by our teachers for other teachers in WISD.