Google Docs Rocks & more! Meagan Walsh Brandon Aversano Olga Karounos

What we all know…. Google is great to search for information and images….. BUT – did you also know…. Google offers SO much more! –docs, calendar, earth, sites, reader, maps, gmail, videos, news – and the list goes on…… Our focus today is google docs and calendar

Intro to Docs

Docs Plus….. Spreadsheets Presentations Forms

Benefits…. Simple as MS Word Saves automatically (we’ve all lost something at some point and it’s not fun) Web 2.0 tool (available on any computer that is online)

Biggest Benefit for Education…. COLLABORATION !!! Colleagues, students, community members can work together on preparing/editing a document Docs tracks: who edits, what they did, when they did it, and time/date stamps

Sharing allows…

Imagine what you can do with… Group Projects…. Accountability (knowing who does what and when) Essays… (editing, rewriting, scaffolding) Forms at school Fundraising letters Have you ever been the poor soul that has to collect edits from multiple people and negotiate them into one document – Now it is DONE!

Google Calendar Web 2.0 tool – it goes where ever there is a computer online!

Benefits… Add Assignments/Homework /Events Embeddable on websites, blogs, wikis Connect to your or mobile (sends a text message)

Benefits… Connect Google Calendar to i-Cal on you Mac Send invitations to events (fundraisers, extra-curriculars) Search for past events (“I know the principal’s birthday is sometime close, hmmmm”)

Sign up…. Go to: Pull down the menu that says “more” Click on Documents Click on Create Google Account (if you already have one – enter your and password) That’s it – now you can create, share, & collaborate Calendar is also under the “more” tab