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Getting Geeky with Google Apps
June 29, 2011
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Chris Fitzgerald Walsh
Twitter: @fitzwalsh
Email: cwalsh [at] newtechnetwork.org


The Top 10

1: Google Sites  = free Content Management System

• Never code HTML again! Integrate all your Google content in one place!
• Examples
• Walnut Acres Parent Faculty Club: For parents, by parents
• Echo Tech Support Help Site
• Create your own custom gadgets
• New Tech Annual Conference 2010:
  Custom gadgets for horizontal navigation and Twitter feed
• Google Site Templates
• Google Site Template Gallery
• Create your OWN templates to re-use great sites across school and years

• Student project team templates
• Student portfolio templates; focus on content not design
• Conference/professional development sites
• Embed a Google Group Discussion
• Your Own Discussion Forums!
• Example
• Step-by-step directions

2: Google Docs (Video)

• Your Own Private YouTube!
• Converts movst video to playable web video and allows downloads
• Share via Google Docs permisssions
• Embed in Google Sites: Example
• Using Google Docs Video

3: Google Docs (Forms)

• Forms (ex. parent & student Surveys, quizzes, etc.)
• Branched Forms (ex. Ms. Schroeder’s Reading Survey)
• NEW: Flubaroo / OLD SCHOOL: The Self-Grading Quiz

4: Google Presentations + Google Voice = free online webinars

• Create a Google Preso, publish it, send URL to parents/audience
• At preso time, participants call your Google Voice # and watch/listen as students click through the live preso (click “watch together”); audience can ask questions via side chat

5: Google Books + Google Docs = free research/OCR tool

• Find a book in Google Books and search for a passage on a page
• Take a screenshot of the book (enlarge the text size one size first!)
• Upload your screenshot to Google Docs allowing it to “convert from PDF and image files”
• can upload our li brary isbn into it and have them show up in google

6: Google Translate

• Google Translate (most accurate)
• Translate any Google Doc
• NEW: Google Talk Translate Bots = realtime translation of chats!

7: Google Docs Templates & Scripts

• Google Docs Template Gallery
• Examples
• Word Search
• My Basketball Scorecard
• Email Form (scripts)

8: Google Spreadsheets

• Transposing Data (do it with forms data!)

9: Google Spreadsheets

• “Google Lookup” and other dynamic data in your spreadsheets
• Dynamic Data Samples (template)

10: Google Apps Integration

• Google Apps Marketplace
• Ex. Aviary, Manymoon
• Google Apps API
• Single Sign On with online platforms like Moodle and Drupal
• Ex. NTN Echo

Even More?
More cool Google Apps tools to check out....

Google Moderator

• Instantly take the pulse of the class or bubble up ideas

Google Squared

• Organize facts from across the web

Google Cloud Connect

• Sync your MS Office docs with Google Docs

Google Analytics

• Detailed data on the usage of any website or Google Apps installation

Student portfoilis- assessments

David Niguidula
founder: Ideas Consulting

Scantron invented in 1937 - we are still stuck with it!

know something about the student?
fan fiction - harry potter and write a story within the context
what did you accomplish in school?
Use Media to write in the genre
outside audience focus,

·         student did a demo real

·         writing in the genre: is news to inform, choose interviewees and wrote interview questions, storey board for editing

·         TV tropes.

·         pop culture

program - "richer picture"
Moore's law : computer processors doubles every 18 months
Change in education 5 years 10 if serious
what do we want to capture

build by:

1.      collect: do the work

2.      select: choose the best

3.      reflect : artist statement

4.      present: share the work

This is similar to the process used by artist about their work. Should be employed in the student portfolio

no right answer.
Example: Had students create a map in Spanish then had them read them to a digital recorder with images of the map - photostory or media maker
demonstration  of the standards this allowed demonstration of the standards

It shows

·         growth over time

·         evidence based

·         richer picture

·         edsteps.org

·         learning progressions

·         no grades-Marzano

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

This was probably the MOST important session I attended. HHJ is one of the best speakers! She has devloped a website with reviewed technology resources. She can do webinaris to assist with common core roll out.. She shows how to: do a Stategic upgrade with the curriculum. This is incredible!
IE: what makes a good podcasts

• quick load
• sound effects
• spanish in 10 minutes a day
• quick
• down to earth
• inform
• form followed functions
• fresh air - terry gross  intro and outgrow
• interview
• authentic voice
• pace driven

data assessment with authentic assessments

replace and upgrade
teacher consistancy on new media standards
create in new media

 

Prezi
short starting tools attention grabing.
not as good in long term informtion dessiminating.

 

digital portfolio
navigate over time

 

children are processing information differently
the reason for teaching differently

 

social production learning to do
knowledge creation

 

social netwrks
learning to be
defining out identisa

 

semantic web
learning to know
organing

 

finder rubicam - binder is 18th centruy education
textbook - dated

 

media grids

 

non-linear

 

animoto - vid cast
wiki space imcourious.wikispaces.com/period+1

 

 Google search: did you find info u were not looking for but is interesting

 

media mediates learning/information

 

40% are achievment test errors are reading errors.kids not engagedreading it.
strategic use of tools touch technology
NASSP

 

touch technology is what kids are coming in.
who owns the learning?? if child doesn't owns it wasting time,
Link directly7 to curriculum
qualiuty work

 

strategic upgrading revision of dated curriculum as assessment types wuth more vital contemproty forms

 

long term to new versions of the program structures in our school instiututyions that house curriculm and instruction,

 

 

 

teaching country
Brick Nations - kids know nothing it.
content matters
Brazil, Russia India, China,

 

digital literacy
media literacy
global literacy
curruculum 21
visual  thesarusu
what assessment to show improvement
vocab grabber
independent - adverb missing without you

 

vocabulary.com
fusion wordle with virtural thesaursus
quality quality

 

assignment turnn in 3 wordle
show could do it in progressions
gapminder
web2.0 interactive
fromative assessment?
app comin up on curriculum 21

 

gap minder - go through map and

 

tag galaxy images -
wolfram - add stats on places as well as math equasions

BUSY Busy

Started the day with a quick breakfast at the WAWA. Then on to the roll out of the new NETS standards. Colleagues will be happy to know that nowhere in the standards (NCATE) for ITF  is there 'take my students and teach them for me" It has finally recognized our coaching role. Our new evaluation instrument will reflect that role!! Yea!

Then on to exhibits to view tools to spend $ on if I can find it

·         Microscope which is kid friendly

·         Cartoon based phonics - cheap and aligned with common core

·         math based - cheap and common core

·         virtual desktop - cool! time saving cool tee shirts

·         NOAA - cool poster and teaching on climate impacts

Lunch was a banana and a pretzel for 4 dollars! Prices are very high here!!

Now I'm in the Moodle administrator training. But I'm not sure I should be here!!

Well Moodle admin is disappointing. They seem to have simply borrowed Sakai tools and repackaged them. However the navigation is more confusing. I don't think this is elem. teacher friendly at all. We're on Macs so I am enjoying playing with the Mac. I'm out of date. Most jobs I have both Mac and PC on my desk so that we can use both and I can stay up to date with it.

Podcasts - on Macs again and same process we are using. create audio - create link. The important message is to keep the cast interesting by adding sound effects etc, write to your audience, keep your voice appropriate with the message. We can use audacity to create them. we can store them online easily.  WRITING is the key point. This is where we can get the kids to improve writing!! through that, reading. Research, write, script and story board for effects, edit, publish!

Advanced active inspire

• Review of browser tools
• Play with the clicker - much better than ours! why mtac bought einstruction with Promethean boards I'll never know!!
• Live binder set up with teacher tools so extensive notes not necessary!
• Layers are handy! I've used them before but she is pulling it all together
• Active inspire tutorials on the planet are excellent!
• Still trying to finding the magic duplicate!
• What's the rule example is awesome!!
• Magic ink in active inspire cool!
• Import existing digital media - ie pdf file
• Property browser

Key Note Speakers

program Keynotes

Unlocking Potential

Each of our three keynote sessions features a unique perspective on the different ways educators can unlock the potential of their students, including:

• Creating research-based learning environments that stimulate and engage
• Developing a leadership culture and digital citizens
• Providing students with skills and tools that empower their own learning

Dr. John Medina

Opening Keynote—Dr. John Medina
Brain Rules for Education

Sunday, 5:45–7 pm
Terrace Ballroom
(simulcast throughout PACC)

Author and developmental molecular biologist Dr. John J. Medina wrote the New York Times bestseller Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. Presenting a unique and passionate perspective on how different physiological factors of the human brain embrace and shape student potential, Dr. Medina will lead an engaging, dynamic conversation about how knowledge of simple “brain rules” can awaken the educational process and improve learning.
He holds joint affiliate faculty appointments at the University of Washington School of Medicine and at Seattle Pacific University, where he is the director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research. Winner of numerous teaching awards, Medina speaks and writes often about the relationship between neurology and education.
Participants are encouraged to Tweet (ISTEkeynote#) specific questions to Dr. Medina for onstage answers. Dr. Medina will be available in the Terrace Ballroom Foyer to sign copies of his book immediately following the session. Purchase your copy at ISTE Central in the Grand Hall.

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Dr. Stephen R. Covey

Tuesday Morning Keynote—Dr. Stephen R. Covey and Muriel Summers
with moderation by Boyd Craig
Mindsets for the 21st Century:
Unleashing Leadership Potential in Students

Tuesday, 8:30–9:45 am
Terrace Ballroom
(webcast live & simulcast throughout PACC)

World renowned leadership expert, Stephen R. Covey, unites with Muriel Summers, principal of a top-rated magnet school, to demonstrate ways to engage students in learning while preparing them for a world that none of us can fully predict. They will discuss findings from Dr. Covey’s recent book, The Leader in Me, which portrays how more than 400 schools across the globe are transforming their cultures with very promising results.
Central to their theme will be the reality that students need not only relevant skill-sets and tool-sets to navigate 21st century demands, they need relevant mindsets. Find out how technology and you can be catalysts in that process.
ISTE’s particular focus with this session connects The Leader In Me principles with ISTE’s specific NETS-S standard for Digital Citizenship. The session will be moderated by Franklin Covey’s Boyd Craig, with Dr. Covey’s video participation provided courtesy of Polycom. Participants are encouraged to Tweet (ISTEkeynote#) specific questions for Principal Summers and her students to address during their presentation.

Muriel Summers

Mindsets for the 21st Century Part 2: Follow-up Session—Muriel Summers with Dr. David K. Hatch

Tuesday, 10–10:45 am
Terrace Ballroom Foyer

This session is a follow-up to the Stephen Covey and Muriel Summers keynote. It will give opportunity for additional Q & A, and provide practical applications for using technology to teach leadership principles to students. Learn why teachers are saying, “This is not one more thing we have to do, it is a better way of doing what we are already doing.”

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Chris Lehmann

Closing Keynote—Chris Lehmann
Change Now: The Urgency of School Reform

Wednesday, 2:45–4:15 pm
Terrace Ballroom
(simulcast throughout PACC)

“School reform” has taken its place at the front of the national political debate. Close your 2011 conference experience by joining us for an upbeat and inspiring look at how the educational technology community can help to create more empowering, progressive and caring schools.
Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy (SLA), an award-winning, progressive science and technology high school in Philadelphia that is pioneering the School 2.0 movement. He has received many honors including being named as one of the “30 Most Influential People in Ed Tech” by Technology & Learning magazine in June 2010. He has spoken at many conferences including TEDxNYED, and has been published in Principal Leadership magazine. Chris is the author of the edu-blog “Practical Theory” and is father to Jakob and Theo.

Workshops

Sunday, June 26
8:30-11:30am	SUA208B Reaching Beyond the Basics with Promethean ActivInspire [Workshop; Hands-on] Location: PACC 118A
Monday, June 27
12:30-3:30pm	MP343M Moodle 2.0 Administration Workshop [Workshop; Hands-on] Location: PACC 120B
4:30-7:30pm	ME361M Create a Video Podcasting Presence in Your Learning Community [Workshop; Hands-on] Location: PACC 120A
Tuesday, June 28
8:30-11:30am	TA411B Curriculum 21: Technology Tools for Transforming Schools [Workshop; Hands-on] Location: PACC 125
Wednesday, June 29
11:45am-12:45pm	BW315 Getting Geeky with Google Apps [Concurrent Session; BYOL] Location: PACC 115A

The ISTE Trip 2011

This should be an interesting trip to ISTE in Philadelphia.  Several former colleagues and friends live in the area so we will meet them for supper on Sat night. I start workshops the next morning and am looking forward to adding some new skills. I enjoyed spending time with colleagues at the NCTIES conference.  I look forward to spending time with Holly, Neal and Sharolyn. I've never been to Philadelphia or even PA so I'm excited to add another state to the list of visited places. I went to ISTE last in 2003 and it was truly an exciting adventure.