Swann@ISTE2011: getting geeky

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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