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Get Going with Google APPS toc Return to Tech Liaison Meetings April 6th for PDN Grant Teachers April 13th for Tech Liaisons and Library Media Specialists
 * Dates**:

Book Suggestion: Retool Your School: The Educator's Essential Guide to Google's Free Power Apps

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=Agenda for Tech Liaisons & Library Media Specialists= Lisa Nielsen, Technology Innovation Manager Carolyn Semet, Technology Innovation Specialist Evan O'Donnell, Online space creation extraordinaire - Teaching Matters
 * Facilitators**:
 * **Time** || **Topic** || **Resources** ||
 * 8:30 || ==**Welcome / Sign In**== || **JOIN** our learning network if you are not a member: @http://ted21c.ning.com/
 * PDN Grant Teachers - Join PDN Grant Group if you are not a member
 * Technology Liaisons - Join Technology Liaisons group if you are not a member
 * All participants join our Google in Education group

Top Ten Reasons to get Google Apps for your school Google Case Study: CS 339 [|Google Case Study Saline Area Schools] [|Read how Kathleen Gerard uses Google with her students] ||
 * READ**
 * 9:00 || ==**How Google is Used in Schools**==

Saline Area Schools K-12 "Google Apps has worked out better than I could have ever imagined. We expected a more reliable, stable, and virus-free email. But we got more – a suite of integrated collaborative applications that are being used by teachers and in our classrooms. "Scot Graden, Superintendent || **WATCH AND RESPOND** [|What did you see in the videos on Google-using schools that you would like to bring back to your own school?] media type="custom" key="8881756" ||
 * 9:25 || ==**What is a Google Doc?**== || media type="custom" key="8927652"

Ideas for Using Google Docs Find one idea that you like and will use and share at [|Ideas for Using Google Docs] ||
 * Review and vote on**
 * 9:30 || ==**Creating a Google Doc**==
 * Be aware:**
 * Works best with Firefox (free download) or Google Chrome


 * Be sure not to overwrite it each other.
 * Notice there are different colors/cursors to prevent this.
 * Discuss setting up different areas of the doc for participants to contribute.

• Create a Google Doc • Auto Save feature (NOTE: This feature is enabled once you give your document a title) • Sharing and Publishing- establishes a url for the document for anyone to view online, can unpublish at any time • Adding collaborators to share • Creating a Tinyurl • Chat - discussions are real-time online chats that are not archived, they can be viewed when working on the document, but once it is closed, the discussions are deleted • Comments/Peer Review • Using tables for students to contribute Example: PLN Powers Activate! Tech Teacher Taps Into Virtual Department To Create Curriculum Map http://t.co/pM954hV
 * Additional Reading**
 * Getting started with Google Docs
 * [|Google Docs for teachers] || **Model for participants:**
 * Create a table:
 * Top - Principal, Teacher, Students, Self
 * Side - Number 1 - # of participants

Participants practice collaborating on a Google doc using chat and inserting comments. 1. Explore the Google Products Page. 2. Pick a product you would like to explore. 3. Indicate your choice at this survey link. 4. Visit this link to see if anyone else picked the product you did. o If they did, work together. If not, work alone. 5. You will have about 20 minutes to explore the product and create a slide corresponding to the row at the above link. 6. If you finish early, explore another tool. || **Activity** Contribute to a Google Presentation while learning about other Google Tools. media type="custom" key="8869900" ||  ||
 * Activity**
 * Next to your number indicate how G-docs could be used by members in your school.
 * Comment on someone else's idea
 * Chat as you are writing
 * Ask for note-taking volunteer for different time during the rest of the day. ||  ||
 * 10:00 || ==**Google Presentation and OTHER Google Tools**==
 * |||| media type="custom" key="9078038" ||  ||
 * |||| media type="custom" key="9077982" ||||  ||   ||
 * 10:30 || ==**Google Forms and Spreadsheets**==


 * Additional Reading**
 * How to create forms and surveys using Google
 * Collect Instant Feedback with Google Forms and Spreadsheets
 * Information on embedding in places like blogs and wikis.
 * Getting started with Google Spreadsheets || **Model**
 * Create a form with Name, email, favorite idea for using Google forms
 * Show the different templates available and question types
 * Embed in this wiki
 * Recipients can complete form without an email or logging in
 * Show how anyone can be invited to update/add to results

> https://sites.google.com/a/teachingmatters.org/google-apps-training ||  || (not google apps!) >> [] >> [|http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/07/get-going-with-google-apps-in-your.html]
 * Activity**
 * Read [|Ideas for using Google Forms]
 * Find one idea you like and share in form below.
 * See results from you and peers auto populate. ||  ||
 * |||| Google Form Results in spreadsheet ||  ||
 * 11:00 || [|**Google at P.S. 116 with Kathleen Gerard**] ||  ||   ||
 * 11:30 || **Lunch** ||  ||   ||
 * 12:15 || ==**What is Google Apps for Education?**== || * Overview
 * [|Google Apps for K-12 Education]
 * [|Google Apps FAQs]
 * How is your school currently using it?
 * Show and tell:
 * **12:50** || ==**Create a Google Account**== || Create a regular google account
 * Use your doe email.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Need a volunteer to model (10 minutes) ||  ||
 * **1:00** || ==Google Sites== || * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Types of sites (15 minutes)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School site - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[]__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Classroom site -
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group project site - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|sites.google.com/a/wscnyc.org/city-paper/]__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Student portfolio site] -
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|Other Sample sites]__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Site planning - what do you have coming up in the next 6 months? What would be an appropriate topic for your class project site?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create your site:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manage Your Site
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Page Types and uses
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Inserting images / media / other docs ||  ||
 * 2:00 || ==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Google Apps Implementation** == || * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The big decisions before going with Google
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Accounts for who? (Admins, Teachers, Students, Parents)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Access? Which modules will you enable? For what users?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Parent Permission
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Resources
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|Get Going with Google Apps for Education with a New Domain]__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|Get Going with Google Apps in Your School]__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Tools] and research: ||
 * 3:15 || **Wrap Up**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|See events on Our Learning Network]__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">Protraxx is no longer being supported by the DOE - please register on our learning network **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Next workshop topic: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[| Innovate My Class with Blogs and Wikis] [|May 25, 2011]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> from 8:30am to 3:30pm – <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|HRTC]__ || **Questions / Commentary / Final Thoughts**

PLEASE COMPLETE our survey > Participate in the Community Forum by reading posts, asking questions, helping others, and choosing and sharing the best answers to your questions > <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">View videos and tutorials on how you can use Google Apps at your school and in the classroom.
 * Borough hosting: Manhattan
 * Class: Get Going with Google Apps ||
 * 3:30 || **Adjourn** || Education Community**
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">**Join the discussion**
 * **[|Tutorials & Tips]**
 * **<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Lesson Plans **
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">[|Lesson Plans from Google]
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Using Google Apps to Enrich a Unit on Severe Weather
 * Get Going with Google Research Apps ||

**Resources** for Using Gmail, Calendar, and Sites

 * Google Gmail**
 * Ideas for Using Google Mail in Action
 * Become a Gmail Ninja
 * Google Calendar**
 * [|Ideas for Using Google Calendar]
 * Getting started with Google Calendar
 * Google Sites**
 * [|Ideas for Using Google Sites]
 * Sample sites for teachers

**More Great Resources!**
To get you fired up about all things Google David Andrade ( @daveandcori) has curated a **wonderful collection of Google support tools and resources** here:
 * Google For Educators – Google’s official page for educators. Has links, tips, and more.
 * [|Google List of Tools] – this page has a listing of the major Google tools available.
 * [|Google Tools for Schools] – tutorials, links, resources, and tips on using Google tools in the classroom
 * [|Google Tutor]- how-to’s, tech tips, and more on Google tools
 * [|Guide to Google for Educators] – free 33 page guide on Google for Educators from [|Richard Byrne].
 * [|Google Apps Education Training Center] – how to use Google apps effectively in education
 * [|100 Ways Google Can Make you a Better Educator] – examples of how to use Google tools in different ways in the class room
 * [|Google for Educators] – presentation on Prezi
 * [|Google for Educators Resource Handout] – handout from a Google for Educators workshop
 * [|Google A-Z] – a Google Doc that keeps expanding as people add Google tools to it. Pretty much covers every tool and app Google has.

**Related articles**
 * [|Learn Advanced Uses of Forms in Google Docs] (freetech4teachers.com)
 * [|Google tools and bloom’s revised taxonomy] (annmic.wordpress.com)
 * [|My Own Social Media Experiment] (coalcrackerclassroom.wordpress.com)
 * [|16 Google Tools to Improve Marketing Effectiveness] (hubspot.com)

=Agenda for PDN Grant Teachers= Carolyn Semet and Beth Richards, Technology Innovation Specialists || **JOIN or Login** to our learning network if you are not a member: @http://ted21c.ning.com/
 * **Time** || **Topic** || **Resources** ||
 * 8:30 || **Welcome / Sign In**
 * PDN Grant Teachers - Join PDN Grant Group if you are not a member
 * Technology Liaisons - Join Technology Liaisons group if you are not a member
 * All participants join our Google in Education group

Top Ten Reasons to get Google Apps for your school Google Case Study: CS 339 Google Case Study Saline Area Schools Read how Kathleen Gerard uses Google with her students || Carolyn Semet, Technology Innovation Specialist csemet@schools.nyc.gov
 * READ**
 * 9:00 || **Welcome**

Saline Area Schools<span class="cust_entry_type"> K-12 "Google Apps has worked out better than I could have ever imagined. We expected a more reliable, stable, and virus-free email. But we got more – a suite of integrated collaborative applications that are being used by teachers and in our classrooms. " <span class="quote_owner">Scot Graden, Superintendent || **WATCH AND RESPOND** What did you see in the videos on Google-using schools that you would like to bring back to your own school? media type="custom" key="8881756" ||
 * 9:30 || **NYC DOE SCHOOLS USING GOOGLE APPS for Ed Schoolwide**


 * CIS 339**
 * [|Marta Valle High School]**


 * <span style="color: #551a8b; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">[|Who's on the map around the Globe] **
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Find other Google Apps educators & students around the world. ** || media type="custom" key="8870736" ||
 * 10:00 || **Set up Your Google Account** || * Creating a Google account (not a gmail account) using DOE email
 * Model with a volunteer
 * Participants will do the same (can access docs with your gmail account) ||
 * 10:15 || **What is a Google Doc?** || media type="custom" key="8927652" ||
 * 10:30 || **Creating a Google Doc**


 * Be aware:**
 * Safari or Internet Explorer does not fully support G-docs. Use Firefox (free download)*

• How to create a Google Doc • Auto Save feature (NOTE: This feature is enabled once you give your document a title) • Adding collaborators to share • Discussing work that is done - discussions are real-time online chats that are not archived, they can be viewed when working on the document, but once it is closed, the discussions are deleted • Publishing - establishes a url for the document for anyone to view online, can unpublish at any time
 * Be sure not to overwrite it each other.
 * Notice there are different colors/cursors to prevent this.
 * Discuss setting up different areas of the doc for participants to contribute. || **Model for participants:**


 * Read**
 * Getting started with Google Docs
 * [|Google Docs for teachers]

Participants practice collaborating on a Google doc using chat and inserting comments.
 * Activity**
 * Find one or two other participants to be in your group.
 * Decide who will create the document. Invite the other two members.
 * Create a g-doc that indicates how your principal, teachers, and students might use Google docs to improve literacy instruction.
 * Keep in mind a focus in reading/writing.
 * Decide who will work on each piece. Note you will want to make a section for each in advance so that you are not overwriting each other.
 * Use chat as you are writing.
 * Comment when writing is complete and revise.
 * Make your doc accessible to "anyone with the link."

5 or more Ideas for Using Google Docs ||
 * Review and vote on**
 * 10:45 || Break || Complete the form below during the break. ||
 * |||| media type="custom" key="8976656" ||
 * 11:00 || **Creating Surveys with Google Forms** || **Read
 * How to create forms and surveys using Google
 * Collect Instant Feedback with Google Forms and Spreadsheets
 * Information on embedding in places like blogs and wikis.
 * Getting started with Google Spreadsheets
 * Model**
 * Participants have input information into a sample form created by the facilitator
 * View the spreadsheet with the data.
 * Show how to create a form and the different templates available and question types
 * Recipients can complete form without an email or logging in
 * Show participants how they can embed the form into an email or wiki page.

//**Activity:**// Getting started with Google Presentations
 * Participants create a survey for their school or class.
 * Optional: embed in a wiki or webpage ||
 * 11:30 || **A Glimpse into Google Drawing** || **Model**
 * Creating a Google Drawing.
 * Split the drawing into sections.
 * Share to "Anyone with a Link"
 * Invite participants to contribute.
 * Discuss that depending on assignment could consider different ink colors. ||
 * 12:00 || LUNCH ||  ||
 * 12:50 || **Google Presentations** || **Read**

//Innovation Field Trip Google Presentation// media type="custom" key="8981684"
 * View a Sample**

How to create a Google Presentation How to share : email, publish or embed ||
 * Model**
 * 1:20 || **Explore OTHER Google Tools**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. Explore the Google Products Page. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. Pick a product you would like to explore. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. Indicate your choice at this survey link. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. Visit this link to see if anyone else picked the product you did. o If they did, work together. If not, work alone. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">5. You will have 30 minutes to explore the product and create a slide corresponding to the row at the above link. o For a sample, see the next slide. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">6. If you finish early, explore another tool. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">7. Present what you found with the class. || **Activity** Contribute to a Google Presentation while learning about other Google Tools. media type="custom" key="8869900" ||
 * |||| media type="custom" key="8872476" ||
 * 1:45 || **Try other Google Tools and Share**

A tool you are interested in.
 * **Spreadsheets**
 * **Translate**
 * **Google Voice**
 * **Picasa** || **Try**

[|how you will use a Google Tool to innovate learning.]
 * [|Share]**

What are you most excited about bringing back to your school. Quick round the room. One sentence. In what way are you most excited about using Google docs, drawing, spreadsheets, forms, and presentations. || Creating folders to organize your docs ||
 * Discuss**
 * 2:15 || **Putting it all together** || **Model**
 * 2:30 || **Google Templates** || **Google Templates instead of creating from scratch**
 * [|Browse template types]
 * Model template creation
 * Use and modify an existing template OR create your own template ||  ||
 * 2:50 || **Google Demo Slam** || Vote for your favorite Google Tools * <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://www.demoslam.com ||  ||
 * 3:00 || **What is Google Apps for Education?** || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Overview
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Google Apps for K-12 Education]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|Get Going with Google Apps for Education with a New Domain]__ []
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;">__[|Get Going with Google Apps in Your School]__ []

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If your school wants to launch Google Apps Register for next month's class and view upcoming meetings:
 * You or a designee can come at noon on April 13th ||  ||
 * 3:15 || **Wrap Up**
 * See events on Our Learning Network
 * May workshop topic: Innovate My Class with Blogs and Wikis
 * Link to register for PDN Grant Teachers || **Questions / Commentary / Final Thoughts**

PLEASE COMPLETE our survey
 * Borough hosting: Manhattan
 * Class: Get Going with Google Apps ||
 * 3:30 || Adjourn

See additional resources below. ||  ||


 * NYC DOE Google Geeks**
 * Jason Levy or someone from his school
 * Thea Laforestrie
 * Nick Rubinfier can present Google Sketchup
 * Susan Ettenheim
 * Wilson & Tracy from MVHS


 * http://titleiidgrants.wikispaces.com/google4educators
 * online portfolio with google sites: http://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/online-tutorials-sites/sites-how-to