Google Apps and the Teacher’s Process

Google Apps and the Teacher’s Process Daniel Rezac, Fremont School District #79, GCTDaniel Rezac, Fremont School District #79, GCT

Got Frustration?

Got Frustration?

Mr. Rezac. circa 2007. Frustrated.

Why frustration?Homework turn in rate was poor.

Stacks and stacks of lesson books.

Accommodate ELL and numerous IEPs.

Piles and piles of paper, wasted.

Kids were unorganized.

Still stuck in a paper-push society.

Solution? This Woman

Mary Reinhard, mogschool.com

Solution?

(yes, she’s my mother in law)

Solution?

Online Learning Environments (OLE)circa 2007

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Know This Guy?

Image source: http://gcarvajalmodelos.wordpress.com/2007/04/04/robert-gagne/

1. Gain Attention

2. Describe the goal/objective

3. Stimulate prior knowledge

4. Present new content/material

Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction

5. Provide Guidance

6. Elicit Performance

7. Provide Feedback

8. Assess Performance

9. Enhance Retention

Content Delivery Content Delivery in the 21st Centuryin the 21st Century

#1.Gaining Attention

How can we use Google Apps to Gain Attention?

1. Have them sign in!

How can we use Google Apps to Gain Attention?

Signing in makes them engage with their content.

This is philosophically the flipside of the traditional classroom.

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2. Discrepant Events with You Tube

How can we use Google Apps to Gain Attention?

Check out this sample Google Presentation with You Tube.

#2.Describe the goal/objective

What’s the benefit for using Google Apps to describe your Goals?

What’s the benefit for using Google Apps to describe your Goals?

•Always visible and accessible •Accessible from anywhere.•Students can go back to previous lessons by checking through their documents.

#3 Stimulate Prior Knowledge

How do we currently stimulate prior knowledge?

Anticipation Quizzes using Google Forms!

How do we use Google Apps to access prior knowledge?

Click here to see this live form

#4 Present new content/material

How do we currently present new material?

#4 Present new content/material

How can we present new content with Google Ed Apps?

•With Google Docs you get a Content Stream.•Offer interactive lessons with links, video, and more with Google Presentations.•Use previously popular Best Practices in the Google Apps environment•Example: Text Coding by Doug Buehl

Links Embedded into The Content

How can we present new content with Google Ed Apps?

Readings: Text Coding (Doug Buehl)

Click here to read about Text Coding from Doug Buehl (from Google Books).

Readings: Using Google Docs for Text Coding (Doug Buehl)

Use Comments in Google Docs for kids to Text Code

#5 Provide Guidance How do we currently provide guidance during a

lesson?

How can Google Apps for Ed help to provide guidance during a lesson?

Tutorials - Google Video

Use and create tutorials to be available on Google Video or Youtube.

Tutorials Why not offer other teacher/student content from youtube? There’s a lot of good stuff out there! Click!

#6 Elicit Performance (practice)

How can Google Apps be a helpful tool in eliciting performance from your students?

#6 Elicit Performance (practice)

With Google Apps it’s about HOW you want your students to practice as opposed to what.

Share documents to students to work on with groups of two or three.

Share documents with multiple classes’ groups.

Eliciting Performance with Google Apps.

#7 Provide Feedback

How can Google Apps be a helpful tool in providing feedback?

How can Google Apps be a helpful tool in providing feedback?This

Love Letter video shows how the collaboration process can happen between students and teachers.

#8 Assess Performance

How can you use Google Apps to Assess Performance?

How can you use Google Apps to Assess Performance?

How about a Digital Scantron with Forms and Spreadsheets?

How can you use Google Apps to Assess Performance?

How about creating online journals with Sites?

How can you use Google Apps to Assess Performance?

Project Product with Google Site.

Portfolio Site

Google Video Presentation

Google Presentation

Final Exams with Forms

Formative AssessmentSummative AssessmentQuizzes with Forms and Spreadsheets

Online Journals with Google sites

Online Worksheets with Docs

Create spreadsheets for Math

#9 Enhance Retention

How do you enhance retention with Google Apps?

Should we treat kids like a machine?

Image source: UnknownInformation Processing Theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_processing_theory

How do you enhance retention with Google Apps?

Image source: UnknownInformation Processing Theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_processing_theory

Use it!

Be creative! Develop fun, authentic projects!

REferences:

Image source: UnknownInformation Processing Theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_processing_theory

Thanks to Youssef Elias, GCT, for the digital scantron form. Template here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccckey=0AoTsLnwMBgkjdEpwNm40NmtQb3RKeVJiLUpXQ29nV2c&hl=en

Google Docs: A Love Letter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7y7NafWXeM

Google Apps for Education: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/

Gagne’s Events of Instruction. Original presentation from Randy Hansen, National Louis University http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AWWzaaRnYL0HZGNmZzliNjZfMjU3YzNtNjJ0OGM&hl=en

RTI Data collection example form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEdxMHJ2UzdqWjFackpiRGJ5cnMxMGc6MA