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Mary's Page ISTE Notes - June 27

Lights Camera Action - a teacher uses here communications class to produce a broadcast for daily announcements It is a magnet program; she teaches grades 7/8 Laura Jean Chytka - laura.chytka@ops.org

Going Google jason.kurth@fairfieldsfuture.org

Access this Google Site using this shortened url: []

Going Google Questions []

Session Outline - Introductions and background info

- How FCSD got started with Google - pilot program

- Full Google implementation / Google Apps administrator information & resources Global address book can be set up - control panel Management solutions from 3rd party vendors <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Apps Marketplace <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are a lot of third party partners - some free, some not <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Set up URL and decide on domain name right away <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can have 1 domain for students and one for staff <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">?active directory sync <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bulk upload - more actions- import to root domain and then put in subgroups <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Think through your groups <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tech Director - buy a sandbox/playground and allow some users to play <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can limit sharing options <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">?? I think we already have this... But we don't use it at Mann? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">People shared concerns about hackers having access to all!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Apps (Suite) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Cloud working <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Control panel - allows for tech person or administrator to see who is in domain <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Google docs in the classroom - video - using laptops <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Allows teachers to work on forms together with other teachers without having to be together <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Popular apps- gmail, talk, groups, calendar, docs, sites, video, postini <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">?do we have a google apps domain in Neenah? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Docs examples <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-collaborative conference planning - work on a document together on the same time <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-student writing projects- can work individually or collaboratively, can monitor how often kids are working, make edits/revisions, publish <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-seating charts - create in google docs, students can fill in and choose own seats <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-forms - sign up sheets (picking a topic) - viewable public, but cannot change <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-formative and summative assessment (forms) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-student surveys (use forms) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Groups examples <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-google version of a list serve <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-can send and share things to a whole group <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">?eduMOOK? - online education with educators from around the world <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Sites examples <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-e-portfolios (Christine diPaulo?) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-can drop images into docs or projects <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-(sites.google.com) - templates - cool! Create project template that staff or students can use so all expectations are there <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Blogger examples <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-http://pic-catpickering.blogspot.com <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-tweachers.org <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-students - reflect on a lesson, or a situation, or something going on at school, journaling <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-bonus for blogging- requires kids to talk well online- as teacher, you can control and read before it goes live <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-MS principal, tech admin, teacher WITH students created the school's "geek squad" (tech group) to help teach the technology to other staff and students (look up creek squad) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-got great project ideas from the kids, allows for collaboration -allows kids to be innovative - use social networking- twitter, blogging etc for kids <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-used Middle school students - don't start with teachers! Use the kids!! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-brought a group of students together that otherwise wouldn't be friends <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-even led staff meetings that they set up

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">? How did you pick the kids for creek squad? First year chosen, after that popularity allowed for applications and interviews <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">? What do the students use for project creation? Desktop, laptop, mobile? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"If I could choose what object to put in kids' hands, I'd pick MacBooks!"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">edutraining.googleapps.com/training <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Iowa area education agencies - good webinars also national google apps webinars <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">google apps regional user groups <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plan to push out to staff: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communicate often! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Iowa - deployment resources- 6 steps to successfully going google <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">get staff agendas, school secretaries, etc to go google!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">??what is google chrome??

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher Dashboards <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"birds of a feather" 5:00 tuesday - organizing google docs

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use tables within googledoc to allow for group work and allow a column for your comments