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Teaching in the Cloud
Google Documents and Forms
February 25, 2011
What is Cloud Computing?
• Working with online applications (like Wordle, Picnik, Prezi)
• Saving online
• Up to date software without doing updates
• Sometimes a cost
• Often collaborative features
Collaboration
• How things get done
• More than 1 brain is usually better
• Reveals new perspectives
• Compensates for individual weaknesses
• Builds community
GOOGLE DOCUMENTS
GRCMS Google Doc Instructional Video
Share 8th grade experience
GOOGLE FORMS
Why Use a Google Form?
• Collecting
• Sharing
• Analyzing
Learn how to easily create and manage forms as well as how to use them for collaborative brainstorming and sharing and a variety of other classroom uses.
SAMPLE FORMS FROM OTHER SCHOOLS
Math Quiz
• Take a quick math quiz using a Google Form
• View spreadsheet of answers
• Model basic spreadsheet navigational functions
Types of Questions
Model Creating a Google Doc
• Check box options at top of a form
• Name
• Class hour
• Distribution
Create Your Own
• Share it with a colleague or 2 or 3
• Look at your resulting spreadsheet