Google Lit Trips

An awesome tool for hooking kids into Reading.

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

Team Tait

Apps scripts in Google

Apps scripts is a phrase that would probably scare the average teacher, however using these does not require any script writing knowledge. Most of the scripts that could be useful to a teacher are already available and come with full instructions to make them less frightening. A good example is an extension called Flubaroo which is added to sheets and forms. It allows the teacher to garde online assignments automatically and even email the students to let them know how well they have done- instant feedback. I have used this for subject pre- and post- tests with very little effort required; especially with no need to mark the tests personally.

Nick major

Team Rutherford

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Team Rutherford Idea from Rebecca Clark

So Much Data, So Little Time

Twice a year, Reading and Language Arts teachers run MAP testing at Singapore American School and receive oodles of data on students' skills around reading and writing. The math teachers also run an assessment, so this idea should catch on quickly with them because it involves utter geekiness around scripting.

Thanks to Jay Atwood's presentation, I'm thinking about how we can make the data flow in a new way.

The Now: Individual RIT scores, some grouping based on level, up to the teacher to sort and manage

The Future: Individual RIT scores, coding to make purposeful groupings for learning, coding to distribute actual activities to boost learning

We won't see data, we'll see:

• kids with similar levels able to feel comfortable that there are others who struggle with the same challenges
• time focused on learning rather than figuring out who's in which group

Now, all I need to do is get Jay the Coder Atwood to run this by the Office of Learning.

And I'm pretty proud of myself for throwing this out there without much editing and will launch early and iterate (Google Principle # . Thanks, Rebekah Madrid for posting this photo on Twitter.

Rebecca Clark

Reading/Language Arts 8C

Room M332

Singapore American School

40 Woodlands Street 41

Singapore 738547

6363-3405 Ext. 6483

E-mail: rclark@sas.edu.sg

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Team Rutherford Hearing Impaired Solution

Hearing Impaired Solution for Hearing Impaired using Google Hangouts

This way they can lipread their peers. Position in the class is not important, All communications can be heard by the hearing impaired individuals. I tried it out and it works. I used iPads, phones, microphones to do it. The current method is using an FM system which only amplifies sound between teacher and student and peer communication is only available by the teacher 'retweeting' the peers

Google Scholar- awesome research tool

Google scholar takes searching for articles to another, higher level. The features of this tool allow you to search for journals, legal documents and patents across the internet. It is even possible to access the freely available articles as these are listed as PDF or HTML files on the right side of the screen.

Other great features are the ability to access scholarly articles via Google docs; simply highlight the word or subject in the doc, right click and click on research, then find scholar in the drop down menu. A new search pane opens with the scholar results to the side of the doc. Easy. Want to know whether an article has validity? Check the number of citations, and if you want you can see what these other articles are about by following the links. Full citations can be generated easily using the 'cite' function, and the format of this can be set by the user. A complete citation list can be generated and footnotes can be added to work, saving all of that boring rewriting of references. Citations are also easily exported to citation managers.

Overall, a useful tool to manage those higher applications.

Nick Major

Team Rutherford

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Help protect orangutans, tigers and rhinoceros. Avoid buying palm oil products.

Library Stocktake: Team Rutherford

Google docs are a wonderful collaborative tool that teachers can use with students, but we can also collaborate with other teachers. 

As a teacher-librarian I have to do a stocktake at the end of the year, many teacher-librarians do. the Maths we are required to do in the stocktake report is 

pretty much the same for all of us. But not all of us know how to create a spread sheet. Until this year my library had used pen and paper. But with Google Docs, this changed. 

Joe Cohan and I put together a spreadsheet which can be copied and shared to any librarian who needs it. Now, all of us can use the same spreadsheet, and ask each other over the email list serve (NSWTL or OZTLnet) how to fill it out. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkvrxiFIaBAydHdPQlZFSXJwazhBTFNBcEtUdDNhZFE&usp=sharing

Collaborative Character Profiles and Analysis

English teachers have access to a simple tool that makes analysis of characters and other elements of literature collaborative and engaging for students. That tool, is Google Docs.

Google Docs allows multiple authors to contribute to a single document at the same time - it's a great way of allowing multiple students to contribute to a whole group's understanding of an idea or concept. In this case, I'll use an example that explains how you can take advantage of shared knowledge to quickly develop a rich character profile for a protagonist from a play - we'll explain how students contributed to profiles for Othello, Desdemona, Iago and Emilia in the Shakespearean play Othello.

You begin the process by building up a template of topics, attributes and behaviours that define the character in the play. A blank document can be created and easily shared using the "Share" button of Google Docs, and you can choose to share to other Google Accounts (particularly useful in an Apps for Education context), or to students using a public link.

When students follow that link they'll see the template provided, as well as the cursors for all other contributors to the document. Create a document for each of the major characters - Iago, Emilia, Othello and Desdemona - and assign students to groups (or allow them to choose their own). Give them a short time frame to contribute - say, 5-10 minutes depending on the complexity of the questions you're asking - and you'll quickly see students contributing and expressing disagreement about a student's contribution. Make sure they don't overwrite anything, and after the time is up, use any conflicting suggestions as a way of delving deeper into the material, and coming up with consensus amongst the group.

In less than half an hour, you'll have developed extensive character profiles for the major characters in the play, and every student will have had an opportunity to contribute. This allows for much more time in class to discuss and analyse rather than simply recalling information - and that's where the value of any kind of exercise exploring character profiles really lies.

Give it a go - and you'll be surprised by how easy it is, and how great the benefits are for the students!

Bruce Fuda

Team Rutherford

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Bruce Fuda

Apple Distinguished Educator
SLC - IT / Technology / Learning Technologies
Stromlo High School, ACT

Web: http://fuda.me/

Email: bruce@fuda.me

Twitter: @Bruce1979

Google Book Club

The Concept

The Google Book Club is a global hangout for book lovers of all ages to share ideas about a book. A certain book is nominated per month/week. Then everyone gets busy reading! Everyone reads the book and comes prepared to the hangout to share ideas.

How will it work?

Schools, classes or individuals can join the book club. Simply check the time to participate and turn up (with a copy of book in hand, or screen!) at the designated google hangout for your region/area.

What is the purpose?

Students must participate by offering an idea to start the session. Students should come having read the book and ready to talk about ideas such as theme, character, language techniques, cover design, potential casting suggestions for a film version etc.

Students will engage in a collaborative, creative and analytical process designed to encourage discussion of the book in their own way, or on their own terms. It can be student-led, rather than teacher-led. Students can set further reading tasks such as:

- reading books from the same author

- creating a new cover design etc etc

They can collaborate further using Google Docs, YouTube, to celebrate, recreate the skills learned, and enshrine their findings for others to use.

Google books + lit Trips: Team Rutherford.

Google books is a fantastic tool for students and teachers alike. 

start with using the list of required readings which are out of copyright for example.

http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/schoollibraries/assets/docs/Graybiblist.doc

A teacher could download a file and modify by adding questions between chapters or, by including hyperlnks, e.g. in Frankenstein, on Mt Blanc

have a link to the Mt Blank wikipedia entry. 

Students could use the Ctrl-F function to help find answers to questions and then copy and paste the text into answers. 

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Imagine this then teamed up with Lit-trips. The websites which has mapped out various famous literary journeys. 

Students could not only read the book, but see the real world locations. 

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

Two existing google tools combined to give students a more in depth and easier to access understanding of a text.

Maths Problem Hunt

Preparation : Having a set of questions on cards around the school with a maths problems/tasks.  Ideally the problem needs to relate to the area of the school that the problem is placed.  For example, photograph all the objects in the playground that have a triangle.

Split the learners into teams of four.  

Create a shared folder on Google Drive that will contain all the photos and videos.  

Two learners stay in the classroom.  

Two learners go out to find a problem with a mobile device connected to Google Drive.  

The learners in the classroom use Google chat to guide the learners walking around the school, as they know where the problems are.  

The learners have to use the camera to either photograph or video the solution to Maths problem or task. 

The learners in the classroom then create a Google presentation within the shared Google folder, using the photos and videos to summarise the learning.

The teaching can use Teacher Dashboard and Google Chat to guide the learners as they complete the task, feeding back live as the learners complete the task by commenting on the photos, videos and presentations.

Richard Poth

Team Callister

Richard Poth

ICT Integrator

Google Certified Trainer

Nexus International School

Twitter : @richtheteach

Map your school

Get the kids to set up a google map to map different areas in their school. Could help with visitors and a fantastic way to help new students find their way around the school.

Rebekah - Team Silverbrook

I think there is something special that we can do with Google Hangouts. Our kids are already using Skype to study. Google Hangout will allow them to be in large groups, watch videos, colloborate on GoogleDocs, livestream, and post on YouTube. This is something amazing and transformative. Can't wait to see it in action.

Rebekah on behalf of Team Silverbrook.

Collaborative Tools

The collaborative nature of Google Docs is totally orsum. It totally wows people with it simplicity and wowness.

Allanah- Team Silverbrook

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Automated scripts are great for the classroom

Automated scripts using AutoCrat and FormMule are going to be very useful back in our classrooms.

Before a workshop, we can use a form to take registrations and then automatically put the learning resources into a folder in the attendees Google Drive, and send them an email with a link to it!

After a workshop or a class, the participants or the students can fill in feedback and select which areas they want to learn more about...then they just get an email with that specific stuff in it. No information overload!

GO TEAM CLAY!!!!!!!!

THING

as a result of using youtube we created this video

http://youtu.be/3o7B71BTEZI

enjoy our planet

ken

Custom Search is Awesome

This is Awesome,

Love the power of Google Custom Search to create a search engine that provides students with a specialised search engine of specific sites that can almost guarantee results which can be trusted!!

And why not get your students to create one of their own to prove they know the most authoritative and reliable sources

Joe/Team Clay (or should that read Team Awesome)

Google A day Skillz

Encourage your class to refine their search skills by using Google a Day in your class.  Make it a competition to see which kid, or group can accumulate the most points across the term, to achieve the title of Google Genius

"Collaborating with the World"

Thring

Using Autocrat and Docotpus to create creative writing activity based on google form.

Doctopus Madness

Add the Doctopus Script to a Google Doc to easily share a doc with your whole class.  Its awesome!  #teamclay

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D. Piercey

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." ~ Groucho Marx

Google Docs for Collaborative reflection

When reflecting with a large group, google docs with an embedded table can be a great way of doing it! It enables learners to get ideas from each other and expand on them, while also recording their reflections for later use.

Using Google News to Step Back in Time

Using the Google News archive at http://news.google.com/newspapers we can have our students look back and analyse original sources from historic events. These could be thematic studies (e.g. the portrayal of women over time) or looks at specific events (e.g. a specific major flood).

From the very something awesome Team Thring

Google Apps Resources

This blog post well worth checking out for resources.

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/p/google-for-educators_22.html

Also has  some reasons listed for WHY schools should use GAFE

Dorothy

Team Rutherford

Ideas never end

Team Tesla Collaborating Kings and Queens

My great team - Birchall

Here is my team ! Birchall. Glad to know you and everyone at GTA and all the leaders here : )

Let hangout more at our Community on G+

Regards,
Kay Jarunee 

Bangkok 

Google forms as teacher reflection

Have a regular feedback form to ask the students about how they feel in the classroom. What was their favourite lesson? What material are they still struggling with? What could have made the lesson better?

Make it anonymous to breed freer student reflection

BIrchall Group

BABY SLAM - quick ideas for collaboration with AMAZING results

BABY SLAM - quick collaboration ideas for amazing results in your classroom

Presented to you by the most AWESOME TEAM TESLA

Research- research tool, students collaborate on a Google doc on assignments, they break the assignment up into parts and each set off to research the different aspects. They add their information to the Google doc for the benefit of all group members. Students use the 'comment section' to give each other feedback as to the relevance of their information and other aspects such as copyright, plagiarism and relevance. Students also add the teacher and they give feedback as the students research also.

Organisation and communication - Sports team rosters, uniform numbers, hometowns, etc, can be made to share information and later used for pamphlets and document creation.

Year Book magic -  used for gathering information for a yearbook segment. (ie) "what you'll miss most about high school".

Collaborate with a school service club to create a slideshow to present to the school on a current issue.

Sign up sheets - can be made public for editing - share a "Sign Up" doc with parents who want to sign up to help with a school project.

Have a DRIVE folder for photo sharing for a yearbook or photography class.

Embedding surveys / questionnaires in a website to gather feedback from kids / parents using Google Forms

Google Forms - when students create a presentation, they also design a form which their peers fill out during their presentation. The purpose of this is to assist students with active listening, evaluating, critiquing and also feedback for the presenter.

Shared class review of units being studied via google docs. Each week students are allocated a job eg news reporter, note taker etc. They contribute notes/review to the Google doc which helps students compile a list of study notes over the duration of the term.

Use a Google form to pull down location based data, then map this to show the location of people completing it.

Google Presentation - Use of a shared presentation and embedded video from YouTube/Pictures of practical activities with students leaving comments about the practical activity on each slides. It becomes some what like voicethread

WeVideo - collaborative video editing in the cloud. Links with your Google Drive. Upload to YouTube.

Video Notes: http://www.videonot.es - Links with Google Drive. Watch videos and take notes then save to your Drive. Great for research.

Plot learning on Google Maps for country studies

From the INCREDIBLE TEAM TESLA

ASIJ Forensics Blog

Not just another education blog, ASIJ Forensics takes it to the next level!

http://asijforensics.blogspot.com.

Darling Harbour

It was nice morning and I am with 51 teachers all over the 13 countries who are passionate with technology and ready to inspire people.. It is awesome.

Nice and simple but.....

Have students create a "Who, when, where, why, what, how" story using Presentation and shuffle the slides of various students, to come up with funny stories.

Awesome GTA Sydney

GTA Sydney starts on Tuesday May 7th.
Already the tribe is gathering and Tweets and G+ messages are coming thick and fast as the latest cohort of GCTs land in Sydney.

Welcome to all you OSUM people.