1. The document discusses using Google Apps for academic and learning purposes. It outlines the pros and cons of using Google Apps in the classroom. 2. Top Google Apps for learning discussed include Google Docs, Google Scholar, Google Alerts, Google Reader, Google Groups, and Google Maps. 3. The presentation recommends creating an action team to map out how to best implement and train faculty and staff on using Google Apps to enhance collaboration.

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3. Agenda
1. Overview
2. Technology in the Learning Space
Initiative
3. Google Apps for the Classroom ... Pros
and Cons
4. Top Google Apps for Learning
5. Questions/Discussion
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4. See the academic
connections to this
initiative:
http://
www.montgomerycollege.edu/
ctl/blended/andy/engage.html
or http://tinyurl.com/mc-tilsi
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5. TILSI Goals
• Increase the use of technology in the
classroom to enhance instruction
• Assist faculty in utilizing technology for
collaborative, project based assignments
• Nurture a culture of peer training, user-
generated content, and universally shared
technology resources for faculty
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6. About Google
• Comes from the word “Googol’ .. Math
term for 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
– Company goal is “to organize the world’s
information and make it universally
accepted and useful
• Google Apps are web based (cloud
computing) and self-contained within a
browser (with some offline usage
available)
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7. Google In the Classroom
• Pros
• Cons
– Provides a collaborative • Technology may be
space
new to students
– Freedom from desktop • Internet connection is
apps ($$$)
needed
– Provides all in 1 • Limited support
solution – video, • Security/privacy
pictures, portfolios . . .
concerns
– Easier to share • Applications may be
documents
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Classroom use assumes students sign up on their own . . . Class specific

8. Google for Faculty
• Centralized work space promotes social
learning . . . peer networks (blogs/
portfolios)
• Requires a shift in behavior (network effect)
• Departmental networks would make it
easier for remote collaboration and
promote collective intelligence
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9. Top 10 Google Applications
for Learning
• Google Alerts: • Google Scholar:
www.google.com/alerts
www.scholar.google.com/intl/en/
scholar/about
– Email updates on
searches
– Provides a broad way to
search scholarly
– Alerts are sent when
literature
new new search
results are found
– Assists with relevancy
– Retrospective vs – Provides peer-reviewed
prospective searching
papers, theses, books,
abstracts
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10. Top 10 Google Applications
for Learning
• Searches
– Book Search
– Custom Search
• google.com/coop/cse
– Blog Search
– Google Search
• Define: pedagogy
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11. Better Seen than Described . .
• Google Docs – online productivity suite
• Google Reader – subscribe to blogs
• Google Groups – create online discussions
• Google Maps – virtual field trips/spatial
representations of world
• Knol: Unit of knowledge . . . Resembles a wiki
but without anonymous comments
– tinyurl.com/q7hdrm
• Google Sites: Template Based web pages
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– http://sites.helenbarrett.net/portfolio

12. Honorable Mention
• Google Translate
– Tranlates into 34 languages
• Google Chat/Talk
– Free video chat or just text based
• Google Video (YouTube is owned by Google . . .
Video sharing)
• Picasa
• Google Sketch-Up
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13. Other Promising Factoids
• Google Code: Enterprise application tie-in with
Google code
• Google Mobile -- www.google.com/mobile
– Allows access via mobile devices
– Works with search, maps,YouTube and others
• Google provides a considerable amount of free
storage . . . Accessible from anywhere
• Collaboration is becoming an essential workplace
skill… Google embodies collaboration
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14. Recommendations
• Need to create an action team (end-user
architects) to map out high impact functionalities
of Google apps for both staff and faculty
– Do not rely on end users to learn best practices, we
must identify them
• Align roll out of new technology with training . . .
This worked well with MS Office 2007
• Create an opportunity for administrators to learn
(at a high . . .Very high) new technologies, they
must be conversable in new(er) technologies
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