Influencing policy (training slides from Fast Track Impact)
Boost Your Teaching with Google Tools and Office 365
1. Dawson College: Ped Day 2016
Boost Your Teaching with
Google Tools and Office 365
Rafael Scapin, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Educational Technology
Dawson College
October 14th, 2016
2. • Using Google Search: Tricks and Techniques
• Learn how to use Google Drive/One Drive to store and share
your files
• Creating your First document in Google Docs & Office
• Starting with Google Sheets/Excel and Google
Slides/Powerpoint
• Create surveys using Google Forms and get instant feedback
• Improving Google Docs Features with Add-Ons (Apps)
Content
3. • How to use Google Calendar on your Teaching
• Learn How to Use Google Images Effectively
• How to Use Google Sites to create your own website
• Using Youtube: Creating and Sharing your Videos
• Google Hangout: Bring Keynote Speakers to Your
Classroom!
• Office 365 Overview: Word, Excel, Powerpoint,
OneNote and more!
Content
11. How the World is Searching
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2443825/Google-rules-West-Japan-prefers-Yahoo-Map-reveals-
different-internet-giants-dominate-countries-globe.html
Image Source: : http://www.fastcocreate.com/3019595/creativity-by-the-numbers/see-a-map-of-the-world-revealing-each-countrys-most-visited-websit
22. Google Search: Tricks
Source: http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/
Google Operators: http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html
24. Hands-On
A Google A Day
http://www.agoogleaday.com/
The three-lobed leaves of a tall tree are
powdered and used in a traditional New
Orleans dish, and the bark is the traditional
flavoring for a soft drink. What drink is it?
Answer:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qaa4UUMdvvulG3IK0bbNsxZwdhi
DXGxMtaHgg0-Yw54/edit#slide=id.p18
25. Google Power Searching Courses
Source: http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/
Improve your Google search skills with Power Searching and
Advanced Power Searching online courses.
26. Google Search: Exercises
1. Use the site: operator to search for armchairs on IKEA’s
site, www.ikea.com.
2. Find all pages on The New York Times (nyt.com) which include
the word “Montreal” but not “Toronto”.
3. Find pages whose titles include surfing that are not about
surfing the World Wide Web.
28. Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple
way to broadly search for scholarly
literature.
Articles, theses, books, abstracts and
court opinions, from academic
publishers, professional societies,
online repositories, universities and
other web sites.
Google Scholar helps you find
relevant work across the world of
scholarly research.
https://scholar.google.com
44. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Google Drive – Sharing Files/Folders
45. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Google Drive – Synchronous Editing
Source: http://youtu.be/A7y7NafWXeM
46. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Sharing Files in Moodle / Lea
Advantage
Files are updated
automatically in Moodle
after you make any
changes in the original
one in Google Drive!
56. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
EasyBib allows you to cite your sources the easiest way you
can all in Google Docs. You can have sources cited in MLA,
Chicago, and APA format.
57. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
Hellofax allows individuals to send faxes to and
from other people through Google Drive.
58. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
Kaizena allows teachers to give voice
feedback to their students.
59. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
The Speech Recognition add-on will allow you
to use speech recognition to write your Google
Docs documents.
60. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
The Translate add-on uses Google Translate to
translate text in your documents.
61. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
Tag Cloud Generator generates a tag cloud for
Google Docs with more than 50 words
62. Google Docs in the Classroom
• Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your
students record their group projects together in a single doc.
• Keep track of grades, attendance, or any other data
• Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a
document shared with you.
• They can provide feedback in the document. Teachers can offer
advice which may lead to higher grades.
• Teachers can use the revisions history to find out who has actually
helped on the project and evaluate individual participation and
content.
• Teachers can discover who is not participating and have the
opportunity to correct the situation.
66. Improve the Writing Process
Use Google Docs to:
• Have students work collaboratively from anywhere
• Give students ongoing and simultaneous feedback
• Use revision history to hold students accountable for
their work
• Publish student work
70. Google Calendar
• Create your personal calendar
• Create your Dawson College calendar
• Integrate it on your smartphone/tablet (through apps)
• Tasks
• Offline Calendar
• Share your Calendar
Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jn37bntLWwrwwnJCW-
EvWzyqluvr76evGI9SD6cRXcM/edit#slide=id.g1c722964b_078
71. Google Calendar Tricks
Receive a daily email with your agenda
Google Calendar can email you a daily agenda so you can
see your entire schedule at a glance.
First access the Reminders and Notifications menu, and
then check the box next to Daily Agenda.
Each morning at 5 a.m. in your time zone, Google will
send a complete agenda straight to your email inbox.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/guide-google-tools-tips-tricks-
cant-live-without/#googlecalendar
106. Office 365: OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is a program for free-form information
gathering and multi-user collaboration.
It gathers users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings,
screen clippings and audio commentaries.
Notes can be shared with otherOneNote users over the
Internet or a network.
107. Office 365: Sway
A Sway (equivalent of a document or presentation) is
composed of multiple cards that are combined into a storyline.
Cards are containers that hold text, images and videos.
You can combine cards into groups.
A collection of cards make up the storyline.
108. Office 365: Planner
Planner makes it easy for teams to create new plans, organize
and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you’re working
on, and get updates on progress.
https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-planner
109. Office 365: Video
A kind of Youtube for companies
https://products.office.com/en-us/business/explore-office-365-video
110. Office 365: Sharepoint
A browser-based collaboration and
document management platform
https://collegedawson.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx
111. Office 365: Delve
Delve helps you discover the information across
Office 365.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-is-Office-Delve-
1315665a-c6af-4409-a28d-49f8916878ca