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Why Google Docs (or any other cloud service for that matter?)

• You forgot your flash drive! (Big Bang Theory video)

Introducing a New Google Docs

Key Sites:

• Google Docs: http://docs.google.com
• Google Docs Help:  http://docs.google.com/support
• Google Sites: http://sites.google.com/
• Google Sites Help: http://sites.google.com/support/

Examples of Google Docs & Sites in K-12 Settings

I used Google Docs to collect the following examples of how educators are using Google Docs & Sites. The document is open for anyone to edit without logging in, so please contribute your own examples. Big thanks to Cathy Nelson for getting the word out on this via facebook & twitter.  Within minutes of her tweeting this, the page was filling up!!!

Tom Barrett has another wonderful crowd-sourced presentation on Interesting Uses of Google Docs in the classroom.

Google Forms

• DHS Media Center Cavalier Reading Recommendation Form to collect book purchase suggestions from staff & students. Linked to from sidebar of their blog: Cathy Nelson, Dorman High School
• New Moon Quotes Quiz “At our New Moon Book Discussion/Movie preview, we had a quiz-- and then we reviewed the correct answers with a cellphone poll” Cathy Nelson, Dorman High School
• Health Fair Student Exit Survey - Cathy Nelson, Dorman High School
• Home Computer and Technology Use Survey -Rachael Costello-Pentucket Reg. HS
• Post-Professional Development Survey- Rachael Costello-Pentucket Reg. HS
• Library Orientation Exit Quiz/Survey-Rachael
• Presentation Zen Self-Assessment, Form is embedded inside a LibGuide page. Buffy Hamilton, Creekview High School -
• Advisory Class Interest Inventory - Cathy Nelson, Dorman High School
• Library Snapshot Day survey for elementaries -- Shannon Foley, Cedar Creek Elementary
• National Geography Week Survey - Karen McMillan, created by my seventh graders and sent out via Twitter and Facebook. We heard from every continent, including Antarctica.
• NYS Three Apples Book Award Voting - Molly Clark, Riley Elementary School. Embedded form on the school library page to make voting easy for the kids and counting easy for me.
• Here is an embedded Book/Character matching contest we ran earlier this year. Cathy Nelson, Dorman High School

Google Spreadsheets

• DHS Media Center Schedule Teachers can check to see when there are blocks of time available in the library. Cathy Nelson, Dorman High School
• School Districts Utilizing Twitter - Lee Kolbert

Google Docs

• Harris Burdick Global Project - Planning and logistics - Owned by Lisa Parisi and Brian Cosby (but shared with and by Cathy Nelson, Dorman High School)
• Sophomore English classes did notecards in Google Docs, invited teachers in to share/grade (Carolyn Foote Westlake HS)

Google Presentations

• "Can We Work Together?" Using Online Collaborative Tools  - Cathy Nelson, Dorman High School & Fran Bullington, Boiling Springs High School
• See an embedded google presentation in a blog post as we showcase our upcoming SCASL Book Award Nominees for next year in our library blog. Cathy Nelson, DOrman High School
• Twenty Four Interesting Ways to Use Google Docs in the Classroom - a collaborative slideshow with examples like the ones here. Consider adding your examples to this presentation by Tom Barrett

Google Sites

• SCASL 2010 Conference - Cathy Nelson, Dorman High School
• AASL 2009 Conference Presentation:  Buffy Hamilton, Creekview High School
• The Unquiet Library:  Buffy Hamilton, Creekview High School
• Media 21 Spring 2010 Course Page/The Unquiet Library, Buffy Hamilton, Creekview High School
• Using Google Apps - Karen McMillan, aka McTeach (includes a link to my students’ screencasts on using the various Apps)
• Middle School 80x Library, by Chris Gibson, Bronx NY  
• BSHS LMC  Fran Bullington - Boiling Springs High School in South Carolina
• Greatest Canadian Hero - Students selected their heroes, wrote biographies, added voting widget.  Danika Barker

More Resources

• Google for Teachers I - Wonderful free publication by Richard Byrne with lots of great tips for using Google Tools.
• Google for Teachers II  - More terrific tips  from Richard Byrne.