Google Apps

Making Google Work Better for You

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Below are a few resources to help you get the most out of Google searching:

 

 

 

 

3 Cool Ways to Visualize Data For Enhanced Understanding

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Below are three examples that are included in the Social Studies Data site that we will play with today and Thursday during Google school (rm 110 12:20-40)

 

3) GAP Minder is an excelled source for motion charts, however your students can create their own with Google spreadsheets.

 
Lots of fantastic ideas about data for learning have come from Warren Apel to dig deeper check out his Super Charting site.

Google School Today

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Today’s Google school will cover a quick overview of the similarities and differences between Word and Google docs.

 

Google Docs Only

Word Only

Easily published to the web

More fonts, addins (Math symbols) and document formatting features

Documents easily edited by multiple people

Track changes

Revision history tracked

Mail merge

Context spell check

  Drawing functionality

Google School Today

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Today’s session is a repeat of from last Thursday.

Before this session you should:
      Have set up Google Drive
Know what the cloud is (Google School 101)

 

In this session you will:

  •  Get to know your Drive 
    My Drive (Shared with me, Starred and Recent View, Activity and All items, Trash View)
         Add files to Google Drive using sync from your tablet directly
    Upload files and folders to Google Drive through a web browser (eg. Chrome)


Google Drive 101- What is the cloud anyway?

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Now that you all have successfully migrated away from P drive it’s time for Google school.  Between now and the December break at lunchtime on Tuesdays and Thursdays a series of sessions will be offered.  In order to make informed decisions about how and where you use information by way of Google products and how you use Google Apps in the classroom without being schooled by Google’s trickiness please attend any or all sessions face to face or follow the instructions yourself online (yes you can take an online course:)).

 

The first session starts today in room 110 at lunchtime and will be repeated on Thursday.