Coaching in and out of the classroom: Google docs

Monday, July 30, 2012

Google Teacher Academy Application

Whew! My application made it!

This past Sunday was the submission day for application for Google Teacher Academy. It is ironic that the submission day was also my birthday. I'm hoping that is a good sign.

I'm hoping to be selected to learn aside many other GTA educators and continue to network and build my Professional Learning Network.

What do I hope to gain from GTA:

Connect with educators from all over the world
Build and grow my Professional Learning Network
Add my expertise in grading, assessment and flip-teaching to the GTA
Improve my knowledge and skill in the area of Google Apps
The ability to come back to my district and train other educators since we are a google Apps district.
Become a better user of sketchUp
Begin and continue my love of Google Products!

My GTA video:

Information about Google Teacher Academy:

The GTA is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies. Produced by CUE, each Academy is an intensive, two-day event during which participants get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in a supportive community of educators making impact.

-http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/google-teacher-academy.html

What is Google Teacher Academy?: http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/google-teacher-academy.html

About Google Teacher Academy: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/about-google-teacher-academy.html

Google Teacher Academy Resources: https://sites.google.com/site/gtaresources/

Sample GTA agenda: https://sites.google.com/site/gtaresources/events/2011-04-20

Fingers crossed.....

For those of you outside my district we have a web 2.0 PD day coming up on April 15th.

To prepare for this day we brainstormed lists of Web 2.0 Items and then gave each teacher a set of dots. Dots were placed on butcher paper next to the web 2.0 items they were most interested in learning about. From here I created a top 10, gather presenters and reserved spaces.

We will have 15 minute sessions and have time for teachers to interact with the presenters afterword to gain further understand and depth. We're calling this activity "SPEED GEEKING" it's set up similar to speed dating :-).

To prepare for our PD day we're creating here a list of resources for before and after our PD day to access whenever needed. If you have more resources that fit into these categories please share them through the comments below!

Here goes!

TOP 10 resource for April 15th PD day.

1. Google docs

Google Docs 101: http://stumpteacher.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-docs-101.html#edchat

A guide to going Google

http://www.technologybitsbytesnibbles.info/archives/2857?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+technologybitsbytesnibbles%2FAZit+%28Technology+Bits%2C+Bytes+%26+Nibbles+from+Cyndi+Danner-Kuhn%29

Good tutorial

http://edutech.msu.edu/online/GoogleDocs/GoogleDocs.html

Good tutorial from google: http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews_breeze/DocsSpreadsheets/index.html

Video: