YouTube - Teachers, Principals and students talk about Google Docs
Overview of Google Apps with a tutorial for Google Docs
If you don't have a google account, today you can use the username eagleschoolrules and the password coolkids.
Using Google Docs in the classroom- directions for getting started
Docs for Teachers - Real examples of usage
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Group Evaluation- A sample use of a form
Lesson Plan Search for use with Google Docs
Google Docs Applications Classroom Uses |
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User Group |
Forms |
Spreadsheet |
Document |
Presentation |
| Administrators | Collecting data, Creating forms for administrative tasks, sending out confirmations, conducting and/or parent teacher surveys | Accounting work like budgeting and tracking expenses, collecting data, tracking setting up interviews, tracking overall class grades and school grades, meeting compliance guidelines | School papers and newsletters, letters to teachers or parents, letters for school business affairs, any job that requires a word processor | Creating presentations for the student body, administration staff, teachers, superintend ant, school board, public school board meetings |
| Teachers | Collect student data, create quizzes or tests, creating forms for the classroom, sending out confirmations, conducting student/parent surveys | Web-based scheduling parent/teacher conferences, tracking grades, comparing student results, storing student data, tracking attendance, comprehensive skills tracking, math and accounting classes | Parent Newsletters, lectures, letters to parents, class instructions, class syllabus, grammar lessons, writing memos, any assignment or job that requires a word processor | Lectures and presentations about classroom topics, presentation to parents about class progress, presentation to principal regarding classroom issues, any project requiring presentation software |
| Students | Surveys as a class project, creating forms for a class project, completing quizzes and tests | Learning how to use a spreadsheet, project-based assignments, math assignments, accounting assignments | Outlines, formal papers, various writing assignments, collaborative project-based assignments, any assignment that requires the use of a word processor. Includes spell check, word count and reading level. | Presentation software is excellent for project-based learning. Teachers assign subjects to students, and presenting the research in a presentation is the best way of communicating what students have learned |
source for this chart: http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/frankm/EDTECH597/docs.html