It's About Process: Streamline Teaching Processes with Google Apps Daniel Rezac, GTA, CO '09 Technology Instructor Fremont Middle School drezac.com Illinois Computing Educators Conference February 25, 2010

What is the teaching process?

(There's nothing funny about grading)

First Day of School Google Spreadsheets allow me to outsource my Seating Chart, but also make it an interactive experience.Seating Char

First Day of School This form allows me to immediately ask for student usernames and passwords choices, which can be given to the admin for adding users to Google Apps and other sites.form

Lesson Planning- Presentations Why hasn't the Lesson Plan evolved? Every day I create an interactive lesson plan using Google Presentations. Links are hot, videos are embedded. Click here to view this one. evolved here

Lesson Planning- Presentations By using the Speaker Notes Section, I can paste in the related standards for the lesson.

Lesson Planning- Presentations For any terms, I can offer hot links, to give students additional information.

Lesson Planning- Presentations To guide learning, I can embed any related tutorials or videos right into the lesson plan. (Gagne's 5th Step.)Step

Lesson Planning- Presentations Now that Docs let's you share folders, I can put all of my Lesson Plans in a folder, then share those with my Principal.

Homework- Calendar and Presentations Homework calendars are embedded right into my Teacher Site. Teacher

Homework- Calendar and Presentations Individual assignments can have documents (and previous lessons) attached.

Homework- Calendar and Presentations Create and embed a presentation and add a new slide every day! That way kids can flip back in time to check previous HW.embedpresentation

Content Delivery- Youtube and Tutorials For any observable skill, you can create tutorials, and embed those into your lesson. Create a channel in youtube. Mine is youtube.com/misterrezac youtube.com/misterrezac Gagne's Fifth Step (providing learning guidance).

Grading- Formative Assessment I used to use interactive journals for my science class every day.

Grading- Formative Assessment I still do. In Google Sites. Students can embed HTML widgets, Docs, Google Gadgets, draw pictures and more. do

Forms allow me to survey my kids on any given day.survey my kids Grading- Formative Assessment

Forms give me instant results. I have very little need for clickers in a 1-1 environment. Grading- Formative Assessment

Forms allow me to give a self-grading quiz. Also called a Digital Scantron. self-grading Grading- Formative and Summative Assessment

Docs or Spreadsheets allow me to fill out individual rubrics and share them with the student. individual rubrics Grading- Summative Assessment

Gradebook. I don't use Google as a gradebook, but here is a possibility. here Grading- Summative Assessment

Teaching Strategies- Docs Text Coding is something that I have done since I began teaching. From Doug Buehl's book. For Meta-cognition.Doug Buehl's Sample docSample doc.

I use template frames often when I'm having students write letters or re-create professional documents. template frames Teaching Strategies- Docs

I use Presentations to play the Riveting game to introduce new vocabulary, or maybe for review. Riveting game Teaching Strategies- Presentations

Teaching Strategies- Docs A Sequential Roundtable Alphabet is a great way to introduce and then summarize an activity. Sequential Roundtable Alphabe

Teaching Strategies- Docs A Story Star is a strategy that can be used to help students understand a theme to any writing or story. Story Star

Teaching Strategies- Docs I might use an Analogy Graphic Org. to get in depth about Bullying or a concept we are reading about. Analogy Graphic Org

Teaching Strategies- Sites Do you have a Word Wall? With Wallwisher, I created an online "Parking Lot," that students can access anywhere, through my teacher site.Parking Lot,

Curriculum Planning

And Finally... Use the tools, but don't forget the strategies!!!

Rezac's Google Docs Links: If you have a Google Account, you can "copy these documents." Seating Chart Example Student User Names Spreadsheet and Form SpreadsheetForm Chris L. Atkinson's Homework SiteSite Using Interactive Science Journals -.pdf file pdf file Digital Scantron Template from Youssef Elias, GCTTemplate Project Rubric Template, thanks to Chris Lehmann at Science Leadership Academy Template Template Frame Sample*Sample Sequential Roundtable Alphabet Doc Sample. *Sample Story Star Sample*Sample Analogy Graphic Organizer- Sample *Sample Mr. Rezac's Technology Mainpage (Parking Lot with Wallwisher)(Parking Lot with Wallwisher) More Important Links: Google for Educators Google Teacher Academy Google for Educators Discussion Group Google Docs Template Gallery References: *Buehl, d. (2001). Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning. Barksdale, DE: International Reading Association.

Images Resources: Apps logo: Books: Thinker: Stacked Books: Homework: Graffit: Tattered book: Wolves: Sleeping class: Other Resources: Lessonplans4teachers.com PDF lesson plan template. PDF lesson plan template. Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction Other important links: