Google Docs 101
Learning Google Apps – Your first few days
Using Gmail at School
In any web browser, go to: http://mail.fairhavenps.net
Then enter your user name and password. (The first time you log in, you’ll be asked to take a moment to set up your account.)
Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processing, presentations and spreadsheets program.
Unlike desktop software, Google Docs lets people create web-based documents, presentations and spreadsheets that anyone in the group can update from his/her own computer, even at the same time.
Instead of emailing around files and having to deal with the confusion and extra work involved in managing different file versions and manually aggregating input from others, anyone in the group can edit the document online from anywhere — all you need is a Web browser.
And, since your docs are all stored safely in Google’s servers, you don’t have to worry about losing data from a hard drive crash or nasty virus.
Google Apps Overview
Student Work:
- Aidan’s Assignments
- Alexis’ Cyber bullying Presentation
- Taylor’s Social Networking Presentation
- Brendan’s Newsletter
- Mikala’s Survey
- Kenzie’s Dreamroom
My Use:
- Evidence Files
- Hastings Drive – Files from Server
- Student Shared Work
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Creating documents, presentation, spreadsheets & forms in Google Docs (a part of Google Drive).
Google Docs is an online word processor that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here’s what you can do with Google Docs:
- Upload a Word document and convert it to a Google document
- Add flair and formatting to your documents by adjusting margins, spacing, fonts, and colors — all that fun stuff
- Invite other people to collaborate on a document with you, giving them edit, comment or view access
- Collaborate online in real time and chat with other collaborators — right from inside the document
- View your document’s revision history and roll back to any previous version
- Download a Google document to your desktop as a Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip file
- Translate a document to a different language
- Email your documents to other people as attachments
To learn more about Google Docs, check out the Google Docs getting started guide.
Google Slides is an online presentations app that allows you to show off your work in a visual way. Here’s what you can do with Google Slides:
- Create and edit presentations
- Edit a presentation with friends or coworkers, and share it with others effortlessly
- Import .pptx and .pps files and convert them to Google presentations
- Download your presentations as a PDF, a PPT, or a .txt file
- Insert images and videos into your presentation
- Publish and embed your presentations in a website
For more information about Google presentations, check out the Google Slides getting started guide
Create a Presentation on Using Google Docs
- One partner will create a new presentation and name it “both last names Pres101″ and save it in your Google101 collection (folder). This should be shared with your partner and the instructor.
- Work with your partner synchronously or asynchronous and create a presentation on how you might use Google Docs in your teaching. Be creative and experiment with the different tools. Add these different elements in the presentation: formatted text, images, video, a hyperlink, and a shape.
- Publish your presentation.
Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet app that lets you create and format spreadsheets and simultaneously work with other people. Here’s what you can do with Google Sheets:
- Import and convert Excel, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data to a Google spreadsheet
- Export Excel, .csv, .txt and .ods formatted data, as well as PDF and HTML files
- Use formula editing to perform calculations on your data, and use formatting make it look the way you’d like
- Chat in real time with others who are editing your spreadsheet
- Create charts with your data
- Embed a spreadsheet — or individual sheets of your spreadsheet — on your blog or website
For more information about Google spreadsheets, check out the Google Sheets getting started guide.
Create a form with 6 questions and at least 4 different question types.
Optional – Advanced use of forms > Design a quiz
SURVEY on WORKSHOP
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
8 hour Training – Google Docs Modules
A Free Guide by Richard Byrne – Google Docs & Drive for Teachers (63 pages)
A guide to staying safe and secure online.
Google Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum
Google Calendar