As presented in the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ksK2uzDW-4 it is a great tool for teachers to collect and revise data about students and contribute to collaborative learning. With the color coding it's clear who edited, what was deleted and also the teacher can look at the earlier version of the document.
Also, it's worth mentioning that our class uses google doc to collaborate. For example in the class of Second Language Acquisition we did our Evaluation Charts in Google doc. Even the recipe of the cheese cake was shared in this way.
I liked the way of creating survey questions and I wish I could create the survey questions of my Capstone Project in this way: one of the major things about this is that the data is seen in real time and another one is that google does some basic analysis for you.
Google sites is also a magic tool. I liked the idea of uploading my resume and spreading throughout the world(may be I can find a prospective job for me :)). But there is also an opportunity to allow it for a restricted number of people (Bernard, 2011).
Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpnxyNm8x_0 you can watch a video tutorial about how to upload images to Google Picasa.
And now the question is how google apps can be used on the campus???
In the article by Sarah Ring (2011) different google apps are suggested for different teaching purposes. One of them is google maps which can be used before a field trip. Through it students study the area and create their personalized maps. Using blogger permits to update and edit your posts from anywhere. I myself use blogger and know how effectively it works.
Google Teacher Academy apps would be preferable for those teachers who want to get the most out of tech tools. By the way, Google + could create discussion groups without having to worry about the followers that come up with Facebook or Twitter. Google Hangouts allows up to 10 people to video chat ith one another.This app is suitable for public gatherings (Watters, 2011). Retrieved from:http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/07/how-are-educators-using-google-plus-hangouts/
Now we know how google apps can be implemented in education. And the time has come to see
it in the lesson plans.
From the lesson plans suggested by our instructor to observe I chose the one entitled: The Place in Time with Google tools by Cheryl Davis
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=16kkKBqOlLdBjLQoJ7eSq1jqia6XOQ5AeIkaUm2GqCa8 The Impact of Photography. One of the instruments used in this lesson is google site where teacher creates a class Google Site and adds students as collaborators.In teams or individually, students create page in the class site and link to a historic photograph, research the history or context in which the photograph was taken and provide information on the photograph. I think, this is a very meaningful and productive lesson because it not only develops geographic literacy but introduces to the history of photography as well.
Another major tool is cloud computing. No servers and storage, no technical team, no upgrades, just open a browser, log in, customize the apps and start using it.
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It is a software delivered over the internet to interact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88ysB-EKA9U There is no need to install the data in all the computers of the community. It allows the user to access a web browser regardless of place.
However, too much personal information in the cloud is not recommended. It would be much better to be flexible and make the existing limitations a strength to use both.
As a future EFL teacher I would strongly recommend using google apps as a tool through which various interesting activities could be done and cloud computing, which will allow to share any information via internet without having to install it in all the computers of that institution. Google apps make the lessons more interactive and cloud computing would help to save time and money.
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