Presented on October 16th, 2015 for Dawson's Pedagogical Day.

1. Dawson College: Ped Day 2015
Boost Your Teaching with Google Tools
Rafael Scapin, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Educational Technology
Dawson College
October 16th, 2015

2. • Using Google Search: Tricks and Techniques
• Learn how to use Google Drive to store and share your files
• Creating your First document in Google Docs
• Starting with Google Sheets and Google Presentation
• Create surveys using Google Forms and get instant feedback
• Improving Google Docs Features with Add-Ons (Apps)
Content

3. • How to use Google Calendar on your Teaching
• Learn How to Use Google Images Effectively
• How to Use Google Sites to create your own website
• Using Youtube: Creating and Sharing your Videos
• Google Hangout: Bring Keynote Speakers to Your
Classroom!
Content

4. Before We Start: Create a Google Account

5. Before We Start: Create a Google Account
https://accounts.google.com/SignUp

6. Source: Go-Globe.com

7. InfoWhelm
Source: http://youtu.be/cWkQq5qmdmc

8. How the World is Searching
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2443825/Google-rules-West-Japan-prefers-Yahoo-Map-reveals-
different-internet-giants-dominate-countries-globe.html
Image Source: : http://www.fastcocreate.com/3019595/creativity-by-the-numbers/see-a-map-of-the-world-revealing-each-countrys-most-visited-websit

9. How Google Search Works
Source: http://youtu.be/BNHR6IQJGZs

10. Searching as Part of Our Daily Life

11. Google Search Tricks
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/guide-google-tools-tips-tricks-cant-live-without/

12. Google Search Operators

13. Google Search Operators

14. Google Advanced Search
https://www.google.com/advanced_search

15. Google Search Operators: Examples

16. Google Search Operators: Examples

17. Google Search Operators: Examples

18. Google Search Operators: Examples

19. Google Search Operators: Examples

20. Google Search: Tricks
Source: http://mashable.com/2011/11/24/google-search-infographic/
Google Operators: http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html

21. Google Search Poster
http://www.socialscience.uq.edu.au/documents/forms/infoskills_operators1.pdf

22. Hands-On
A Google A Day
http://www.agoogleaday.com/
The three-lobed leaves of a tall tree are
powdered and used in a traditional New
Orleans dish, and the bark is the traditional
flavoring for a soft drink. What drink is it?
Answer:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qaa4UUMdvvulG3IK0bbNsxZwdhi
DXGxMtaHgg0-Yw54/edit#slide=id.p18

23. Google Power Searching Courses
Source: http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com/
Improve your Google search skills with Power Searching and
Advanced Power Searching online courses.

24. Google Search: Exercises
1. Use the site: operator to search for armchairs on IKEA’s
site, www.ikea.com.
2. Find all pages on The New York Times (nyt.com) which include
the word “Montreal” but not “Toronto”.
3. Find pages whose titles include surfing that are not about
surfing the World Wide Web.

25. Storing Information

27. Storing Information

28. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkfOYtaumew
Problems With USB Keys / Flash Drives
Copyright(C)WarnerBros.Television

29. What’s The Cloud?
http://youtu.be/TTNgV0O_oTg

30. Popular Cloud Storage Platforms

31. Popular Cloud Storage Platforms
Online Storage & Sharing Websites
2 Gb for free. 500 MB for each
referral person up to 18 GB
(free). $99/year for 1 Terabyte
15 GB for free. $1.99/month for
100 Gb. $9.99/month 1 Terabyte

32. How Safe is it?
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-now-encrypts-cloud-storage-by-default/

33. How Safe is it?

34. Why Using Cloud Storage?
E-Mail
Traditional Way to Exchange Files

35. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Exchanging Files in the Cloud

36. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Exchanging Files in the Cloud: Multiple Devices

37. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Cloud Storage Platforms Create Folders on your Computer

38. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Google Drive Folder (on your Computer)

39. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Google Drive (online)

40. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Google Drive – Sharing Files/Folders

41. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Google Drive – Synchronous Editing
Source: http://youtu.be/A7y7NafWXeM

42. Why Using Cloud Storage?
Sharing Files in Moodle / Lea
Advantage
Files are updated
automatically in Moodle
after you make any
changes in the original
one in Google Drive!

43. Store Students’ Documents Online
Storing Assignments & Sending Feedback

44. Google Docs
Google’s equivalent to MS Word
https://docs.google.com/document/

45. Google Docs
Google’s equivalent to MS Word
https://zapier.com/blog/google-docs-tips/

46. Google Docs
Shared Document
http://bit.ly/dawsondoc

47. Google Sheets
Google’s equivalent to MS Excel
https://sheets.google.com/document/
http://bit.ly/dawsonexcel

48. Google Slides
Google’s equivalent to MS Powerpoint
https://slides.google.com/document/
http://www.slidescarnival.com/category/free-templates

49. Editing Google Docs Offine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ZaUJ44X2s

50. Office Editing Chrome Plugin
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/office-editing-for-docs-
s/gbkeegbaiigmenfmjfclcdgdpimamgkj?hl=en

51. Google Docs Add-Ons
Let’s add useful “add-ons” to our documents!

52. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
EasyBib allows you to cite your sources the easiest way you
can all in Google Docs. You can have sources cited in MLA,
Chicago, and APA format.

53. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
Hellofax allows individuals to send faxes to and
from other people through Google Drive.

54. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
Kaizena allows teachers to give voice
feedback to their students.

55. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
The Speech Recognition add-on will allow you
to use speech recognition to write your Google
Docs documents.

56. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
The Translate add-on uses Google Translate to
translate text in your documents.

57. The Best Google Docs Add-Ons
Tag Cloud Generator generates a tag cloud for
Google Docs with more than 50 words

58. Google Docs in the Classroom
• Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your
students record their group projects together in a single doc.
• Keep track of grades, attendance, or any other data
• Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a
document shared with you.
• They can provide feedback in the document. Teachers can offer
advice which may lead to higher grades.
• Teachers can use the revisions history to find out who has actually
helped on the project and evaluate individual participation and
content.
• Teachers can discover who is not participating and have the
opportunity to correct the situation.

59. Collaborative Lesson Planning
Work on the same
lesson plan at the same
time with a colleague
using Google Docs.

60. Department Meeting Notes
Picture by K.W. Barrett
Take your
department meeting
notes in Google
Docs.
Share with the rest
of the staff.

61. Shared Lesson Repository
Go Paperless!

62. Improve the Writing Process
Use Google Docs to:
• Have students work collaboratively from anywhere
• Give students ongoing and simultaneous feedback
• Use revision history to hold students accountable for
their work
• Publish student work

63. Google Calendar
http://calendar.google.com

64. Create Different Google Calendars
http://calendar.google.com

65. Google Calendar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHPzCckcmXg&t=45

66. Google Calendar
• Create your personal calendar
• Create your Dawson College calendar
• Integrate it on your smartphone/tablet (through apps)
• Tasks
• Offline Calendar
• Share your Calendar
Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jn37bntLWwrwwnJCW-
EvWzyqluvr76evGI9SD6cRXcM/edit#slide=id.g1c722964b_078

67. Google Calendar Tricks
Receive a daily email with your agenda
Google Calendar can email you a daily agenda so you can
see your entire schedule at a glance.
First access the Reminders and Notifications menu, and
then check the box next to Daily Agenda.
Each morning at 5 a.m. in your time zone, Google will
send a complete agenda straight to your email inbox.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/guide-google-tools-tips-tricks-
cant-live-without/#googlecalendar

68. Google Calendar + Youcanbooke.me

69. Google Calendar + Youcanbooke.me
https://rscapin.youcanbook.me/
Your students can book your office hours

70. Google Images
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99BfDnBZcI#t=22
Google Images: is a search service that allows users to search
the Web for image content.

71. Google Images
http://images.google.com
Google Images: is a search service that allows users to
search the Web for image content.

72. Google Images: Search

73. Searching by Images
http://www.visualnews.com/2013/12/30/22-pictures-famous-people-young/

74. Storing and Sharing Images
Source: http://picasa.google.com/
Image software for your
computer

75. Storing and Sharing Images
Source: http://photos.google.com
Google Photos Online storage

76. Free Online Image Editor
http://pixlr.com/

78. Understanding Copyright

79. Source:
http://www.cmec.ca/Publications/Lists/Publications/Attachments/291/Copyright_Matters.pdf

80. Understanding Copyright
Source: http://library.selkirk.ca/servicesfor/cautcopyright.pdf

81. Source: http://creativecommons.org/choose/

82. Source: http://www.commoncraft.com/video/copyright-and-creative-commons

83. Creative Commons Licence - Example
BY = Attribution
NC= Non Commercial
ND = No Derivation

84. http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/teachers-copyright.jpg

85. Finding Free Images (No Copyright)

86. Finding Free Images (No Copyright)

87. Finding Images With Specific Sizes

88. Finding Animated Images

89. Google Sites
http://sites.google.com
Tutorial: https://sites.google.com/site/mflynchsites/

90. Create your Website (Google Sites)
Source: http://www.wix.com

91. Let’s Work with Videos
http://youtube.com

92. Let’s Work with Videos
http://www.tubechop.com/
Selecting parts of a movie

93. Let’s Work with Videos
http://keepvid.com/
Downloading Movies from Youtube
Can you download any
video from Youtube?

94. Let’s Work with Videos
http://youtu.be/NLNuv7jAIhg
Flipping the Classroom

95. Google Hangout:
Bring a Keynote to your Class!
http://hangouts.google.com

96. Google Hangout
http://hangouts.google.com

97. Creating a Google Hangout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGHdqCkf9Ik

98. Google Hangout in Education
https://sites.google.com/a/lsr7.net/hangoutsforteachers/home

99. Creating a Google Hangout
http://bit.ly/dawsonhangout

100. Google Forms
http://forms.google.com

101. Google Forms: Instant Feedback
http://bit.ly/dawsonsurvey
Go to the survey below and answer the questions:

102. GAFE Summit - Montreal
http://qc.gafesummit.com
December 5 & 6, 2015

103. Questions

104. rscapin@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
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DawsonITE Blog
http://dawsonite.dawsoncollege.qc.ca
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Rafael Scapin, Ph.D.