Using Free Google Tools to Facilitate Classroom Instruction, Collaboration and Instructor Time Management

Do you Google? Learn how to use FREE and easy Google Apps as tools to grab your Google-generation student’s attention and enhance your classroom lessons. All are very user-friendly, ideal for both the technology-challenged and experts alike!Don’t just talk about the desert landscape; zoom in on a live view with Google Earth! Customize directions for ESL students using Google Translator. Create a classroom website with Google Sites. Explore King Tut’s tomb via Google Videos and follow up with an online quiz game on Ancient Egypt. Bring up the Globe Theatre, fractal art or Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa on Google Images. Expand your collaboration capabilities using Google Apps Education and tap into other professionals’ lesson plans. Even print out posters to use in your classroom!By the end of the course, you will be more familiar with various free classroom resources that are available for your use. You will find ways to use applications to breathe new life into your classroom instruction and to help you turn 21st century technology into tools that work for you.

Teachers enrolled in this course will...

Know

  1. what free Google applications and educational resources are available
  2. how to develop curriculum-based uses for Google applications such as Maps, Videos and Images, Sites, Translator, Moderator and Apps Educator
  3. how certain Google applications can enhance and augment current lessons

Understand

  1. how to integrate curriculum guidelines and learning standards into lessons through the use of Google applications
  2. the pros and cons of using 21st century technology for 21st century students
  3. how to access and utilize online resources available from Google
  4. the benefits of using Google applications in the classroom to engage students and increase retention

and Be Able To

  1. design and create classroom-enhancing and curriculum-specific projects and lessons incorporating Google applications
  2. identify and implement the elements of an effective lesson utilizing Google applications
  3. create effective projects and lessons that appeal to all levels of learners
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