Google Apps for Education By: Joshua Hotchin What is G.A.F.E? It - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Google Apps for Education By: Joshua Hotchin

What is G.A.F.E? It is a free collection of ● Google Applications that are provided to educational facilities and school districts. All of the information is ● held online 2

What apps are included with Google Apps for Education? Gmail Google Sites ● ● Google Documents Google Forms ● ● Google Slides Google Classroom ● ● Google Drive Google Calendar ● ● Google Sheets And more... ● ● 3

Google Apps for Education in your classroom Negatives: Benefits: Privacy Aspect ● There are many ● Not Age ● benefits of having Appropriate for G.A.F.E. in your some Grades classroom Debate about using ● We will go over ● technology for those in a minute student’s education “24/7” * We will talk about the privacy aspect further on 4

Why should you implement G.A.F.E. into your classrooms? Technology is becoming more prominent in ● the modern era (especially with students) - Its how students are brought up - Involved what they do in their spare time - How they communicate between one another - How they find information to complete their assignments “Society is progressing with technology, so why shouldn’t your classroom?” - Joshua H. 5

Why should you implement G.A.F.E. into your classrooms? It shows students how they can use their ● devices for educational purposes It can create a better communication system ● between teacher-student and teacher-parents as well Keeps students organized - No more “leaving ● homework at home” Allows students to collaborate more ● effectively (can be done from anywhere) 6

Why should you implement G.A.F.E. into your classrooms? Turn your classroom into an ● environmentally efficient classroom: here are some of the things you can do with G.A.F.E. in your classroom - Store data online - Hand out assignments - Students hand in assignments - Mark Assignments - Hand Assignments Back - Store Grades online - And so much more…(look on my blog) 7

Side Question: How much paper do you think is used in a “20 student classroom in one year?”

~25,000 Pieces of Paper Some Math: A Tree makes 16.67 Reams of Paper ● ● In a school full of 50 teachers thats: - 1,250,000 Sheets of Paper - 50,000 Pounds of Paper That's a lot of trees you can save from using a paperless - ~150 Trees/school/year classroom 9

According to Stats “ Therefore: Canada, there are ~ 265,000 ● approximately 15,500 Classrooms Schools in Canada. ~6,625,000,000 ● Pieces of Paper This means that there is about 5.3 Million students in Public Schools” 10

Side Question: In Canada, how many trees do you think are used solely for Public School Paper?”

~794,841 Trees/Year in Canada 15-20 square kilometers of trees That's only for About the size of educational Victoria worth of purposes... trees...and that's just paper in school 12

Now Back to... Google Apps for Education

The Most ‘Benefi ficial’ Apps that you can use in your classroom : (in my opinion) Google Calendar ● Google Documents ● Google Slides ● Google Classroom ● Google Forms ● 14

Google Documents & Google Slides - Easily accessed from Teachers can see ● anywhere the group participants and see Once an ● assignment is how much they - Enhances Collaboration handed in, the have contributed between Students (more student cannot change any of group projects) - You can hand these the content in directly to Google - Teachers can access the Classroom document to check student progress + comment 15

Google Classroom It is a platform Allows teachers You can put ● ● ● where teachers to be more everything create their own effective - online - allows virtual everything is in students to classroom to one spot (no check here for share important need to carry missed information, around a 20lb assignments create a box full of dropbox for papers and Keeps you ● assignments, assignments organized as a and hand back teacher assignments 16

Google Classroom Parents can ● Paperless ● also join the environment Google *hint* *hint* Classroom - *nudge* which is great *nudge* for classes It is user where ● students are friendly too young 17

Google Calendar Google Works very well You can link ● ● ● Calendar is to organize your assignments incorporated classroom but and drop boxes with G.A.F.E. but also your to the due date works especially personal life on your calendar well with Google Classroom - Just make sure Schedule ● these are on meetings with Easy to attach separate parents easily ● to your Google - calendars Classroom (in fact, it's already 18 done)

Google Apps For Education Privacy G.A.F.E. privacy is Alias names not ● “When things are almost nonexistent available free, you’re the for students product” (or...anyone) They don’t ● delete Content is stored in information the USA and can be (Coquitlam accessed or sold backed out of G.A.F.E.) Basically, Districts are handing over Need Consent ● every student's Forms information to the 19 "yikes" by beckytekkie is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 States

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Why should you implement G.A.F.E. into your classrooms? “ Society is progressing with technology, so why shouldn’t your classroom?” - Joshua H. Well...you should implement some aspect of ● technology like G.A.F.E. into your classroom But there are more private ways to do it ● Alternatives include: Wordpress, Microsoft ● 365 (they delete information), etc. 21

Thanks! For more information, look at my blog: www.joshhotchin.opened.ca 22