Not Just A Search Engine:
Using Google For Your
Classroom
Athir Mahmud
Harold Washington College
Chicago, Illinois
Course Technology Conference 2011
Google Apps
• Docs
o Document
o Spreadsheet
o Presentation
o Form
o Drawing
• Gmail
• Calendar
• Groups
• Talk
• Sites
Document
• Online word-processing program
• Now allow video to play within document
• Good for group/collaborative projects
Presentation
• Basic presentation features
• Does not support *.pptx files for
conversion to Presentations
• Files that are *.ppt may be converted and
edited
• Currently no animations to slides
Spreadsheet
• Create online spreadsheets
• Share with permissions
• Recently included multiple tabs, as in
Excel
• Includes most basic spreadsheet needs
Form
• Create online forms with the click of a few
buttons
• Can be embedded within an email
• Data is conveniently stored into a Google
Spreadsheet
Drawing
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A simple drawing program
Diagrams
Organizational Charts
Flow Charts
Collaboration/sharing
Can be inserted into other Google Docs
Voice
• Enhances your current phone
• Provides one number that can ring
anywhere
• Voice messages are transcribed into an
email-like format
• Send and receive SMS (aka text)
messages
Google Wave (No Longer In
Development)
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Collaborative online environment
A little like email, a little like chat
Real-time
Send/receive richly formatted text, videos,
photos, maps
Cool Things Should Be Easy!
www.xkcd.com
Athir Mahmud
Harold Washington College
[email protected]
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@AthirMahmud
Google Voice: 312-985-6369
Office: 312-553-5968