04.28.10 Google Docs
1.31.2010
- Welcome (maybe five minutes)
- About the Presenters: Vicki Kurtz and Tracy Duckart
- To the TM2010 Blog: Signing in, Opening Tabs, Reviewing Agenda
- Introductions: What Is Google Docs? (maybe fifteen minutes)
- Getting into Google (maybe 15 minutes)
- Create or Log into a Google Account
- Email Preferred Email Address to tracy.duckart@humboldt.edu
- Watch GooDoc Creation: opening, naming, saving, and sharing; permissions and contributors; formatting, inserting, linking
- Getting down with GooDocs (maybe 30 minutes)
- Create First Document
- Title First Document
- Introduce Yourself in First Document
- Provide your name, school, and reason for attending the GooDocs session
- Dream in writing about how you might use GooDocs in your professional and/or personal life
- Share this first document with workshop participants by copying and pasting their email addresses from the eMailbox
- Create Second Document
- Title Second Document
- Answer at Least One of the Following Questions (write until we make you stop, please)
- What is / has been the best part of your week so far?
- What are you looking forward to doing this weekend?
- What would you like to describe about your past collaborative-writing epxeriences?
- What would you like from future collaborative-writing experiences?
- Share this second document with workshop participants by copying and pasting their email addresses from the eMailbox
- Learn about Commenting Options and about Accessing Revision History
- Who else is currently editing a GooDoc?
- Which documents have been shared and with how many contributors?
- Who has modified the GooDoc--and when?
- How has the GooDoc been modified over time (revision history), and how does one retrieve a previous version?
- Organize GooDocs
- Create at least one folder
- Color code folders
- File the new document
- Getting into GooFunctions (maybe three minutes)
- Google Spreadsheets (Faux Excel)
- Google Presentations (Faux PowerPoint)
- Google Forms
- Importing, Exporting, and Posting to Blogs and Websites
- P L A Y T I M E (maybe 37 minutes)
- Announce Work Preference: Alone or in Collaboration
- Announce Primary Subject / Goal
- Begin document project(s)
- Begin spreadsheet project(s)
- Begin presentation project(s)
- Work with Tracy to learn GooForms
- Gather technology standards and/or GooDocs information, resources, examples, goodies (like technology standards); gather findings in a new GooDoc to share with group
- Commit to Play; Embrace Experimentation
- Invite contributors
- Contact / email contributors
- Set access levels
- Import to / export from documents (make a personal document on one computer / drive public and accessible by importing from Word, for instance, to GooDocs)
- Upload to other online platforms: blogs, websites
- Track access and activity from DocsHome
- Create organizational files; color code for ease of reference
- Jazz up documents with links and photos
- Volunteer to create an availability survey for May/June follow-up session
- Conclusion (maybe 15 minutes)
- Volunteer to Share a Doc, Spreadsheet, Presentation, or Form (invite Tracy at tracy.duckart@humboldt.edu or share with everyone; use projector to show and tell)
- Volunteer to Talk Group through Discoveries, Concerns, Plans, and/or Questions Arising from Play Time
- Learn about Optional May/June Follow-up Session; Complete Availability Survey
- Complete the Participant Feedback: Online Survey. Thank you.
