CommonCraft's "Google Docs in Plain English"

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04.28.10 Google Docs

• 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)
• CommonCraft's "Google Docs in Plain English"
• A Stream of Samples
• 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.

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Workshop Presenter Vicki Kurtz

Vicki Kurtz has taught at Hoopa Valley High School since 1986. She completed RWP in 1987; although she says it was a major turning point in her career and "made her the teacher she is today," she did not become actively involved in the organization until 2004. Currently, Vicki is the Rural Sites Liaison and one of the Glamorous Ladies of Technology. In addition, she has been involved with the California Writing Project's Improving Students' Academic Writing (ISAW).

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Workshop Presenter Tracy Duckart

Tracy Duckart has been a grateful devotee of the Redwood Writing Project since her first Invitational Summer Institute in 1996, and she eagerly accepted the opportunity to serve as its Technology Programs Director in 2000. Tracy teaches undergraduate composition at Humboldt State University and serves as the English Department's Director of Composition. 






Please visit the following links for a sampling of Tracy's technology projects:

• The Cache: Tracy Duckart's Instructional Website at Humboldt State University
• The Redwood Writing Project Website
• Advancing Technology 2009
• Critical Writing Text Review Central: A Student Project
  
• CommonThreads in NYC: A National Conference Presentation Blog
• CompPort

Contact Tracy at tracy.duckart@humboldt.edu or 707.826.5958.

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