Google Education Apps

1. How could Google Apps help you to be more efficient as an educator?  GoogleApps seems like an excellent place to support collaboration between students, other teachers and parents.  The app for creating a website and including a calendar help to keep everyone connected to what is going on in the school and the class.  I also like the overlay feature that allows colleagues to share their calendars, this makes scheduling meetings with multiple people a breeze.  Since cooperative learning is a Marzano strategy it is a great tool!

2. How could Google Apps enhance collaboration between you, parents, and students?  Collaboration is one of the big bonuses of google apps.  Since cooperative learning is a Marzano strategy it is a great tool! Email would allow me to communicate and collaborate with parents and students by giving me an address designed for that sole purpose. That would allow me to get directly to important emails and not have to weed through junk emails.  Also, google docs will allow me to collaborate with students by giving me a way to guide students with their writing while it is in progress and grade it once completed.  Google sites allows me a way to communicate with students and their families all at once.  Having the calendar linked to the website allows students and their families to have access to schedules and school events at their convenience.  Google classroom allows teachers to organize and create assignments and to provide feedback, a Marzano strategy, efficiently.  

3. Did you learn something about Google or yourself that you didn't know before?  I learned so much about what Google offers to educators by exploring their apps suite of tools for educators.  I appreciate what google is offering educators through their apps like websites that are ad free and a plethora

1. How could Google Apps help you to be more efficient as an educator?  GoogleApps seems like an excellent place to support collaboration between students, other teachers and parents.  The app for creating a website and including a calendar help to keep everyone connected to what is going on in the school and the class.  I also like the overlay feature that allows colleagues to share their calendars, this makes scheduling meetings with multiple people a breeze.  Since cooperative learning is a Marzano strategy it is a great tool!

2. How could Google Apps enhance collaboration between you, parents, and students?  Collaboration is one of the big bonuses of google apps.  Since cooperative learning is a Marzano strategy it is a great tool! Email would allow me to communicate and collaborate with parents and students by giving me an address designed for that sole purpose. That would allow me to get directly to important emails and not have to weed through junk emails.  Also, google docs will allow me to collaborate with students by giving me a way to guide students with their writing while it is in progress and grade it once completed.  Google sites allows me a way to communicate with students and their families all at once.  Having the calendar linked to the website allows students and their families to have access to schedules and school events at their convenience.  Google classroom allows teachers to organize and create assignments and to provide feedback, a Marzano strategy, efficiently.  

3. Did you learn something about Google or yourself that you didn't know before?  I learned so much about what Google offers to educators by exploring their apps suite of tools for educators.  I appreciate what google is offering educators through their apps like websites that are ad free and a plethora of ways to communicate with parents, students and colleagues.  Ive learned that calendars can be overlaid and shared with few or many.  Ive learned that their is a safe place to chat on Google Talk. 

of ways to communicate with parents, students and colleagues.  Ive learned that calendars can be overlaid and shared with few or many.  Ive learned that their is a safe place to chat on Google Talk.