100 métodos para usar Google Apps y conseguir ser mejor docente
- You can save money for other uses: Google's services are free or extremely cheap, which offers a financial savings over most other educational software.
- Students enjoy using Google: Many students are already familiar with Google products and are happy to use them.
- Apps can be used without support: Support is rarely needed for using Google apps.
- Google apps are easy to deploy: Google Apps work easily with what you already have.
- Google offers centralized storage: Instead of keeping information on a single computer or network, you can keep it available through Google systems.
- Inspire students with posters: Improve search results with tips and inspiration in these posters from Google.
- Google offers lesson plans: Use these classroom-ready lesson plans that make use of Google apps.
- Your privacy is protected: Google secures data and offers privacy settings for apps.
- Create bulk accounts: Google will allow you to create student accounts with a .csv export.
- You can access any time: Google offers 24/7 access, instead of having to wait until you are at school.
- Google offers support: You can find help for Google apps with the help center, groups, and more.
- Google has good filters: You can benefit from Google's excellent security, spam and virus filters.
- You'll find compatibility: Google apps import and export traditional file formats.
- Google offers freedom: With Google, you can get freedom from desktop applications.
- You can take Google mobile: Google is accessible using any web-enabled mobile device.
- You can collaborate easily: Google makes it easy to collaborate on documents and information.
- Buzz makes collaboration simple: Buzz allows you to carry on conversations in a variety of subjects, as well as share files and information.
- Securely share videos: Google Video allows you to securely share videos that can be commented on, tagged, and rated.
- Manage projects: Science fair and group research projects can be worked on together using Google sites.
- Discuss documents in chat: Google Docs has an onscreen chat window that allows you to discuss additions and changes in real time.
- Create your own moderated forums: Google Groups will allow you to create moderated forums and mailing lists for discussion and more.
- Share resources on Google Notebook: You can collaborate with colleagues, sharing resources in your subject area.
- Collaborative note taking: Google Wave can be used to put together notes among your students.
- Electronic documents are easy to access and edit: With Google Docs, you and your students can create documents and spreadsheets that can be accessed and edited by others.
- Update with Blogger: Use Blogger to create your own blog where you can share assignments, information, and tips for tests.
- You can learn and share using Google Knol: Share, publish, and collaborate on knowledge documents.
- Share media: Use Google Buzz and other tools to share media like text, links, and photos.
- Plan parent conferences: Schedule parent conferences with teachers and multiple schedules.
- Share lesson plans: You can share lesson plans with substitutes, administrators, and other teachers using Google Wave.
- Set privacy levels: Restrict who can edit or view documents with privacy levels.
- CloudCourse for scheduling: Schedule your courses using this app for Google Calendar.
- Education groups: You'll be able to create education groups using Google Buzz.
- Share feeds: Add and share feeds from social sites with Google Buzz.
- Embed documents: You can embed documents into emails and more.
- You can create private blogs: Your students can create their own classroom blogs and set them to private.
- Content can be shared easily: Using various applications from Google, you can share information online.
- Stay on top of current events: Your students can use Google News to find the top news stories.
- Get alerts: Set up alerts for Google News to find updates on what you're studying in the classroom.
- Get around blocked websites: Use Google's cache to find blocked websites.
- Search classroom keywords: With certain keywords, you can find great classroom keywords.
- Set up a custom search engine: Help point your students in the right direction using Google's custom search.
- Search videos: You can find Google educational videos easily.
- Find a timeline search: Type view:timeline and your search to find a timeline of the topic.
- Get definitions: Type definition:word to find the definition of a desired word.
- Spellchecking: Type a word into Google's search, and you'll find the corrected spelling.
- Communicate within your department: Use Google Wave to discuss communications in your department.
- You can use free voice tools: Google Talk has free IM, VoIP, voicemail, file transfers, and more.
- Use Google Voice as a personal secretary: Google Voice can transcribe your messages and listen as messages are being left.
- Share links: You can share links to web resources with Google Wave.
- Publish the school calendar: Share the school's calendar to your website so everyone's informed.
- Administer class discussions: Materials can be uploaded and discussed easily with the help of Google Buzz.
- School admin sites: With a Google site, you can help teachers and administrators stay on top of events, policies, and progress.
- Help students in Groups: Make students more effective at learning and helping each other by creating a Google Group for your classroom or school.
- Share private conversations: Set Google Buzz conversations to private to share only within your classroom.
- Send quick updates: Use Google Buzz to send out assignment and course updates to let your class know right away.
- Create a class site: Use your class site to keep track of events, assignments, deadlines, projects, photos, and more.
- Make class groups: Keep your communication organized by creating groups for different classes.
- Collaborate for group work: Google Groups offers online discussions that allow students to work together, even in different locations.
- Gmail has excellent storage: Gmail has 7GB of storage, and is great for sharing or storing large files.
- Keep parents in the loop: With a classroom site, you can let parents know what their children are learning about and doing in school.
- Gmail can be customized: Your school's branding can be customized on your Gmail and Google Calendar.
- You'll be able to stay connected: Gmail offers a built in IM, chat, and more.
- Record conversations: You can record conversations with experts for archiving.
- Share voice recordings: Leave messages for students through email, links, and more.
- Record tutorials: You can set up mini tutorials by leaving yourself a Google voicemail.
- Forward messages: You can share messages with administrators and more via email.
- Protect your phone number: You can be contacted using Google Voice widgets without having to post your number.
- Messages are easy to find: You'll be able to easily find the messages you're looking for in Gmail.
- Create teacher appraisals: You can create teacher appraisal sign-ups using Google Wave.
- Share schedules and events: Keep students, administrators, and parents in the loop with shared calendars.
- You can share calendars: With Google Calendar, you'll be able to schedule resources, rooms, and groups online and with your mobile device.
- Work on to-do lists: Set up to-do lists within Google Wave.
- Enable timestamps: Keep track of student work using timestamps.
- Revising student work is easy to follow: Google Docs helps you track changes, save revisions, and collaborate.
- Take notes: Google Notebook allows teachers, students, and even entire classrooms to record notes, links, and more, and go back to edit them later.
- Make use of templates: With the Google Docs template gallery, you can save time with pre-made documents.
- Encourage comments: You can encourage peer feedback with the use of comments.
- Publish documents for parents: Through Google Documents, you can publish documents for parents and others.
- Compare views: You can compare what streets and cities look like with Google Maps.
- Find pen pals: Use Google Maps to locate school pen pals.
- Study field trip areas: Before a field trip, your students can study the area using street, terrain, and satellite views.
- Compute the area of a region: Have students estimate the area of a region and figure things out with Google Planimeter.
- Create personalized maps: Google Maps makes it easy to create personalized maps with your route, adding fact balloons, photos, videos, and more.
- Create a place in time: Google Tools will allow you to explore images, geography, and more from a specific place and time.
- Make tours: Identify locations with comments, images, and more.
- Share a 3D model of the world: With Google Earth, students will have access to a 3D model that can be grabbed, spun or zoomed in on.
- Set up science projects: Science projects like global warming can be done using Google Earth.
- Create a Google Earth tour: You can create a quick Google tour of any location.
- Work on Google Earth models: Using Google Earth and SketchUp, you can create models of a location.
- Scavenger hunt: Use Google Earth to create a scavenger hunt for students.
- Travel the real earth: Use Google Earth to travel explorations, migrations, history, and more.
- Make placemarks: Include live pictures and more with placemarks.
- Share heritage: Students can use Google Earth and other tools to show where they and their families are from.
- You'll be able to search books: Books in the public domain can be fully searched.
- Create literature trips: You can use Google Earth to discover where literature took place.
- Browse books like a library: Find books for your class with Google's Book search tools.
- Create your own online library: Add books to your library with Google Book's "Add to my library" feature.
- Find scholarly works: Google Books results for books offer links to scholarly works on the literary piece.
- You'll be able to find a plethora of photos: Find photos easily on Google.
- Create 3D models: SketchUp allows students to create 3D models of buildings and environments.