Using Google Apps and Video to Enhance Instruction

Created by Harriet Watkins (The University of Texas at Arlington) on February 21, 2008

James Varn, Director of Faculty Development, Mississippi Valley State Univ., gave this presentation. Not quite sure there are still people out there who are not familiar with Google docs anymore. However, there are probably some people who may need to know what you can do with google documents. He suggests that chat within Gmail works really well. He gave an overview of Gmail and google docs. The advantage of google docs is that everyone can contribute, you can track the document revisions in real time. You can control who has access to the document. You can conduct peer reviews, work on group projects, review history of revisions, will convert to word or pdf formats, use it for brainstorming or project papers for comments. Google docs allows you to insert comments, compare revisions to determine work each student has contributed. Google docs also has spreadsheets and presentations. Google groups is nothing more than a discussion group. You can create a discussion topics, add people to the discussion, etc. Goggle talk is just a basic instant messaging app.

He says that Google blogger is easier to use than to create web pages (??? ... not sure about that statement, because there are so many free blogging sites already out there), use blogger to create discussion forums, use it like an e-portfolio (which we've already done at UTA - Art History 1301). He gave some statistics on the relationship between the net generation and media basically saying that this generation spends more time on video games than in reading books. Using these types of apps are good for this generation because these students are more visual. They like to multitask.

For using video in his course, he is using/has used video downloader, youtube downloader, orbit, google video search, unplug extension in Firefox to download video in his course. A GOM player plays most any video file... and it's free. He uses MS movie maker to create video clips.

He also discussed Zoho Applications which is seeking to compete with google. He covered wiki's, social bookmarking programs, e-portfolios, etc. He used all of these tools in teaching english. Very basic presentation for a beginner or someone very new to Web 2.0 tools.

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		Using Google Apps and Video to Enhance Instruction Created by Harriet Watkins (The University of Texas at Arlington) on February 21, 2008 James Varn, Director of Faculty Development, Mississippi Valley State Univ., gave this presentation. Not quite sure there are still people out there who are not familiar with Google docs anymore. However, there are probably some people who may need to know what you can do with google documents. He suggests that chat within Gmail works really well. He gave an overview of Gmail and google docs. The advantage of google docs is that everyone can contribute, you can track the document revisions in real time. You can control who has access to the document. You can conduct peer reviews, work on group projects, review history of revisions, will convert to word or pdf formats, use it for brainstorming or project papers for comments. Google docs allows you to insert comments, compare revisions to determine work each student has contributed. Google docs also has spreadsheets and presentations. Google groups is nothing more than a discussion group. You can create a discussion topics, add people to the discussion, etc. Goggle talk is just a basic instant messaging app. He says that Google blogger is easier to use than to create web pages (??? ... not sure about that statement, because there are so many free blogging sites already out there), use blogger to create discussion forums, use it like an e-portfolio (which we've already done at UTA - Art History 1301). He gave some statistics on the relationship between the net generation and media basically saying that this generation spends more time on video games than in reading books. Using these types of apps are good for this generation because these students are more visual. They like to multitask. For using video in his course, he is using/has used video downloader, youtube downloader, orbit, google video search, unplug extension in Firefox to download video in his course. A GOM player plays most any video file... and it's free. He uses MS movie maker to create video clips. He also discussed Zoho Applications which is seeking to compete with google. He covered wiki's, social bookmarking programs, e-portfolios, etc. He used all of these tools in teaching english. Very basic presentation for a beginner or someone very new to Web 2.0 tools. EDUCAUSE_SWRC08 \| Google Apps \| Tools \| Web 2.0 Harriet's blog Login or register to post comments 459 reads
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