[VPAAEtal] ITDE Invitation: Google@School - Google Docs for Higher Education

[Academic Affairs]

Google @ School: Step by Step Guide to Google Docs for Higher Ed Webinar


Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009


Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Central)


Location: AGIT 221


Google Docs is one of the free Google applications available to higher
education today. Documents, spreadsheets, presentations, templates, &
PDF capabilities - how can faculty and students use these Google tools
to build a more collaborative teaching and learning environment? 


Register at: http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/itde/admin/trainingList.asp to
join us for this 60-minute webinar.


PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

*	Google Docs Boot Camp: What You Need to Know & Do First 

	*	What is a Google Doc & why should you use it? 
	*	Steps to upload existing documents to Google- & create
new docs 
	*	Google App pitfalls & how to avoid them 
	*	Using Google Doc Templates: research, syllabi, lesson
plans, & thesis 

*	How to Use & Utilize Google Spreadsheets & Google Presentations 

	*	Importing & Exporting formatted data from spreadsheets &
Power Points 
	*	Collaborate with others who are simultaneously editing
through Chat 
	*	Useful presentation & spreadsheet templates for college
classrooms 

*	Google Doc Tools for EDU: Editing, Templates, Sharing, & More 

	*	Sharing your Google Doc: Tips to upload, download,
publish, & embed 
	*	How to use Google's FREE PDF converter 
	*	Using the WYSISYG editor tool to format, spell check,
etc 

*	Live question and answer session

SPEAKER

Cindy Lane is an Educator, Instructional Technology Specialist and a
Network Sherpa. She is also an adjunct professor teaching online classes
for SBU, Mizzou and eLearning for MO educators. She assists teachers in
her roles as a Discovery Education certified trainer, Master Trainer for
Intel Teach to the Future, and an eMINTS Instructional Trainer. 

*	She has presented at state, national and international
conferences for the past seven years. Cindy is extremely innovative and
resourceful and specializes in finding unique and creative ways to use
traditional technology in the classroom. 
*	Cindy is Missouri's first Google Certified Teacher and has
facilitated a Google Teacher Academy in Chicago, IL. She is the founder
of the GCT/CUE Dinner Club Webinar Series, a monthly presentation that
is able to be viewed by the 300+ Google Certified Teachers around the
world. 
*	Her passion "is to lead teachers on their quest to understand
technology and to seamlessly integrate it into their daily lessons thus
making their lives and the lives of their students easier and more
fulfilling." 

 

 

Julie A. McElhany, Ed.D.

Coordinator for Instructional Design

Instructional Technology & Distance Education

Texas A&M University-Commerce

903.468.8164 (office)

214.223.4107 (mobile)

 

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