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<H1 dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=5>Google @ School: Step by Step Guide to </FONT><FONT size=5>Google Docs for Higher Ed Webinar</FONT></FONT></H1>
<H1 dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000>Date:</FONT> Thursday, August 6, 2009</FONT></H1>
<H1 dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=3>Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Central)</FONT></H1>
<P dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=3><STRONG>Location: AGIT 221</STRONG></FONT></P>
<H1 dir=ltr><FONT size=3>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? </FONT></H1>
<H1 dir=ltr><FONT size=3><FONT color=#0000ff>Register</FONT> at: <A href="http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/itde/admin/trainingList.asp">http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/itde/admin/trainingList.asp</A> to join us for this 60-minute webinar.</FONT></H1>
<P><STRONG>PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS</STRONG></P>
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<LI>Google Docs Boot Camp: What You Need to Know & Do First
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<LI>What is a Google Doc & why should you use it?
<LI>Steps to upload existing documents to Google- & create new docs
<LI>Google App pitfalls & how to avoid them
<LI>Using Google Doc Templates: research, syllabi, lesson plans, & thesis </LI></UL>
<LI>How to Use & Utilize Google Spreadsheets & Google Presentations
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<LI>Importing & Exporting formatted data from spreadsheets & Power Points
<LI>Collaborate with others who are simultaneously editing through Chat
<LI>Useful presentation & spreadsheet templates for college classrooms </LI></UL>
<LI>Google Doc Tools for EDU: Editing, Templates, Sharing, & More
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<LI>Sharing your Google Doc: Tips to upload, download, publish, & embed
<LI>How to use Google's FREE PDF converter
<LI>Using the WYSISYG editor tool to format, spell check, etc </LI></UL>
<LI>Live question and answer session</LI></UL>
<P><STRONG>SPEAKER</STRONG></P>
<P><B>Cindy Lane</B> 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. </P>
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<LI>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.
<LI>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.
<LI>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." </LI></UL></P></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana color=#0000ff size=2><EM><STRONG>Julie McElhany, Ed.D.</STRONG></EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Coordinator for Instructional Design</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Texas A&M University-Commerce</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>v-mail: 903.468.8164</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>mobile: 214.223.4107</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>