Google docs tvtcs2012

Irmeli Pietilä

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Why Google Docs?

You can Upload stuff that you have made with Office ProgramsYou can create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, pictures and formsYou can share your documents with other collaborators and edit them simultaneouslyYou can download your stuff and continue editing in Office programsWith Google Drive managing your documents is even easier than before

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Google Docs, settings


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Go to

http://docs.google.com

Don’t worry that the page is in Finnish, we will change it!

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Google Docs, create new

Document is like Word, Presentation is like PowerPoint, Spreadsheet is like Excel, with Form you can make polls and Pictures is for drawing. Table (beta) offers datasets and with Collections you can keep your stuff in order. A really handy thing is that you can check your spelling!


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You might want to watch tutorials at http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/A-Video-Tour-Of-Google-Docs

Google Docs, share

You can share your document for others to view or you can allow them to edit the document. It’s possible that several people write one document simultaneously.


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Google Docs, Upload


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You can upload documents from your computer. In traditional view it goes like this

Google Docs, Upload


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You can upload documents from your computer. With Google drive

Register Google +


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Go to

http://plus.google.com

Don’t get scared, when everything is in Finnish! You can change it to English once you are in!

Fill in the form as shown on the right.

Google +, in English

Once you have made it in, change tthe language to English and go over other settings.


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Google +, setup & use

Set up your profile, search people to your circles… Tutorials for Google+ can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocPeAdpe_A8&feature=relmfu

One feature I recommend warmly is Hangout with extras, which we used with Pekka. It allows up to 10 people have a videoconference, and share Google documents while doing it. It is also possible to share one’s screen. According to Google Extras are available for a limited time, but I hope they’ll remain, because they really offer lots of potential!


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Some exercises

1. Log into your Gmail account and send a message to [email protected] (=Irmeli) and to [email protected]

2. Share you Gmail address with the person next to you, and work as a pair in the next exercises

3. Go to http://docs.google.com and change it into English (see instructions on page 3)

4. Create a new document and share it with your neighbor. Write together about last weekend. Try editing options, adding links and pictures. Tutorial for creating new documents, http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/A-Video-Tour-Of-Google-Docs. Tutorial for sharing documents, http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Sharing-And-Emailing-In-Google-Docs


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Some exercises

5. Create a new presentation and make a four-slide presentation of your school. Add your school logo. Try different templates. Tutorial for presentations, http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Creating-A-Presentation-In-Google-Docs

6. Upload a document from your computer (if there aren’t any, make first a document in Word and save it to the Desktop). Tutorial for uploads, http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Uploading-Files-To-Google-Docs


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Some exercises

6. Design a poll for gathering feedback from this class (use “create new form”) and ask your friends to answer it. Tutorial for forms, http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Using-Forms-In-Google-Docs

7. Share the Teaching Practice –document with your team members and start collaborating on the plan!

8. Go to your account in Google+. Make a circle called Teacher Training and add as many fellow students as you can find. You can also add teachers (but they might mainly post in Finnish!)

9. Try Google+ Hangout (preferably on a laptop in your room, it would be quite noisy in the classroom, if you all started a Hangout!).


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