Case Western Learning with Google Apps

Learning with

GoogleApps @ CU

Boulder

Diane Sieber, Caroline Sinkinson & Mark Werner

11/1/2012

Overview

• Overview of pilot

• Use cases

• Experiences

• Issues & support

2012 Pilot

Google Apps for Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Teaching with Google Apps

• Sharing Artifacts o Drive, Gmail

• Course Management

o Sites, Calendar, Drive, Gmail, Groups, Plus

• Conversations at a Distance

o Plus, Groups, Chat, Gmail

• Team-based Learning o Sites, Groups, Plus, Calendar, Drive,

• Assessing Learning o Forms, Drive, Blogger

Pilot Case One

Objective: collaborative site creation for

community mock client.

• Document creation

• Student site

https://sites.google.com/a/colorado.edu/praxis-learning-space-design/home

Pilot Case Two

Objective: collaborative mechanism for

discussion.

Google+

Pilot Case Three

Objective: course material access,

feedback, discussion, dropbox.

• Course home site

• Student posts

• Found content sharing

• Course content sharing

• Posted lectures and notes

Pilot Case Four

Objective: online group

discussion, course home portal,

content sharing, collaborative

content creation, and expert

community engagement.

• Site home

• Discussion

• Media sharing

• Virtual meetings

• Doc creation

https://sites.google.com/a/colorado.edu/course/

Google + and Google

Groups

• familiar social

network interaction

• informal

• sifted posts

• automated visual

appeal

• mobile interface is

excellent

• in-the-moment

• hangouts/video

• familiar listserve

interaction

• formal

• chronological

• more work to make

visually appealing

• mobile interface is

clunky

• in-the-threaded

discussion

• no attached videocon

Thank you

Questions?