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Google Apps for Classroom

ManagementTheory & Overview

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What We Will Discuss What’s the Big Deal? Why Does It Matter? How Are Writers and Teachers of Writing

Affected? Schmoozefest – aka Q&A

What We Won’t Discuss Logging In What button to click

Faciltiy with New Media is never about software Software changes - ideas stay the same

Besides, “hands-on” is this afternoon’s sessions

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Your Computer is NOT Just A

SO WHAT IS IT??

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Community Creation Time and geography are no longer barriers

to likeminded people finding each other.

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Collaborative Work Time and geography are no longer barriers

to collaboration. Teaching is collaborative work

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Models: Collaborative Writing I Consensus

The slowest model of collaboration Makes people happy Accomplishes no product – it’s at best an

agreement.

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Models: Collaborative Writing II Iterative Repetition

Traditional Teaching Incremental Improvement

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Models: Collaborative Writing III Teamwork

Defined roles Defined Processes Shared Purpose

Vygotsky – Peer Groups

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Modern Computing & New Media Has anyone bought Yahoo software? What does Yahoo sell that Microsoft

wanted to buy for $47 BILLIONBILLION dollars???

Fat & Skinny Client/Servers Where does computing intelligence “live?” Microsoft wins the battle for consumers Moore’s Law – 45 years and still true! Metcalfe’s Law

The value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system 

Disruptive Technologies

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Cloud Computing

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Why Does It Matter? Writers will still write, but…they will meet

their audience and create in new ways.

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What’s in the clouds? Wiki – (from Hawaiian for “easy”) - knowledge Blogs – from “web + logs” – commentary and news

Dooce Social Networking – community creation

Facebook MySpace LinkedIn

Video and Multimedia - sharing YouTube Adobe Photoshop Express and Flickr Slideshare

Google Apps Virtual Collaborative Space Like-minded people with a common task

and defined roles can meet for productive work

teaching and learning.

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Convergence Pictures Text Video Sound Slideshows Contacts Commentary Community

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New Lamps for Old!Old Media

Information transfer Credentialed access High cost of entry Slow interaction

Letter to the editor Letter to the writer

Dedicated Medium

New Media Information transfer Democratic access Virtually zero cost Immediate interaction

Email Blog comment

Multimedia

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The Genie is Out of the Lamp!!! Citizen journalists

Huffington Post

Literary blogs Bookslut EWN Identity Theory

Communities 2009 Book Expo

Wiki

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Wiki – The Wisdom of Crowds

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Open Questions Wither books?

Music, newspapers revenue sources, video entertainment are all moving to the Internet—why think books will do otherwise?

Wither privacy? What does “publishing” mean anymore? What is a Writer?

Welcome to Google Apps A virtual collaborative space Controlled access Flexible modalities Sample

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What Do We Think?