Google Drive Workshop Lesson Plan

November 12, 2014

Standards:
PSC:
1. Visionary Leadership

Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to inspire and lead
the development and implementation of a shared vision for the effective use of
technology to promote excellence and support transformational change throughout
the organization.

2. Teaching, Learning, & Assessment

Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to effectively
integrate technology into their own teaching practice and to collaboratively plan with
and assist other educators in utilizing technology to improve teaching, learning, and
assessment.

3. Digital Learning Environments

Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to create, support,
and manage effective digital learning environments.

5. Professional Learning & Program Evaluation

Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to conduct needs
assessments, develop technology-based professional learning programs, and design
and implement regular and rigorous program evaluations to assess effectiveness and
impact on student learning.

6. Candidate Professional Growth & Development

Candidates demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to engage in
continuous learning, reflect on professional practice, and engage in appropriate field
experiences.
ITSE:

1. Design and develop digital age learning experiences

and assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning
experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools
and resources to maximize content learning in context and to
develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the
Standards
a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate
digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity
b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all
students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active

participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own

learning, and assessing their own progress
c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students
diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital
tools and resources
d. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative
assessments aligned with content and technology standards, and use
resulting data to inform learning and teaching
3. Model digital age work and learning
Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative
of an innovative professional in a global and digital society.
a. Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the
transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations
b. Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community
members using digital tools and resources to support student
success and innovation
c. Communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students,
parents, and peers using a variety of digital age media and formats
d. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital
tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to
support research and learning
4. Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility
Teachers understand local and global societal issues and
responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and
ethical behavior in their professional practices.
a. Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal,
and ethical use of digital information and technology, including
respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate
documentation of sources
b. Address the diverse needs of all learners by using learnercentered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate
digital tools and resources
c. Promote and model digital etiquette and responsible social
interactions related to the use of technology and information
d. Develop and model cultural understanding and global
awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other

cultures using digital age communication and collaboration tools

5. Engage in professional growth and leadership
Teachers continuously improve their professional practice, model
lifelong learning, and exhibit leadership in their school and professional
community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital
tools and resources.
a. Participate in local and global learning communities
to explore creative applications of technology to improve
student learning
c. Exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision
of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making
and community building, and developing the leadership and
technology skills of others
d. Evaluate and reflect on current research and professional
practice on a regular basis to
make effective use of existing and emerging digital tools and
resources in support of student learning
e. Contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self- renewal
of the teaching profession and of their school and community
Essential Questions:
How can you use Google Drive to collaborate with your
department and other teachers?
How can students use Google Drive to collaboratively
learn?
Materials:
Website: http://tcastle1.wix.com/technology-workshop
All Handouts are linked on the website via Google Drive
Participants were asked to bring their laptops and a Gmail
address already set up if they want to experience the Drive

Instructional Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
Make a Google Document and share with someone with an
email address and/or a link
Make a Google Presentation and share with someone with
an email address and/or a link
Make a Google Form, change the theme, and share with
someone with an email address and/or a link

 Upload a document into Google Drive to share with

someone with an email address and/or a link
Procedures:
Welcome, pull up website on SMART board ask participants
to log into Gmail account- participants were asked to bring their
laptops and have a Gmail account ready to go if they want to try
Google Drive for themselves.
Show video from website Google Docs in Plain English,
explain that the video was made in 2007, so it is a little outdated
the overall idea is the same (even if the names and steps are a
little different)
Show participants the documents on website Benefits of
Google drive Google Drive Instructions and point out the
screencasts, agenda and the lesson plan. There are no hard
copies of any of the documents; all are located on Google Drive.
We felt like this was the best support of the Drive that running off
copies would be counterproductive.
Open Google Drive, show participants how to access drive
on their computer and start a new document and share the
document. Make sure to show how to edit permissions. For
example, show the participants how to change can edit, can
view or to share with a link.
Show participants how to upload a PowerPoint document in
Google Drive and share it with their colleagues. The upload
feature is very important for collaboration because people can
share a document and then edit it, save it to their own computer
and make it more personalized. This feature can also be very
helpful when teachers are collaborating while making a test.
Teachers can go on with an editable link and add their test
questions to the document.
Google Presentation is great for in classroom collaboration
as well. Show the participants (if time permits) an example of a
Google Presentation that I started and then uploaded the link on
my website. My students then went onto the document and
added their part to the presentation. One important tip: Google
Drive does tend to jam up if many people are on there at once,
especially on computers with slow processors. To combat this, I
had two of my computers (my teacher laptop and my desktop

presentation station) ready for the students to hop on if they

need to.
Show participants how to make a Google Form, including
change the theme, share the form and collect the responses.
Google Form is an excellent way to gather data and responses.
When showing how to construct a Google Form, make sure to
show one of each question type so that the participants can see
the different types available. The themes are a nice touch and
can give the person that is making the form a venue to
personalize the form. As with Docs and presentation, show the
participants how to set permissions and share the form with a
link. Also, pull up the spreadsheet and show them how the
responses generate. The best way to do this is to have them
click on a sample form from my website and fill it out, while the
response spreadsheet is open on the SMART board.
Ticket out the door, have the participants share a Google
form with me before they leave.
Follow-Up Observations: The workshop went rather smoothly, though
there were a few questions that I wasnt prepared for (see more in my
reflections). Overall the experience went really well.