Alyssa Greenwood

EDMA 625

Using Google Apps for Education to Increase Student Collaboration and Engagement

Rationale:
This professional development serves to help teachers become familiar with Google Apps for Education and some of its offerings. In
this PD, teachers will focus on using Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Classroom through a student and teacher lens. In todays
society, it is so important that we give our students the tools that they need in order to be college and career ready. Many of the jobs
our students will take on in the future do not exist yet, but we should provide them with the skill set in order to achieve success. Some
of these skills include collaboration and communication with their peers.

My STEM Internet Thing:

http://screencast.com/t/W8i1Oc7X4UCR
Training Agenda:
A. Learning outcomes for teachers
ITSE Standards for Teachers:
1. Facilitate and inspire student
learning and creativity Teachers
use their knowledge of subject
matter, teaching and learning, and
technology to facilitate experiences
that advance student learning,
creativity, and innovation in both
face-to-face and virtual
environments.
a. Promote, support, and
model creative and
innovative thinking and
inventiveness
b. Engage students in
exploring real-world issues
and solving authentic
problems using digital tools
and resources
c. Promote student reflection
using collaborative tools to
reveal and clarify students
conceptual understanding
and thinking, planning, and
creative processes
d. Model collaborative
knowledge construction by
engaging in learning with
students, colleagues, and
others in face-to-face and
virtual environments
B. How these teacher outcomes will prepare you to help students to be C. How outcomes
college and career ready and activities meet
the needs of
diverse learners
Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic Teachers will learn
expressions and equations. to design tasks
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.EE.B.3 that support
Solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with positive multiple means of
and negative rational numbers in any form (whole numbers, fractions, representation,
and decimals), using tools strategically. Apply properties of operations to expression, and
calculate with numbers in any form; convert between forms as engagement using
appropriate; and assess the reasonableness of answers using mental the principles of
computation and estimation strategies. For example: If a woman making Universal Design
$25 an hour gets a 10% raise, she will make an additional 1/10 of her for Learning (UDL)
salary an hour, or $2.50, for a new salary of $27.50. If you want to place Teachers will
a towel bar 9 3/4 inches long in the center of a door that is 27 1/2 inches promote student to
wide, you will need to place the bar about 9 inches from each edge; this student
estimate can be used as a check on the exact computation. questioning and
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.EE.B.4 discussion as well
Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical as other ways of
problem, and construct simple equations and inequalities to solve student
problems by reasoning about the quantities. collaboration
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.EE.B.4.A through the use of
Solve word problems leading to equations of the Google Apps for
form px + q = r and p(x + q) = r, where p, q, and r are specific rational Education (GAFE)
numbers. Solve equations of these forms fluently. Compare an algebraic Teachers will
solution to an arithmetic solution, identifying the sequence of the promote
operations used in each approach. For example, the perimeter of a collaboration in
rectangle is 54 cm. Its length is 6 cm. What is its width? virtual
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.7.EE.B.4.B environments
Solve word problems leading to inequalities of the through the use of
form px + q > r or px + q < r, where p, q, and r are specific rational Google Apps for
numbers. Graph the solution set of the inequality and interpret it in the Education (GAFE)
context of the problem. For example: As a salesperson, you are paid $50
per week plus $3 per sale. This week you want your pay to be at least
$100. Write an inequality for the number of sales you need to make, and
describe the solutions.
Day 1: Google Drive
Time Activity
9:00-9:15 https://docs.google.com/a/nyit.edu/presentation/d/1FVuOMN2QLCjmDLWLwG1v_GTcEfNqGg3_FSDt6gTvsvs/edit?usp
=sharing
Do Now: Teachers will be assigned a number
Teachers will access the following link and answer the question in the row of their number
https://docs.google.com/a/nyit.edu/document/d/1gflO8wELhYPK1Cheo3oMydlMJ5o_1KLp3R9kDNXya94/edit?usp=shar
ing

9:15-10:00 Presentation on Google Drive explaining what Google Drive is, collaborative aspects of Google Drive, how Google docs
is similar to Microsoft Word, Google Slides is similar to Microsoft PowerPoint and how Google Sheets is similar to
Microsoft Excel.

10:00-10:15 Teachers will be provided with their usernames and passwords

Teachers will log into their school Google accounts

10:15-11:15 Teachers will pick one partner in their grade level math department team and collaborate on a lesson plan or activity
that fulfills one of the math standards listed above using Google Docs, Google Slides, or Google Sheets.

11:15-12:00 Teachers will share out their lesson plan/activity, others will provide feedback/comments

12:00-12:30 Exit Ticket

Glow & Grow on post-it notes
Glow- one take away from todays session that you will implement right away
Grow- one challenge you faced/something you need more support on
Day 2: Google Classroom
Time Activity
9:00-9:20 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xP460uxKdj6dYD9Z-K3yS6cFt5HzaECLuhE5c430oc0/edit?usp=sharing
Do Now: Log in with your school google account
Go to: classroom.google.com
Click the + button at the top right
Join the class with the code 086nn1t

9:20-10:45 Google Classroom Pre-Test

http://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/566f70a7668e5aa718c80538

10:45-11:15 Mini-Lesson Presentation: Go over different Google Classroom features based on the data from the Quizizz pre-test

11:15-11:30 Check for Understanding: Google Forms and Flubaroo add on

Teachers will take a short quiz on Google forms and will have their grades emailed to them via Flubaroo
Go over answers to questions
Short discussion on Google Forms and Flubaroo

11:30-12:00 Differentiated Work:

Teachers who scored 0-50% on the Google Form Check for Understanding
Watch the follow video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26iyyQMp_g
Check out the following link: https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6149237?hl=en
Look at this website and then post to the Google Classroom Stream what features you like the best and what you
think needs to be improved. What is one feature you think should be added?
Comment on at least 2 of your colleagues posts.

Teachers who scored 51%-100% on the Google Form Check for Understanding
Post to the Google Classroom Stream how you might use these features in one of your lessons.
Comment on at least 2 of your colleagues posts.

12:00-12:30 Teacher will set up their first class and post their first assignment
12:30-1:00 Exit Ticket
Glow & Grow: Answer the question posted to our Google Classroom page
Glow- What do you like about Google Apps and the other technology resources? How will you use them in your
classroom?
Grow- What are you still skeptical about?
PD Evaluation Form
Strategies to promote digital citizenship:
Model appropriate use in virtual environments (Google classroom) through PD
Discuss safe use when posting information online- dont post personal information etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47ltgfkkik - great resource (music video) by Common Sense and Flocabulary to show
students about Digital Citizenship and sharing information online

Resources:
In order for this PD to take place, the school must have a Google Apps for Education domain with teacher accounts set up, internet
access, laptops or devices for each teacher, and a projector with screen.

Materials:
Training Material Link
PD Session 1 Slideshow http://tinyurl.com/o76edkh

Day 1 Do Now http://tinyurl.com/nvv9f8g

PD Session 2 Slideshow http://tinyurl.com/ncej9pv

Our Quizziz Game http://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/566f70a7668e5aa718c80538

Google Classroom https://classroom.google.com

YouTube video about Google Classroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K26iyyQMp_g

Information on Google Classroom Features https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6149237?hl=en

How to get Flubaroo http://tinyurl.com/o2scxle

Literature:
https://thejournal.com/articles/2014/09/09/using-google-apps-for-education-to-implement-common-core.aspx
This article discusses the full-scale implementation of GAFE within a school district and how GAFE helps to implement the Common
Core State Standards. GAFE allows for collaboration between students as well as research, which are key components of the
Common Core State Standards. The article discusses excellent examples of how students and teachers were able to collaborate on
authentic work that had meaning to them. For example, the article discusses how students collaborated to make interactive math
journals that future math classes could use. Teachers were also able to use Google Drive to collaborate on lesson plans. They
collaborated on the lesson plan template and then created lesson plans for the math department to use. General education teachers
aligned their lessons to the Common Core, and special education teachers were able to differentiate the lessons and keep up to date
with what was going on in class.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en/us/edu/classroom/pdf/41205_Google_Clarkstown_OS_140502_ps.pdf
This is a case study about Clarkstown Central School District (CCSD) which is located in southern New York. The case study
discusses how this district piloted Google Classroom. The study describes how Google Classroom has increased student engagement
and collaboration, as well as held students more accountable for their learning.

Evaluation:
https://edpuzzle.com/media/5670d6800d881082348ddc89