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Google Drive for Educators Workshop Gideon Group Terry Gallivan, Lou Ellenburg, Ron Ramsdell, Thomas Walls, Chris Lyons, and Sena Parks Liberty University EDUC 633 Dr. Jennifer Courduff Spring 2013

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Google Drive for Educators To promote lifelong learning, the Gideon project will present a workshop for professional educators that introduces the recent and effective technological tool, Google Drive, for curriculum integration. Google Drive is a cloud-based collaborative tool, which can provide a partnership with peers as well as anytime storage (Google.com). The opportunity to further communication between administrators, staff, teachers, and students will be introduced. The Gideon project seeks to assist instructors today for the classroom of today and tomorrow. By investing a day in the Gideon project workshop, educators will gain more time through the effective use of Google Docs. Needs Identification Communication is the key to a successful educational environment. The challenge is incorporating useful and user-friendly technology. Google Drive is similar in fashion to Dropbox in that it is capable of storing a large amount of data for individual users, which can be shared between multiple users (Google.com). Teachers often struggle with obtaining homework from students for various reasons. Students who are homebound, but still involved in after-school activities must still be able to turn in assignments to their teachers. Teachers must be able to accept assignments from all students, whether from students in class or those that attend from home. Teachers are often seen with stacks of papers to take home to grade and bring back to eagerly waiting students. Google Drive is an excellent cloud-based data storage program, which is capable of eliminating many of these challenges (Adams, 2008). Any resource that will streamline the workload of teachers deserves the attention of the educational audience. In theory, if teachers can have some of the logistical administrative load lifted they will have more time to teach.

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Accreditation requirements for homework completion can also be more easily tracked using Google Drive. Google Drive allows instructors to store homework submitted by each student in class. Some higher education institutions must provide documentation on homework assignments. Because of these minimum homework requirements, the paperwork to provide requirement proof can take up quite a bit of space and requires extra time on the part of the instructor and administrators. The administrative task of keeping all homework in Google Drive will allow for the ease of searching and production of documentation when required for accreditation audits (Adams, 2008). The Gideon Team project will focus on assisting professional educators in simplifying their workload by presenting a workshop on how to use the open source program of Google Drive and Google Docs. Google Docs is an open source-writing program by Google (Google.com). In the current economy, school budgets are stretched to the limits, and the money required for teaching software is very limited. However, technology implementation is becoming more prevalent every day. This creates quite a significant dilemma for school systems and educators. The ability to offer high quality real-world technological skills on a limited budget is difficult. Google Drive is an open source program with powerful features that provides an educational program suite, realtime communication, large storage capabilities (5 gigabytes free, and fee services for larger storage needs), and cloud-based storage so hardware failure is no longer a concern (Dekeyser & Watson, 2006). The use of Google Drive can reduces the cost of annual software needs. Open source programs allow schools to use the latest document creators, presenters, database creators, and storage programs through the web and no longer need to rely on costly per-machine proprietary software. Another advantage of Google Drive is that it operates on any platform. The end user has a choice of using a PC, Mac, or mobile platform device. Each end user can create

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documents to share, edit or manipulate, and saved universally which eliminates the operating system challenges associated with most proprietary software with the same function. Google Drive is a cost effective program and offers phenomenal collaborative opportunities for teaching professionals. The major problem with Google Drive is that there is currently little formal instruction for professional development with using this program. The Gideon team will structure the presentation of our program as a professional development workshop for educators in the field. Goal Statement The goal of the Gideon project is to equip professional educators, who may be restricted by budgetary constraints, by incorporating technological competence in using the open source program of Google Docs within Google Drive. Presenting best practices and efficient use of technology to help educators meet accreditation guidelines, school policies, and technological efficiency required in todays budget conscientious school environments are the goals of the workshop. The workshop attendees will become familiar with the various educational benefits provided by Google Drive. Educators will be introduced to ways in which they can incorporate the use of Google Docs with their students for group collaboration, homework, homebound students, and for students who are recovering credits along with other uses. Attendees will learn how to create, edit, organize, collaborate and share documents within the Google Drive program. Additionally, attendees will be able to save documents and manage them within Google Drive by creating folders in which to organize those documents. To further this educational experience, Google + will be introduced as a means of communicating and sharing in a more real life-like situation (Curtiss, 2013). Educators will be able to use this tool when working on collaborative projects.

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Task Analysis Many teachers are unaware of the educational benefits that Google drive can offer. This resource provided by Google Drive presents opportunities for collaboration between teachers, administrators, staff, parents and students (Google.com). The first objective in the workshop will be to inform the educators on the benefits of using Google Drive. Educators will be provided with hard copy files that contain a typical weeks worth of homework from a pre-chosen class, all sections taught by that educator will be included in the hard copy file. The educators will then be asked to locate a particular assignment from the folders. This task will be timed to demonstrate the amount of time it takes, including the quickest and slowest times to locate the assignment. This information will be used later in the workshop to show the efficiency of locating documents in Google Drive compared to physical papers. The second objective will be to instruct the administrators, teachers, and staff on how to navigate through Google Drive. Workshop attendees will meet in one of two computer labs in a session conducted in the morning or afternoon, each computer lab will consist of thirty computers. A Google account and Internet access will be required; in addition, a familiarity of internet usage according to District policy will be a prerequisite for attendance. The members in the workshop will be required to create a Gmail account prior to attending the workshop. The attendees will be instructed how to navigate, create, and upload documents using Google Drive. The visual, kinetic, and audio instructions will facilitate the learning process for future recall on using Google Drive. The third objective is to incorporate Google Drive into the curriculum. As noted by the Gideon group, students who are homebound or attending an alternative school setting are in need of presenting their assignments to the teacher in a more effective manner. Students will be able

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to scan and upload documents to Google Drive. The teacher may then grade the assignment as well as correspond with the student as necessary. The teacher can upload lecture notes and assignments for the student using Google Drive. The median is a two-way instructional means for both the teacher and the student. The teacher may additionally choose to have the entire class upload projects and assignments to Google Drive. Teachers will have a means of tracking grades, assignments, and behavior.
Objective Inform educators on benefits of using Google Drive Instruct educators on how to navigate through Google Drive Instruct educators on how to incorporate Google Drive into their curriculum Learning Outcome Educators will learn the many benefits and advantages to using Google Drive Educators will feel comfortable navigating within Google Drive Educators will see various opportunities to incorporate Google Drive into their curriculum Goal Educators will use Google Drive in their classroom and for administrative purposes Educators will be capable to easily navigate Google Drive and feel comfortable Educators will effectively use Google Drive within their curriculum to enhance student learning and communication

The end goal of these objectives is to allow teachers to have an added curriculum resource. Teachers can now collaborate with peers by developing and sharing lessons. The teachers can create folders with various content and share the information with colleagues. While the attendees are on the Google Drive site they will be asked to locate the assignment from the exercise in task one. This task will be timed again and the times will be documented and compared to the time to find the hard copy assignment. Teachers will be offered the opportunity to discuss the results.

The following is a sample flowchart on the initial start-up of using Google Drive.

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Gmail Account
https://accounts.google.com/ Click "sign up" button

Create an Account
Fill in the require information Your done!

Google Drive
Setting Up Google Drive https://drive.google.com

Choose PC or Mac Option

Downloads your personal documents This is optional!

Using Google Drive from a Web Browser

You can create folders to organize You can upload your files

More, More, & More Stuff

On the Navigation bar you can locate files shared with you See your "starred" files

Uploaded Files
Already uploaded to Google servers can be viewed in the center of the screen. Many details can be found - owner, last modification, been shared with others, etc.

Explore and learn as you go

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Context and Learner Analysis The target audience for the Google Drive professional development is that assortment of adults who hold leadership roles in their communities. This would include business men and women, educators, and anyone who has a need to work via the Internet to accomplish their goals. While these leaders in their fields may have some misplaced apprehensions concerning Google Drive, they will also have a desire to become more technologically competent with cloud computing, collaborating with peers in an online environment, and in general, making paperwork easier to deal with (Blau & Caspi, 2009). The audience will be prepared to overcome their misgivings, eager to learn and apply new technology to their own situation, and they will have a desire to share this knowledge with others. Going into this workshop, these professionals will expect to gain new technology skills that will further their careers and advance their use of technology. In addition, they will expect to gain the tools necessary to share this information with their peers or students. The integration of this technology into the classroom by educators will help lead students into the 21st century with a new tool to enhance their learning (Brodahl & Hansen, 2011). The forum setting is simplistic in nature. Presenters will utilize the two computer labs during two sessions (morning and afternoon) in Google Drive instruction. Each computer lab houses thirty computers. Each session will be no longer than two hours. The presenters will guide the attendees as they navigate through Google Drive. Attendees will be allowed to upload documents, edit, and download during the workshop to obtain a level of confidence that will enable future use of this powerful tool. After the session is complete, presenters will be able to meet with teachers individually to ensure they are gaining confidence in the implementation of Google Drive. Teachers will then be able to instruct their students in the

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same manner as the workshop to meet the third objective of having students utilize Google Drive for obtaining lessons, notes, completing and uploading assignments. Presenters will be able to assist teachers who do not yet have the confidence level to instruct the students in using Google Drive. For students who are homebound, a presenter will be allowed to instruct the student and parents on the use of Google Drive. If the homebound student requires a laptop loaner, they will be instructed to speak with the appropriate administrator or student advocate. Students who are in an alternative school environment will have instructors available to guide them with Google Drive. Objectives Objective 1: Participants will become informed of the advantages available to them and their learning institution by using Google Drive to keep up with various documents, music, images, or videos used in their everyday school related routines. Advantages include, but are not limited to: cost effectiveness, ease of access to and storage of documents, timely collaboration with others, and communication among students, parents, peers and administration (Dekeyser & Watson, 2006). Objective 2: Participants will be able to navigate through Google Drive (GD), becoming adept at working in the Activities section where they will be able to: upload documents they have already created in Microsoft Word; create new documents, presentations, spreadsheets, surveys, and flow charts; and convert files to various formats for current or future use. In addition, participants will also learn how to share documents with other GD users as well as peers who may not have access to GD. Finally, participants will be able to edit documents and other files shared in GD and they will be able to add comments to these files as they make changes to them.

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Members of the class will be able to include their students in the use of Google Drive by having their students upload work to the Drive in order for the teacher to make comments on it. Members will work as a group collaborating on a specific document in real time to demonstrate their competency on this aspect of GD. Participants will learn how to organize their various files in GD by creating folders for specific topics, then dragging appropriate files and dropping those files into the folder. Objective 3: Incorporating Google Drive into the curriculum will be one of the key concepts learned from the presentation. The purpose of incorporating Google Drive into the curriculum is to allow teachers to more quickly and easily locate, grade, and share information with their peers as well as allowing timely feedback of graded papers to students. Teachers will receive a handout at the beginning of the workshop that will incorporate effective uses of Google Drive for the teaching of the lessons to learn during the workshop. As the attendees of the workshop work through the lessons, they will also work on developing a lesson incorporating Google Drive into a short learning lesson they will present at the end of the workshop. The resulting lesson will then be evaluated for proper learning by assessing their incorporation of the material learned into their short teaching presentation (Horton, 2012). Objective 4: Google Drive allows documents to be stored in the Cloud. The benefit of storing documentation this way is the ease in which they can be accessed at any time. The ability to collaborate on ones own timeframe can allow each member of the group to become more productive as they are able to work on the documents when it is most convenient for them. Collaboration with peers will be incorporated by sharing documents among members of the

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group, scheduling shared calendar due dates, on the fly updates and immediate feedback. Including notes, tips, and suggestions directly into the documents can also help others when reviewing documents. Including these tips directly in the document, rather than in a separate paper, can help to more quickly and easily set expectations and help others to keep on task (Midler, 2012). Instructional Strategy The following table is an overview of the instructional strategies to be implemented throughout the day. Pre-instructional Activities: This will include idea sharing between group members brainstorm. Orientation Activities and Practice Activities: This will include ensuring all accounts accessed and the attendees get the proper document for manipulation during the breakout sessions. The practice activities will include the scope and sequence lesson of using Google Docs and Google Drive. Assessment- During the lesson there will be multiple formal and informal checks to ensure the attendees are held accountable to the material, and learning the skills. Post Workshop Activities- Attendees will be expected to create a document in Google Docs and share it with their assigned group members. The learners will then be expected to keep a log of shared document over the next month and submit it back to us for review of the learning.

Activities that will take place during the workshop will include a number of motivational undertakings.

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Workshop Sent to participants via Google Docs during beginning 30 minutes of workshop Displayed via projection prior to workshop beginning and throughout day Addressed individually and in order. Check for setup of Google Doc accounts Objective check Groups will be assigned randomly Given periodically during instruction as group assignments Post Assessment to be given at conclusion to ensure learning and comprehension

Participants

Objective Introduction

Objectives will be referred to frequently throughout the workshop to ensure understanding

Orientation Activities

For introduction of participants and small group assignments

Assessment

Assessments will allow use of the acquired knowledge

Each member of the Gideon Instructional Team will be offering periods of forced movement throughout the day to encourage mingling and interacting with other professionals to exchange ideas and feedback. Forced movement will entail games, snack breaks, and question/answer sessions with other class members. Games will include interspersed quizzes with prizes of candy, novelty items, and other items to keep everyones attention and motivation level up. The entire workshop will take place with computers and Google accounts, allowing each student to set up Google Docs to their specifications and encourage further use of this educational technology. Ultimately, we would like to see teachers using this program in one documented lesson by the end of this school year.

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All objectives will be sent to the students Google Document account at the beginning of the workshop to ensure all participants are given access to them. Documents that will be used during the workshop will also be displayed via projection prior to the beginning of the workshop and as the workshop progresses. The objectives will be referred to frequently during the workshop and projection will allow quick reference when students are not looking at their Google Docs account. All objectives will be addressed individually in the order they are to be achieved with all definitions explained and questions answered. Doing this ensures better understanding by all individuals attending this in-service workshop (Jayroe, & Pretlow, 2010). Orientation activities will include ensuring all Google Drive accounts are set up correctly and can receive the objectives as a document. Once this has been established and all students have the document open, the instructors will begin informing all students of the days events. Following the introduction, class objectives will be covered as a group and a time of questions and answers will be offered. This question and answer time will help to give all participants an opportunity to ensuring proper understanding before beginning instruction. Students will be separated into groups of three in order to have 10 total groups in each session. The use of small groups will help to encourage the students to interact more effectively between attendees and presenters; this will also allow a more open conversation when doing group activities (Midler, 2012). Assessments will be given by instructors throughout the workshop to assess understanding and comprehension. Pretests will not be needed. All participants have joined the workshop to explore the usefulness of Google Docs and Google Drive within their classrooms. Practice assessments will be assigned as the workshop progresses, all students will be given opportunities to put each step into practice by creating, saving, retrieving, sharing and printing documents

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from Google Docs. Posttest assessment will take place at the end of the day and include a final document for each student to create, save, retrieve, and share with classmates prior to the end of the workshop. This will ensure that all students feel comfortable with the new technology skills they have acquired. This document will consist of information gathered from small group members in an effort to continue communication within small groups after the workshop ends. As a component of the professional development workshop on using Google Drive, the participants will need to create a basic Microsoft Word 2010 document to use during the practice portion of the workshop. This document will be a short writing sample for testing the save and share functions of Google Drive. If participants have a short paragraph prepared in advance of the workshop this will greatly assist the pace of this lesson, as well as give the participant more time to experiment with the program during the lesson. After the participants have been directed through the workshop lesson, and have had some time to experiment with saving a document using Google Drive, continued development of the students lesson will need to be developed by continued practice outside of the workshop. Learners new to the program of Google Drive will have the opportunity to test out this program away from the initial learning environment, and hone their new technology skills. Beginners to this computing skill will be paired with more skilled technology learners in their practice groups for help and support. They will be able to test both the cloud save function for any document format, and the share and edit functions that are used with Google Docs. The previously created small groups will work on creating, sending, and sharing their documents to one another. The small group will be encouraged to share their contact information so that they can practice using Google Drive and Docs after the workshop. This interaction will encourage the workshop attendees to continue using the program (Midler, 2012).

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Growth in attendee use of Google Drive in the classroom is the goal of this workshop, in order to do this; attendees will be encouraged to create a note page. This is a sample Google Doc to show how presented information can be shared to multiple people in a group.

The creation of the students note page will be an ongoing document created in Word 2010 and saved in their Google Drive. This document will be an ongoing tool that attendees will use throughout the workshop and for as long as they need it after the workshop is complete. The facilitators of the workshop will give specific help and feedback to the students in attendance. Continually providing a direct instruction method of teaching in the workshop will allow prompt responses if the students have questions or issues at any point in their lesson. As mentioned previously, facilitators will divide the whole group into sub-groups of three students for a total of 10 groups of three. Smaller groups will be able to more effectively practice the skills of saving documents and sharing documents with each other in Google Drive (Midler, 2012).

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Table of Instructional Strategies Pre-instructional Activities-This will include idea sharing between group members brainstorm Orientation Activities and Practice Activities- This will include ensuring all accounts accessed and the attendees get the proper document for manipulation during the breakout sessions. The practice activities will include the scope and sequence lesson of using Google Docs and Google Drive. Assessment- During the lesson there will be multiple formal and informal checks to ensure the attendees are held accountable to the material, and learning the skills. Post Workshop Activities- Attendees will be expected to create a document in Google Docs and share it with their assigned group members. The learners will then be expected to keep a log of shared document over the next month and submit it back to us for review of the learning.

Gideon Project Assessment Plan Entry Assessment Prior to beginning any instruction, an assessment will be given to assess learners' mastery of prerequisite skills. The questions in this diagnostic assessment will be based around Google Drive and Cloud computing. The purpose of this assessment will be to determine the level of understanding attendees have, so that instructors know where to begin instruction. The preassessment will be sent by email to attendees prior to the workshop. The intent will be to create groups according to skill level. Gideon presenters will encourage dialog between the members of the group as instruction proceeds.

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Pre-course Survey Example How familiar with Cloud computing are you? How do you communicate with parents / guardians of your students? How do you build / write your quizzes / exams for your courses? How do you communicate behavior issues with the other teachers for your students? How often do you collaborate with other teachers in course design? What form (paper, email, face-to-face, etcetera) do you utilize to collaborate with other teachers? Do you have a partner school class in a different district, state, country? What is your budget for course design adjustment? How often do you need to change / adjust lessons for individual students?

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Goal Statement for the Gideon Project The goal of the Gideon project is to equip professional educators who may be restricted by budgetary constraints with the technological competence of using the Open Source program of Google Docs and Google Drive.

After participation in the Gideon project workshop, attendees will take a short survey that addresses the effectiveness of the workshop as well as assessing the blocks of instruction for effectiveness of the workshop information. As stated in the above goal statement, one of the major issues the Gideon Workshop desires to address is how Google Drive can cut down on the costs of instruction as well as the ability to reach distant / remote students while collaborating with colleagues. Google Drive is a cloud-based service and because of this, it reduces the necessity for a local copy of documents and simplifies the ability to collaborate with colleagues, students, parents, and administration regardless of their physical location.

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Assessments of Objectives: Objective #1 The workshop will inform the educators on the benefits of using Google Drive.

The survey will ask the attendees to list benefits that Google Drive can provide them personally in their classroom instruction. The requirement that attendees understand the benefits of Google Drive and what they expect from the technology may be the most important question to ensure successful results from the workshop. If a teacher does not see the benefit to them and how it can assist them in reaching the instructional goals of their students it will be another great idea that will not be utilized. Other survey questions will be related to the functionality of Google Drive, such as: what can Google Drive do for you? What is the main purpose for Google Drive? The survey will investigate the shortcomings of the instructional purposes within Google Drive itself. If the cons outweigh the pros, the technology will not be utilized to its fullest capability, if it is used at all. Instructional design is an ever-evolving process and to better reach the target audience, these surveys will be consistently incorporated into future workshops. As Google Drive advances and new technology is added, this information will also be utilized to ensure full benefits of the technology for attendees of future workshops. Objective 1 Assessment What is Google Drive? Answers Google Drive is an open source program with powerful features that provides an educational program suite, real-time communication, large storage capabilities (5 gigabytes free, and fee services for larger storage needs), and is a cloud-based storage. Create and collaborate. In Google Drive, you can create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly. Work together at the

What can Google Drive be used for?

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Can Google Drive work with your favorite applications (apps)? How can you share the information?

same time, on the same document, and see changes as they appear (Google Drive, 2013). You can create, open and share files from a variety of apps directly in Google Drive. You can share files or folders with anyone, and choose whether they can view, edit or comment on your information.

The remaining three instructed objectives will be assessed using a demonstration type of assessment. The attendees will be asked to display familiarity and mastery of common Google Drive skills and tasks. The mastery of these skills will enhance the teaching and learning process and help the attendees to complete each of the instructed skills. Objective #2 Instruct the administrators, teachers and staff on how to navigate through Google Drive.

The attendees will be asked to navigate to Google Drive via their Gmail account. Attendees will implement an identified best practice by using the Google Chrome web browser to enable complete functionality of Google Drive. Once the attendees open Chrome, they will be directed to connect to their own Google Drive site via the drive link at the top of the page. When the attendees are on their own site, they will be asked to identify the separate areas of their site. The learners will be asked to navigate to the Activity section of their Drive to begin. The activity section will be stressed as a good place to operate from while using Google Drive since all key components can be accessed from there. Learners will be asked to identify where to upload documents, what documents can be uploaded and manipulated, as well as how to convert different types of files to Google Drive compatible files.

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Objective 2 Assessment: Navigate to Google Drive > Google.com > Task bar at the top of the page > Sign in to their Google account > Identify the task pane on the left side of the screen > Identify and describe the tools in the task pane > Navigate to the Activity section and prepare to upload documents. A how to video can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ZvYRU1Y5Y.

Objective #3 How to incorporate Google Drive into the curriculum.

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The importance of incorporating Google Drive will become very evident as learners become familiar with its many uses. Instructors will demonstrate how lesson plans will be uploaded, shared, edited and saved for multiple classes, schools and districts. Instructors will demonstrate calendar creation, interactive quiz creation, and test creation which can all be completed, saved, and manipulated on Google Drive as collaboration takes place and as information changes. Once students have seen these demonstrations, they will be given the opportunity to practice uploading, making changes, saving documents, building quizzes, and collaborating on shared documents. Learners will then be asked to create a lesson plan for a class, a short quiz, and upload them to their Google Drive account. Uploaded documents will then be shared, the learners will be asked to share their documents with a learning partner. Collaboration on the shared documents will then be used, recipient of shared documents will then be asked to collaborate on those shared documents by making and tracking simple changes to those documents. All of these tasks will demonstrate the usefulness of Google Drive in the learners classrooms, schools, and districts. Completing these exercise will show how documents used in one class can then easily be accessible for the same class taught at various locations. This process can help to develop uniformity of instruction and materials. Objective 3 Assessment: What types of documents can be uploaded to Google Drive? Attendees will be asked to upload files All types of files; all MS Office file types, PDF, music (mp3 / mp4), videos, image files and many others. Students will upload 3 separate files: MS Word, PDF, and a video file. Students will create 3 separate Google Docs: a simple presentation document, a spreadsheet, and a form (can be used to create quizzes and exams) all within Google Drive. Students will share one uploaded document and one created document with another student to demonstrate the collaboration tool and the usefulness of Google Docs in education.

Attendees will share a document with a partner

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Objective #4 How to utilize Google Drive to collaborate and share with peers. Objective four will build upon the previous objectives. Collaborating and sharing information with peers has never been easier or more efficient. Through Google Drive, sharing and collaborating with peers is literally a mouse click away. The virtual ease of collaboration will be partially demonstrated in objective three and will be built upon in objective four. Learners will observe composing in Google Drive, composing on their desktop, and uploading and sharing all different types of files. In addition to word and data processing in Google Drive, uploading video files will also be demonstrated. Once the learners have been given the opportunity to observe and practice these skills, they will be asked to demonstrate mastery of the skills necessary for collaboration and sharing files on Google Drive. Students will upload and share a word processing document, a spreadsheet file, and a video file. Once they receive the notification that they have received shared files, they will download, manipulate, track changes, and upload or send notification to the original author via Google Drive, this will be the culminating event in the Gideon Project Workshop. A how to video can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ZvYRU1Y5Y and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ox-r7qAdvA.

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Objective 4 Assessment: This will be the culminating event in the workshop where students will be asked to link all learned skills together. Students will be moved from one desk or room where they have received instruction on all Google Drive skills to another where they will then be asked to: log into their Google Drive account and create a document and drawing to share with the entire class. All students will comment on the document and add to the drawing thus applying Google Drive in a real situation where educators can collaborate with other educators. The final demonstration of the day will be to utilize a desktop (PC), a laptop (Apple), a tablet, and a Smartphone (one Apple IOS and one Android) to access Google Drive regardless of the platform or the operating system. Question and Answer Period and Closing Comments At the completion of the training and assessment period, students will be given the opportunity for a Question and Answer period. The most important piece to the training is that each learner understands the benefit of Google Drive for improving the classroom experience. Enhancing the learning process through technology and making it applicable to each individual user is critical to implementation. Google Drive is a cost efficient tool that will empower teachers in the teaching process as well as enriching the learning process of the student. There

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will be a final survey inquiring as to the relevance of the topic, quality of instruction, likelihood of use and where the course can be improved for further use. Media Selection Course Planning Chart- Google Drive Instructor: Gideon Group Workshop: Using Google Drive Workshop Outcome Objectives Assessment of the Learning and Final Assessment Participants will become informed of the advantages available to them and their learning institution by using Google Drive. Participants will be able to navigate through Google Drive, becoming adept at working in the Activities section. Participants will examine how Google Drive allows documents to be stored in the Cloud for anytime access. Participants will have an opportunity to experiment with online file share.

Assessments will be given by instructors throughout the workshop as practice to reinforce the learning. For continued mastery of skills acquired participants will need to complete a collaborative document and make edit to be turned in one week after the workshop. This will serve as the final assessment. Skills needed by the attendees: Familiar with how to use Gmail account. Work on a basic Word 2010 doc. Districts policy on internet usage. Skills needed by the workshop instructor: How to use Google Drive and Google Docs efficiently. How to use MS Word efficiently. Learning Technical hardware/software skills in case of system issues during the Activities & presentation. Resources Hardware support needed for this workshop include: Needed A computer or internet accessible device A Google Gmail account Google Drive Internet connection LCD projector Microsoft Word 2010 Participants will be able to use Google Drive to receive, assess, and return student documents, etc. that are created and used in classes or during homebound/online instruction. Integration of Participants will be ready to begin using Google Drive instead of flash Workshop drives for student projects, documents, and testing purposes. Skills Into the Participants will be prepared to teach students how to use Google Drive to Curriculum store work and submit work to teachers. A cost effective way to offer students quick and reliable avenues to submit work to teachers, for teachers to communicate with one another as well as

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all office personnel. Participants will be capable of collaborative projects, etc. from any location at any time.

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