Ryan Collins

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  • Ohio Goes Google conference notes #ohiogoesgoogle

    On Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending my first Ohio Goes Google Conference presented by ITIP Ohio. The sessions I attended were very informative, I picked up quite a few different tips and ideas. (I’ll emphasize my thoughts like this.)

    Keynote speaker – Jennie Magiera @msmagiera

    Google Moderator

    The Google Tool that nobody uses was big. Jennie Magiera talked it up, and then Sean Beavers led a session at lunch on it. Google Moderator allows for classroom participation in which the participants can post ideas and vote on these ideas.

    Slides

    • Thomas Edison, Elton John, Peter Jennings all dropped out of HS
    • Competitively College Ready
    • 7 out of 8, 72 out of 100 universities have gone Google
    • Docs story builder
    • Google Forms now has images, dates
    • youtube.com/mathademics
    • blog.mrmeyer.com

    Top five skills

    1. Critical Thinking
    2. Complex Problem Solving
    3. Judgment and Decision Making
    4. Active Listening
    5. Computers and electronics

    Resources

    • http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=209e48&t=209e48.40&f=209e48.6adb7c&o=30

    From Jennie: “Here is a copy of my keynote: (PDF) https://sites.google.com/site/­magierapresentations/ohio-goog­le-keynote And more info at my Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/msmagiera”­

    Jennie was a very engaging keynote speaker!

    Becoming a GMail Ninja – John Sowash

    Slides

    • bit.ly/sowash-PD
    • GTD
    • Inbox Zero
    • Priority Inbox
    • Canned responses
    • To do lists

    Resources

    Google Apps in the Office and Beyond – Wes Weaver – principal

    Slides

    • It’s about teaching and learning
      • Share resources
      • Best practices
      • Conference notes
      • Staff meeting accountability
    • Use Sheets to keep track of office tasks
      • students
      • budgets
    • Guidance Dept
    • Use Google Form for student sign off of forms
    • Track major initiatives
    • Calendars
    • E-mail
    • Forms
      • Self-assessment
      • Feedback & input

    Questions

    • Don’t you feel like you’re on a device all the time?
    • Is your secretary available?

    Wes had several examples of where his secretary took the initiative and created Google Sheets documents to make her job easier. Pretty impressive.

    Resources

    Lunch

    Speaker from Google

    I missed his name. 🙁

    • How do we prepare students for a future we can’t see?
    • The web is changing how we learn

    Sean Beavers – Google Moderator

    Sean gave real world examples on how he had used Google Moderator in his classroom, along with a picture of him in shorts.

    Using Google Scripts to Automate Your Life – Jennifer Magiera

    • Doctopus
    • Goobric (Doctopus extension)
    • FormMule (Calendar merge)

    I had not used FormMule before, looks like it could be very handy. Especially for dealing with input into Google Forms.

    Resources

    A must have Google Chrome Extension!

    Changing Google from Bland to Beautiful – Eric Griffith

    • Use Google Drawings
    • Object based, objects can be linkable
    • Use the built in Web Clipboard to copy/paste multiple shapes
    • openclipart.org
    • softicons.com
    • Drag and drop between tabs in Chrome
    • Presentation will be available on YouTube through the Ohio Goes Google web page

    This was a very cool session. A lot of complaints I hear about Google Docs is that fact that it’s hard to lay things out in the document. By use Google Drawing objects, you can add pizzazz to those boring Google Docs documents.

  • Impressions of the Nexus 7 Tablet

    For those that know me, ordering a Google Nexus 7 Tablet when it was
    released isn’t much of a surprise. I did wait a day though. 🙂 The
    Nexus 7 Tablet joins the stable of portable devices at home, which
    include a couple of iPad 1s, and iPad 3, a couple of cheap Android
    tablets imported from China, an iPhone, and an HP Tablet running both
    WebOS and Android Ice Cream Sandwich. My first impressions will be
    mainly what I see are the pros and cons of the Nexus 7. I’m not much of
    a reviewer, you can find tons of other reviews around the web.

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  • Checking out Android

    As I prepare for my eTech 2011 presentation, An iPad, Kindle, and iPod
    Touch walked into a classroom…    , I decided that it would be
    beneficial to plan on questions about Android, Android Tablets, and how
    they may work in schools. The Consumer Electronics Show was held this
    past week, and during it a bevy of manufacturers announced tablets, with
    almost all of them running Android.

    Android is an open source operating system created at Google based on
    Linux. Google allows distributes this OS free of charge to be used by
    manufacturers and cellular providers on mobile devices. It competes
    against other mobile operating systems such as Apple’s iOS (used on the
    iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch), Microsoft Windows Phone 7, RIM Blackberry
    OS, and HP’s WebOS.

    I purchased a Motorola Droid off of eBay and received it this past week.
    I’ve been playing around with it for the last couple of days, so this
    isn’t so much as a review as it is my first impressions.

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