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Introduction to Google Apps
September 27, October 16 & November 3, 7, 14, 2008
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Introduction to Google Apps
This event has been approved for 3 hours of FPG.
Facilitator
Shelley Rodrigo, is a faculty member at Mesa Community College who is working as the campus instructional technologist for the 2007-8 academic year. She has taught writing, film, and literature classes for 11 years as a graduate student, adjunct, and residential faculty. She has presented at institutional, local and national, disciplinary and interdisciplinary workshops about technology and writing, to include: “Keeping up with the Jetsons,” “How to examine the Virtual: Assessing and Evaluating Online Teaching and Learning,” “Designs of Distance Education: Assessing Approaches to Web-Based Writing Courses,” and “Experimental Classroom Orientation.”
The Maricopa Community College District is planning to implement a “maricopa.edu” instance of Google Applications, specifically Gmail for students. The primary rationale for this workshop is to inform faculty members and staff, of how Google Applications work so they might evaluate them for their own teaching and work processes.
This workshop will give faculty members the opportunity to experiment with the various Google Applications while also dialoguing with one another about how they might incorporate them into their classes.
Workshop participants will have the opportunity to engage in “hands-on” activities with the various applications to better understand them.
The goals of the event are to make faculty comfortable with, and knowledgeable about, a variety of Google Applications:
- Introducing faculty and staff to the Google Applications associated with a college’s instance of Google Apps.
- Engaging in discussion about how and why these various technologies can better facilitate teaching and learning.
- Offering the knowledge and experience of faculty who have designed, developed and incorporated different types of Google Applications into their classes, or work processes.
- Encouraging individual faculty, or staff, from all disciplines to critically select, review, and possibly adopt Google Applications to incorporate into their classes, or work processes.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
9:00am - Noon
Rio Salado College - Room 515
Thursday, October 16, 2008
9:00am - Noon
Gateway Community College - Room MA2124
Friday, November 7, 2008
9:00am - Noon
Chandler-Gilbert Community College - Room B171
Google ePort Workshop
This event has been submitted for 3 hours of FPG.
The goals of the event are to make faculty comfortable with, and knowledgeable about, a variety of Google Applications and how they might be used to construct online electronic portfolios:
- List the various functionalities of the district’s old electronic portfolio system and map which Google applications replicate which functions.
- Engaging in discussion about how and why these various technologies can better facilitate reflective learning and personal (professional) growth.
- Offering the knowledge and experience of faculty who have designed, developed and incorporated different types of Google Applications into their classes, or work processes.
- Encouraging individual faculty, or staff, from all disciplines to critically select, review, and possibly adopt Google Applications to incorporate into their classes as electronic portfolios and/or for their own professional portfolios (especially Faculty Evaluation Plans).
Thursday, November 6, 2008
3:00pm - 6:00pm
Phoenix College - Encanto Room
About: Google Apps as an ePortfolio Tool. More information to come.
Teaching & Learning with Even More Google Applications
This event has been submitted for 3 hours of FPG.
Friday, November 14, 2008
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Scottsdale Community College - Room BU141N
About: Teaching & Learning with Even More Google Applications will offer information and engage participants in dialogue and hands-on activities intended to introduce and familiarize workshop participants with Google Calendar, Google Docs, iGoogle, Google Groups, Blogger, and Google Page Creator.
The goals of the event are to make faculty comfortable with, and knowledgeable about, a variety of (advanced) Google Applications:
- Introducing faculty and staff to the Google Applications both those associated with a college’s instance of Google Apps as well as those only available offered through Google.
- Engaging in discussion about how and why these various technologies can better facilitate teaching and learning.
- Offering the knowledge and experience of faculty who have designed, developed and incorporated different types of Google Applications into their classes, or work processes.
- Encouraging individual faculty, or staff, from all disciplines to critically select, review, and possibly adopt Google Applications to incorporate into their classes, or work processes.
For more information, contact Veronica Diaz, PhD at 480.731.8300.
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