Thursday, August 23, 2012

Google Training

For those staff who are interested in the Google training, the following is advance message from the trainers:

My name is Nick Bakke and I will be working with Caleb Hundt on training your staff Monday. I would like to say we are very excited to come in and develop a working relationship with you and your staff. I attached a tentative schedule for you to pass out to your staff, but as you mentioned in a previous email it will change depending on the level of experience your staff has using Google Apps for Education. We included additional sessions about advanced and innovative ways to include technology as well. If we can't get to these then we can certainly pass on the majority of the resources to you for dispersal.

Current Staff (8:00 - 11:30)
8:00 - 8:10 - Introductions, Chrome, & Google experience form
8:10 - 8:50 - Gmail - Basic concepts, customizing Gmail, Google Chat, creating and editing folders, labels, contacts, groups etc.
8:50 - 8:55 - Break/work time
8:55 - 9:30 - Calender - Basic concepts, adding calenders, events, syncing, calender preferences, etc.
9:30 - 9:35 - Break/work time
9:35 - 10:15 - Drive - Basic concepts, creating and editing docs, presentations, forms, spreadsheets; sharing and privacy, developing folders, search options etc.
10:15 - 10:20 - Break/work time
10:20 - 11:20 - Sites - Basic concepts, creating, editing, embedding, researching gadgets, publishing, etc.
11:20 - 11:30 - Questions/Wrap-up/Tech additional - Google Advanced Search, Web 2.0, I-Pads, etc.
- Exit survey

New Staff (11:30 - 3:00)
11:30 - 11:40 - Introductions, Chrome, & Google experience form
11:40 - 12:20 - Gmail - Basic concepts, customizing Gmail, Google Chat, creating and editing folders, labels, contacts, groups etc.
12:20 - 12:25 - Break/work time
12:25 - 1:00 - Calender - Basic concepts, adding calenders, events, syncing, calender preferences, etc.
1:00 - 1:05 - Break/work time
1:05 - 1:45 - Drive - Basic concepts, creating and editing docs, presentations, forms, spreadsheets; sharing and privacy, developing folders, search options etc.
1:45 - 1:50 - Break/work time
1:50 - 2:50 - Sites - Basic concepts, creating, editing, embedding, researching gadgets, publishing, etc.
2:50 - Questions/Wrap-up/Tech additional - Google Advanced Search, Web 2.0, I-Pads, etc.
- Exit survey

Please take a look and provide any changes or alterations you would like to see or have. I wanted to list some of the features we will be addressing in each session. We can make each session as basic or advanced as the teachers want. The one difficulty is having such a mixture of expertise in a single room, therefore what we have found to be successful is starting off with the basic functions and then work into the more advanced settings and applications as the session progresses.

See you Monday!!!

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