Google Apps/Docs

Google Docs is a free, on-line set of productivity tools (word processor, spreadsheet, slideshow, online forms),
which provides collaboration and publication options.
Objective: Teachers will be able to use Google Apps/Docs as an instructional tool in their classrooms.

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Marzano's Instructional Strategies and Google Apps/Docs

The following instructional strategies work well with Google Docs. Please see the handouts for specific examples.

  • Setting Objectives
  • Providing Feedback
  • Providing Recognition
  • Cues, Questions, and Advance organizers
  • Nonlinguistic Representation
  • Summarizing and Note Taking
  • Cooperative Learning
  • Reinforcing Effort
  • Identifying Similarities and Differences
  • Homework and Practice
  • Generating and Testing Hypotheses

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Google Apps/Docs

  1. Register for An Account
  2. Logging in
  3. Docs Homepage
  4. New File
  5. Rename a File
  6. Save a File
  7. Folders
  8. Settings

Document

  1. Toolbar Buttons
  2. Highlighting Text
  3. Document Settings
  4. Print Documents
  5. Spell Check
  6. Insert an Image
  7. Insert a Comment
  8. Insert a Page Break
  9. Insert a Link
  10. Insert a Table
  11. Download a Document
  12. Revision History
  13. Share a Document
  14. Publish a Document

Spreadsheet

  1. M&Ms Graph I: Create new, Merge cells, Font size & type, Align, Entering data, Renaming
  2. M&Ms Graph II: Creating a Chart/Graph, Undo
  3. Parent Teacher Conference Schedule I: Formatting Cells, Autofill
  4. Parent Teacher Conference Schedule II: Working with Sheets, Wrap Text & Insert Line Breaks, Color Cells, Borders
  5. Parent Teacher Conference Schedule III: Sharing & Simultaneous Editing
  6. Parent Teacher Conference Schedule IV: Revision, Printing & Publishing
  7. Budget I: Format cells, Working with Columns & Rows
  8. Budget II: Formulas, Sorting, Text Color, Clear Content

Presentation

  1. Starting a Presentation
  2. Choose a Background
  3. Text Boxes
  4. Working With Slides
  5. Inserting a Hyperlink
  6. Insert an Image
  7. Insert a Shape
  8. Ordering Layered Items and Sequentially Revealing Objects
  9. Download or Print
  10. Publish a Presentation
  11. Giving an Online Presentation
  12. Allow Others to Edit Your Presentation
  13. Revision History

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