Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Community College and Continuing Education Educators are invited to attend our upcoming TeacherTECH workshop. The workshop will be focused on learning to use Google Docs and its many uses for the classroom.

Monday, July 13, 2009
4:30pm - 6:30pm
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Training Room 279
University of California, San Diego


Workshop Overview:
Google Docs is different and a great addition to any classroom!

Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editor that enables you and your students to create, store and share instantly and securely, and collaborate online in real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. There's no software to download, and all your work is stored safely online and can be accessed from any computer.

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way.

The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You’ll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.

In this workshop, you will learn the basics of Goodle Docs, as well as tips and tricks for using it in the classroom with your students.


How Students and Teachers can use Google Docs:
Teachers are using Google Docs both to publish announcements about upcoming assignments and to monitor student progress via an interactive process which allows you to give guidance when it might be of maximum benefit – while your student is still working on an assignment. Through the revisions history, you can see clearly who contributed to what assignment and when; if a student says he or she worked on a given project over the last two weeks, it will be documented (no more "dog ate my homework" excuses).

Students will find that Google Docs can help them stay organized and keep on top of their assignments. They never have to remember to save their work; it happens automatically. It's easy to collaborate online with fellow students, even when they aren't in the same place, and they can get feedback easily from teachers, parents, relatives and tutors, and enter updates anytime from anywhere. And kids can go back to the revisions history to see how their assignment has evolved, and who has helped.

Please join us for an exciting and informative hands-on workshop presented by Mike Senise, San Diego Unified School District.

Registration is free. Space is limited. Please contact Ange Mason at 858-534-5064 or amason@ucsd.edu to reserve your space.

For more information on upcoming TeacherTECH workshops, please see http://education.sdsc.edu/teachertech.