Building Learning Communities 2011

Google Apps for Education provides a free cross platform set of tools for educators. You can create Web sites, collect digital homework, manage student portfolios and much more. If your district has adopted Google Apps for Education, or is thinking about it, then this session is for you. Many districts have dived into Google Apps without a clear system for managing the digital work created there by teachers and students. We will walk through tips and tricks in setting up a Google Apps Domain and include real examples and best practices of how to utilize these tools in an educational setting. 

• Administrators and Technicians will see a variety of ways to manage a Google Apps for Education Domain.
• Principals will learn how to introduce student directed digital portfolios to their staff.
• Teachers will learn how to achieve a paperless classroom that emphasizes student ownership of the work.
• Students will see examples of how adoption of these tools in their classrooms will make management of their workload easier.