Randy Damewood, Director of Technology Coffee County Schools
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Google Docs and Forms - A great way to share and gather information

Google Docs is an online document suite that allows you to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations and forms for data collection. Not everyone has to have a Google Account (however you will have more options if they do).
Google now uses the term Drive to mean Google Docs

For Session Only - Example of:  Standard Form, logic branching, Flubaroo (link to Flubaroo instructions) 

You can create a form using the spreadsheet or the form itself.
You can manage the results of form responses(click here for instructions)
Video Tour of Google Forms - an example of creating a simple form (Youtube)
Using a Form in an Observation Mode (youtube)
21 Examples of Google Forms for Teachers and Administrators that you can copy a use (When you click on the document it will ask you to make a copy)

Using a Doc to collaborate (Doc could mean Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations and Forms)
Examples of use: School Handbooks, Staff Meeting agenda, Program for Parent Night
You can also just share a doc to anyone that you like (no gmail  Click here for instructions on Google Sharing and Good video explaination

Sample forms for the Administrator (Anonymous Bullying Report, Request a Conference with a Principal, Computer Repair Request, Google Account Help, Counselor Request for Appointment Form, Schedule Change Request, Nominate Fellow Student for Excellence in Sitizenship, Student's Choice for Teacher of Excellence Nomination, Self Report on Misbehavior


(Presentation Note - Show tech Help Desk)

Session Only - real time example of collaborating on a Document, Spreadsheet

Comments can be added to a doc (click here for instructions)
Chat can occur while working on a doc (click here for instructions)


Google Sites - Sites is the tool to tie all of the Google Docs together - For more information on Google Sites, please click here to go to my Google Sites Resource

I suggest getting the iPad, iPhone and Andriod Drive App for use on mobile devices
Cool Tip - Use your mobile device to do voice dictation in Google Docs and then come back and do final edit on your computer)
  

More Information - Many links for your and your staff
Questions and Answers about Google Docs  

Questions and Answers about Google Spreadsheets

Questions and Answers about Google Forms

Questions and Answers about Google Presentations

Google Docs and the Paperless Classroom

Designing Assessment Using the Power of Google Forms

Using Flubaroo to automatically grade tests