Welcome to teaching and Learning with Google and Canvas: Instructor Implementations. My
name is Laura Mirochna and I'll be sharing with you some of the creative instructors
who have done impressive work merging the capabilities of Google and Canvas to make
their courses more effective. This presentation will highlight using Google sites for conferences
or student portfolios scheduling virtual meetings using meet, using drive for large file storage,
collecting data, using Google forms and multi-section courses and using Google docs in collaboration
with other students and instructors. As you can see from this list several faculty have
used Google sites for a variety of conferences this year including colloquium, symposium,
and even peer tutoring support. At the PT Research conference they used breakout rooms
with six pre-recorded videos in each breakout room, I don't know if you've ever been to
a conference presentation, but almost every time there's some sort of an issue with technology
or screen not sharing or not being able to see what's on the screen and so having the
pre-recorded videos really helped deal with the time factor where they could have multiple
videos in a very short amount of time, so that they didn't have to deal with any of
the technology issues.
For the professional reasoning colloquium, one of our concerns was international time
zones. So having this Google site allows for pre-recorded sessions as well as the live
sessions simultaneously, so that anyone who is in a different time zone can still participate
in the conversation. The Dallas Tutoring Center is now called Myers JHG Tutoring and Academic
Support Center and Niki Fogg has done some great work creating this Google site and one
of my favorite features is her Google calendar. She has an appointment schedule here and then
the peer tutors themselves have a Google appointments slot calendar where if you click on their
office hour time slot it will give you a zoom link automatically saved to your calendar.
The OT doctoral research symposium had an interesting problem of only having a few zoom
links available, so we had four zoom links that were used simultaneously throughout the
conference and created a spread sheet so that we knew whose zoom link was being used at
what time. Of course, all of this started back with the 15th annual teaching learning
symposium where we created pre-recorded sessions and the live sessions for faculty.
There's a KB article for this If you want to know more about using symposiums, colloquium
and events using Google sites. Google sites also works really well for e-portfolios. There's
a template on the Google site that makes it really easy to create your own. You can type
in the text boxes, you can add images to the plus signs, you can publish the site and then
using this link you can share it. So if you want to create something quickly, you can
share inside of a conference presentation by putting the share link in the chat or can
share or your students can share their presentations with you using the same type of link, so that
you can see their work. We also have a KB article for this one called student e-portfolios
using Google sites. Using the Google classroom for non-credit courses, communities, and collaborative
spaces is also really easy. We've created a sample of course for you to give you some
ideas of how it might be used. You can check out our KB article for more information about
that. If your students want to meet to do group work or project work, they can use Google
meet instead of zoom. If you go to meet.google.com you would create a new meeting and it gives
you three choices, scheduled a meeting for later, start an instant meeting or schedule
in Google calendar. When you go to Google calendar it will give you this menu where
you can give it a description and add your guests and then choosing Google meet will
give you a meet link and you can remove the zoom meeting link.
Dr. Levitt gave us this quote about using drive for large file storage. I use Google
drive to distribute lecture slides hand outs and other materials. When we transition from
blackboard to Canvas in the past it was very complicated for me because of the limited
storage space of Canvas, Google drive solve such problems. Once I share a Google drive
folder with the students it is straightforward and materials are always there. Using Google
drive is very much like having a shared file cabinet with the entire class, my students
love it and I do too. For more information here there is a KB article called hyper link
or embed files from my drive into campus. The same article talks about how to use Google
docs in collaboration with other students and instructors. This example here is a nursing
faculty summary evaluation tool which used to be this document that you see here that
was downloaded and printed and filled out by hand and shared between faculty members.
Google docs made that process much simpler. There's no more downloading, no more printing.
They can just share the Google doc with each other and all of the faculty that need to
write on the tool can add their text or score and then they can share this tool directly
with the student.
Abigail Morris has given us this video about collecting data using Google forms. If you
have more information about that you can see our KB article called multiple course surveys
and quizzes using forms.
The TW libraries have been using Google forms for assessment for years. One example of how
we have implemented them is in our UNIV Library workshops. In the past when we wanted to collect
data for UNIV Library workshops. We had to be added to each section of UNIV which is
as many as 50 sections, then we would upload our quizzes into the courses and then download
our results and spend time compiling the data. The entire process took weeks of work and
involved multiple people and included getting permission from each UNIV instructor to have
a librarian added to their course. Now using Google forms for UNIV Library workshops we
are able to easily add links to our quizzes and surveys to all sections of UNIV. The results
are automatically accessible to us. We are also able to include a link to the video tutorial
in the form to help ensure the students have watched the workshop. All of this has allowed
us to improve our statistics and more easily make adjustments to our instruction based
on quiz results. As an added bonus we generally higher graduate students to help with our
UNIV Library workshops. Using Google forms allows our interns to access our data without
accessing any private student information and Canvas. This allows them to be more involved
in our statistics and assessment processes.
Hi I'm Noralyn Pickens from the School of Occupational Therapy. Just wanted to say a
few things about Google sites. These have been an
amazing tool for us for a couple of research and symposiums and as you can see our professional
reasoning colloquium. These are two events, one was internal for our doctoral students
and faculty and the other is this international colloquium that we're hosting this fall.
These sites have been an amazing place for us to really showcase Texas Woman's, not only our
incredible staff that you're learning from this week,
but all the resources that we have available to us at Texas Woman's.
What I really like about these Google sites is that it looks easy from the outside,
there's a lot of running on the back side that the staff have been doing in terms of preparing these,
but they're wonderful landing pages. We are able to link to different zoom pages
or zoom sites to different pages of the sites.
It really keeps people super organized, it looks really professional.
It's a really great way to show off Texas Woman's, so I hope you enjoy using Google sites yourself.
All of the KB articles are listed here on the resources page. If you want more information,
there is also a Google Academy coming up on October 21st for level one and November 4th
for level two, of course, you don't have to complete level one before you go on to level
two, they're not sequential, so you can join us at either one and I really hope to see you there.
If you have more questions, you can contact us at any of these places at
teaching and learning with technology.