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>> Jeff Bond: Hello and welcome to PATINS TV. I am your
host Jeff Bond. This is Episode 41 of our series. Today we have a special guest from
the Indiana Online Academy. Her name is Kim Hendrick. I am going to let Kim actually walk
us through some social media things that have really been incorporated in the school systems
and just basic general use by everyone. Kim we are going to talk about Google Docs and
I know you have a have a PowerPoint presentation. Could you tell us a little about Google Docs
and what that really involves?
>> Kim Hendrick: Sure.
>> Jeff Bond: Some people may not know.
>> Kim Hendrick: Thank you for having me today. I really appreciate
it. Google Docs is a tool that I use every day. It is a way for you to collaborate. It
incorporates your calendar, your Gmail and a lot of schools are using Chromebooks so
Google has really become the platform for Google Apps for Education. There are lots
of plug-ins and things like that. Today I am really going to focus on some of the Google
Add-Ons that were just added in March and try to show some of the ways that we can use
those.
>> Jeff Bond: Great. Great.
>> Kim Hendrick: I will go ahead and get started. Again, thanks
for having me. Again, my name is Kim Hendrick. I am the eLearning and Marketing Specialist
at the Indiana Online Academy here at the Central Indiana Educational Service Center.
I would love to connect with you on Twitter so my Twitter handle is on the screen. It
is @evolvewithkim. I would love to connect with you via that way. Again, this is just
kind of a graphic to show all of the different ways that Google can be used. Again, there
are docs. There are spreadsheets. Basically, it is like taking Microsoft Office and putting
it on the Cloud on Google. The different add-ons again that were added just in March I wanted
to showcase for you. Instead of going live I thought I would just show it via PowerPoint
so we can stay on track here. So when you go to Google you will actually have to have
a document opened or a spreadsheet. You would just go along the top menu bar and you would
click on the Add-ons. Then you will see a dropdown. These are all the ones that I have
added to my Google Docs, but you would just click on Get add-ons. When you do that you
will see multiple ways that you can connect with these add-ons. When you hover over the
top of it, it will actually tell you what it is. You can add these different add-ons.
I would definitely look at the terms of service to make sure that it is appropriate for the
students in your class. Some of these add-ons you actually have to get like an extra account
so you really need to think through that. You can see here that there is just a wealth
of different types of tools that you can use. I want to highlight just a few of the favorite
ones that I have used. The first one is something called UberConference. This is a way that
when you are connecting with other educators or with other professionals, you can connect
on your Google documents and connect live. Then you can actually setup a conference call.
So you can basically it will give you the call in number and a pin and then you can
actually send that out. See you can invite people to join your conference call. You can
record the meeting. You can lock it so that no one else can join. You can hang up. The
great thing about it is whoever is the person who is setting up the conference can upload
all of their information on other social media. It can link to their Linkedln account. It
can link to their Google Plus account. It can show their Twitter. Again, it is a great
way to tie in that social media into Google. Then, when you go to the user interface on
the web it will give you a conference summary so it will show everyone who was involved
in that conference. It will time it for you so you can archive it and have information
on that. You can also actually setup and schedule your own conference calls through this, as
well, so that you can send out invites for people to connect on Google Docs. A lot of
people would use Google Hangouts, but sometimes people don't have a Google account so this
is a great way for you to use that.
>> Jeff Bond: Is there a charge for that?
>> Kim Hendrick: No, it is free. All of these are free. The
next one I wanted to talk about is called Kaizena. This is a way for teachers to give
functional feedback to students or for students to give feedback to each other. So as they
are working on a Google document they can actually open this plug-in and let's say,
for example, that they are talking about the SAMR model. That is one of the things we talk
about in our Technology Leadership Certification Program. So if I want to get some feedback
on that you can see here on the screen I can give audio feedback. I can give text feedback
or I can actually give the person another link to more information. You can see here
that I would open that and it would tell the person exactly what I have given the information
on. Then you just select who you want to send it to so whoever is collaborating on this
document you would say who you are going to send it to. Then when that person opens the
document they would go into their comment section and they would see that they have
feedback from that person. You can see here that now as a user I get that feedback. I
can listen to the audio feedback. I can see what they said about it and I can look at
the other link. It is just a really great way for you to give feedback just in a free
and easy way. The next one I want to highlight is called the Twitter Curator. This is a great
way for you take tweets that are out there and to put them into a document. When you
open this add-on you just put a hashtag in so this is the hashtag that we use for our
program, #ciesctlc, and so down the side you will see all the different tweets that pop
up. So if there is one that I want to put into my document I just click on it and it
adds it to the document. You will see here that it actually adds it as a like a JPEG,
but it also still has a live link. So you will see here that this is highlighted. If
I click on that link within the Google document it will take me out to the blog that is referenced
there. It is just a really great way for you to archive and curate some of those tweets
that you might want to send to other people. The next one that I wanted to showcase is
called EasyBib. We know that as more students are out online and they are not quite sure
how to always site there sources. Even adults I feel that we don't do a very good job of
this. I wanted to highlight this one because I think it is really important that students
and adults really site their sources. This makes it really easy to do. You can actually
site a book, a journal article or a website. For example, I typed in the Connected Educator
that is one of the books we use. It pulls it up. I can just click on what type I want
to put this in if it is APA, MLA or Chicago Style. Click on add bibliography to doc and
boom it adds it into a reference section.
>> Jeff Bond: That makes it really easy.
>> Kim Hendrick: It makes it really, really easy.
>> Jeff Bond: Naturally it is still important to have that
documentation whenever...
>> Kim Hendrick: Absolutely and as kids go onto college and
things like that they are going to have to site their sources. This makes it really easy
to follow those guidelines. This last one really is more for younger students and I
think this is a great way, you know a lot of times kids will go online and they will
just take a screen capture of something online or they will save a source that they may not
have the copyright...there could be copyright laws that are being broken. This clipart allows
students to go in and find clipart that they can use for free. It is all open source so
we don't have to worry about them using it or breaking the law taking things that you
might not have the ability to use. This is an example of the openclipart. You open up
that add-on and basically you just select it and it adds it to your document. You can
do a text wrap around it so it is just like any other program. There is I think like 50,000
different clipart sources that you can use.
>> Jeff Bond: Wow, that is a lot.
>> Kim Hendrick: They are very elementary kind of look.
>> Jeff Bond: They look pretty generic.
>> Kim Hendrick: Yes, pretty generic. Again, just read those
terms of service and make sure that it is appropriate for your students to use before
you go into that. That is one advice I would give is to make sure that you try it out yourself
first before you use it as an educator and just to make sure it makes sense. That is
really all I wanted to share today. I want to make sure that you know you can follow
us on Twitter. The Indiana Online Academy we have our Twitter handle which is @INOnlineacademy.
Again, mine is @evlovewithkim and we also have @CIESCTweets and I know everyone follows
your PATINS Project, as well. We also have a Google Community called CIESC connect where
we post a lot of these type of resources for teachers.
>> Jeff Bond: Great.
>> Kim Hendrick: Again, it is free. If you want to find us
on Google Plus you can go to CIESC connect and connect with us in that way. Again, thank
you for having me and I really appreciate it.
>> Jeff Bond: Thank you very much for coming. I appreciate
your sharing a lot of information that sometimes people just don't understand the add-ons and
those kinds of things. We have used Google. We have used a variety of things, but it really
makes it nice to have in a nutshell those kinds of things that are available.
>> Kim Hendrick: They are adding resources every day. It seems
like they add something new every single day.
>> Jeff Bond: It is worth checking.
>> Kin Hendrick: Worth checking out.
>> Jeff Bond: Great. Well thank you. We just had our technology
fair last month and we have a little episode or excerpt of what the vendors presented and
some of the folks that were there. So let's take a look at that please.
[Video music playing] Hello this is Jeff Bond with the PATINS Live
TV. I am here at our 2014 Tech Expo. We are going to walk around a little bit and see
some of the vendors that we have here. We have over 40 vendors. This is our 14th year.
It has always been well represented. It is for anyone really in the state of Indiana
and even outside of the state of Indiana to come and participate free of charge. Currently
we have 40 vendors that are here showing their technology and expertise in their particular
field. We will have breakout sessions and during the day the participants can come and
see what the vendors actually have. So come with me and we will take a look at some of
those vendors.
Dave Buist from Lightspeed Technologies. I am here demonstrating classroom audio solutions.
Hi everybody. My name is Glenn Dobbs. I am the President of ProxTalker.com. I am Jon
McPeters with TextHELP and what we do is we really make computers accessible for students.
Hi, I am Dr. Ray Heipp and I am from Westminster Technologies over in Ohio. Today I want to
tell you a little bit about the ASK NAO robot. I am Zach Bender from Don Johnston, Incorporated.
It is good to be here today. We have been demoing First Author. Hi, I am Ed Vitu with
E. M. Vitu, Incorporated. I thought it was great this year. I have attended before and
I have enjoyed looking at all the vendors and some of the new products that they brought.
Gave us a lot of good information and the workshops have been really good. I enjoyed
seeing the products that are out that are new that are changing and I enjoyed the lectures
and the presentations because it also gives me the ability to teach my students in a better
more challenging way. I loved it. It is a really nice opportunity to come and meet with
some of the vendors that we work with in our school district and you get to see them a
couple times during the school year, but it is nice to have a chance to really sit and
talk with them and troubleshoot some of the problems that you have and get solutions to
things that will work with your kids. The Tech Expo has been great. I have been to several
of them and this has been one of the best ones. I have really enjoyed it. Every session
has been meaningful and purposeful and I am going to bring something back to a lot of
people. I got some curriculum ideas that we are going to take back, as well as, some technology
that I think we are going to be able to use.
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Well, thank you for joining us at this 2014 Tech Expo presented by the PATINS Project.
I am your host Jeff Bond and thank you for coming.
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>> Jeff Bond: Alright, well that was just a little snippet
of the Tech Expo that PATINS had here this past April 2014. We actually have about 27
minutes of a video that we are going to post online. It will be at our PATINS website,
www.patinsproject.com. You can take a look there and check us out. It gives you a good
overview of what was presented by some of the vendors and some feedback from folks that
enjoyed the day. We have a vendor coming for our third Tuesday of the month. That is our
vendor day. Our vendor for that particular day is going to be Ed Vitu. He is with E .M.
Vitu, Inc. Ed has products for individuals that have a visual impairment. He will demonstrate
some of the software and some equipment that he handles at his company. With that I think
we are going to go ahead and sign off.
>> Kim Hendrick: Great.
>> Jeff Bond: Hope to see you at our next PATINS Live TV.
>> Kim Hendrick: Thank you Jeff I appreciate it.
>> Jeff Bond: Thank you. You're welcome.
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