Category Archives: google docs

Collaborating across continents with Google Docs

Some time ago several of my colleagues visited South Africa as part of a project on school twinning. As part of this project they had planned to work with pupils in South Africa on filming and editing video using flip cameras. Unfortunately the computers available to them were not capable of video editing, so they [...]

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Google Teacher Academy (#gtauk): Reflections

So I have returned from the first international Google Teacher Academy “With weary joints, and a beating mind”. Having had some time to digest it all I want to reflect a little on the experience.

There was a conversation on twitter after the event inviting people to describe the experience in [...]

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My #gtauk presentation: Collaborating on teaching writing

At the time this is published I am presenting at the Google Teacher Academy on the development of the use of Google Docs for writing with Year 4 at Robin Hood Primary School. I have blogged about the practicalities of using Google Docs for personalising writing before here,and this was also the subject of my [...]

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GTA approaches

There are two more days until I set off to London for the Google Teacher Academy, and things seem to be ramping up. For those interested in the event I have written a guest post for the Digital Birmingham Blog, explaining what the event is and what I hope to get out of it.
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My Google Teacher Academy Application

This summer Google are expanding their teacher academy from the US and bringing it to the UK. I decided to apply to be a part of it, as it is the collaborative tools that Google (and others) are developing that I feel are the most powerful step forward in educational I.C.T. in recent years.
As part [...]

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Personalising writing lessons with the new Google Docs

We currently have a strong focus on developing writing in our school, and I have been working for some time of developing the structure of my writing lessons to get the best out of the pupils in my class. On the advice of Zoe Case (@ZCase), a fellow NQT I have been trying to really [...]

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1:1: Starting Google Docs

Last week, with our wifi internet now working more reliably, I introduced my class to google docs.
I had originally wanted to set up google apps for education across our school domain, but as this is something we have to apply for, and possibly negotiate with the local authority about, I took the plunge and installed [...]

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