Google Apps for Education

Torbert, Nancy

Google Enterprise. (2010, November 19). Google Apps for Education K12 Demo [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAfzcYWh5Gg

An introduction to Google Apps for Education and produced by Google.  The Day in the Life of a K-12 teacher provides an overview of how a teacher can use the Google calendar, documents, forms, spreadsheets and how students can share a document with the teacher through a shared folder.

Although the narration can be condescending at times, the information provided packs a lot of information and “food for thought”. Although created as an overview of a teacher’s day, I can see a lot of applications that the teacher librarian can incorporate into “their day”—for example, the teacher librarian collaborating with a teacher through a shared Google docs folder; forms to create book request, or an equipment check out request form; calendar to share the library calendar and also have faculty share their calendar; or assist teachers to use sites to create a classroom web page.