Google for Educators

Google for Educators is a brilliant tool that has opened many doors for communication, knowledge, and wisdom through technology. It has opened many avenues in learning and teaching our world today. Many of the resources would be genius, however, as a physical education teacher I will bring Google calendar, Google notebook, and blogger in my classroom this year.

Google calendar will be a great way for each students, teachers, and parents to organize schedules of games, practices, and workouts. You can share a calendar with a specific group that is working on the same goal, or deadlines for a test. You can set up meeting with administration, teachers, and/or other students. You can also keep your personal calendar set up so you do not overlap on meetings, practices, appointments. It is quite nice being able to keep all available time in one arena and not having to write everything down or possibly even lose track of where you wrote it.

Google notebook is a great place to put all the info that you need when you are trying to create lesson plans or research topics. It is the place that you can place all the info that you find and then build from there. I also like that idea that you can track interests of groups that you participate in so you can refer to the again. Google notebook is a great user-friendly tool can be used regardless where you are.

I really like the idea of using blogger for my students. I feel it takes them on their own personal journey for what is going on in their life. I feel they can express how things are going personally, use it as a way to connect to other teammates, friends, parents, and teachers. You can watch their progress, goals, or struggles being expressed through blogging. I feel blogger can be a place for team and community building with keeping people updated on upcoming games or events. Blogger can be used as a journal, a good place to put down thoughts or channel energy and possibly open the doors for teachers, parents and students to correspond.

Google docs is a great multi-use tool for parents, students and parents. Google docs is a fabulous tool that requires no software; work is stored safely and can be utilized on any computer. It opens the doors to word processing, creating presentations and spreadsheets that you can share and communicate at real time with other students. The idea of real time, allows students and teachers to give feedback to each other and help process each other’s work in a fashionable time.

As an upcoming teacher in the time of technology, I am exciting learning how to incorporate the technology in the physical education arena. It is helping me fine-tune the balance for physical activity and collaborate the benefits of our digital world. I feel Google for Educators is a brilliant tool for learning.