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Week 2: Take Google to School Part 1
 **Participants will:** **Review**: ** **Blogger:** __ [|http://www.commoncraft.com/video/blogs] __  **Preview**
 * ||  During this session participants will review the difference between Blogger, WikiSpaces, Google for Education and the more "generic" Google accounts. Participants will use different apps associated with both. Participants will create and use a Diigo for Education account.
 * **Wikispaces:** __ [|http://www.commoncraft.com/video/wikis] __
 * **Google Account and Sites with School Domain v. Google Accounts and Sites with Gmail:** __ [] __


 * "Using Google in the Classroom" [|http://bit.ly/4penFg]
 * 20 Interesting Ways to Use Google Docs [|http://bit.ly/guj6uK]

 **Create**  ** Diigo teacher account for storing bookmarks: [|http://diigo.com] ** Learn the basics of: ||  Assignment:  ** Students AND/OR Teacher creates survey or form that applies to their own class’ lessons. >>  [|http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/11/19/backchanneling-with-elementary-school-students/]
 * @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlqfJsmjcOs
 * Diigo Teacher Console - for creating groups and sharing bookmarks.
 * Google Site (website) in the MVSDPRIDE.org domain
 * Google MVSDPRIDE.org Homepage
 *  Google Page Types [|http://bit.ly/googlesitespagetypes]
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Sites menus and tools for:
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Editing and New pages icons
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: medium;">"More" drop down menu for:
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Page Actions and Page Templates
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Site Actions
 * <span style="background-color: #f5f5f5; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Recent site activity]
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Page]
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Attachments]
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Page templates]
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Apps Scripts]
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Deleted items]
 * General
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Sharing and Permissions]
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Site layout]
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Colors and Fonts]
 * <span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Themes]
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Docs which includes Doc; Spreadsheets; Forms; Drawings; Presentations; Folders
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Google Docs: [|Google Docs in Plain English]
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Editing Docs
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Word Count
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Inserting images, links, and comments
 * [|Collaborating and Sharing]
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Publishing and printing
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Creating and publishing quizzes from their own classroom instructional materials using Google Forms
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Embedding Docs, Calendars, and Quizzes in their Google Site
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Access, use, and/or review
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Google Search Tools: Wonder Wheel, Timeline, Books, News, Scholar, Related Search
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Google Calendar
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Google Sites
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Google Chrome Browser
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Use the form in class and upload this artifact to student and teacher eportfolios.
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;">Create participants’ own class Diigo group account.
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Save bookmarks for this topic to both course and classroom Diigo accounts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read //Backchannelling in a First Grade Classroom:// [|http://grade1ad.litcircuits.com/2010/03/27/backchanneling-in-grade-1/]  [|http://missjennieb.edublogs.org/2011/01/18/backchanneling/]