Assignment 2 EDUO 9150 Babecka

 Assignment 2 - GSuite Overview 

Review the following apps: Give an example of their use in education, K-12. List any current or future plans for their use. Include the subject area(s), expected benefits and any anticipated barriers to their successful use and how you could work to remedy the barrier. GSuite apps to review: Drive Document, Sheets, Slides, Form; Gmail; Sites; Classroom; Maps; Keep; Meet. 

GSuite Tool:  Drive	Purpose:  Share and store file information
Use in K-12 Curriculum and in Your Area: Teachers can post common files in one place that will allow for easy student access.  The teacher can just share one link and all students can have access to the folder.  It is also a great tool for having students submit files to one common place for easy checking and assessment.

GSuite Tool: Docs

Purpose: Excellent resource for not only typing documents, but also for its sharing abilities

Use in K-12 Curriculum and in Your Area: Students could use Google Docs to collaborate with students in class or across the globe on learning about a specific composer, piece, instrument, or genre.  By being cloud based, a shared document could be used to help students learn about music in their particular culture.  Not only does this allow a student to learn about another musical culture, but allows one to share his/her musical culture with others.  Students can also easily add images or links to show examples of music as examples.

GSuite Tool:  Sheets	Purpose: Excellent resource that allows you to easily track anything from budgets to calculations to class lists with the ability to share and collaboratively work on spreadsheets.
Use in K-12 Curriculum and in Your Area:  The class could collaborate on practice log tracking.  It would give the ability to calculate class averages from formula and equations by instrument and day in terms of the amount of time practicing.  Graphs and charts could also be created to provide a visual of the results.

GSuite Tool:  Slides	Purpose: Great tool for making presentations that are not only cloud based, but will look similar across any device.
Use in K-12 Curriculum and in Your Area:  Google Slides is great for creating interactive activities and quizzes, collaborative stories, and themed presentations.  I have limited technology in my classroom to actually use Google Slides as this requires computers and/or a projector.

GSuite Tool:  Forms

Purpose:  Great tool that allows one to create easy surveys that can reach a wide audience easily.

Use in K-12 Curriculum and in Your Area:   In addition to creating quizzes and general feedback, Forms can also be used in the classroom to create digital score sheets for export; digital sign-out sheet/logs; choose your own adventure stories; information collection like email and phone numbers; and sign up sheets for school projects and activities.  Forms may be shared through links or can be emailed to participants.

GSuite Tool: Gmail	Purpose: Way to easily communicate with parents and teachers
Use in K-12 Curriculum and in Your Area:  Great way to provide communication home for parents regarding the instrumental program.  Gmail also allows you to communicate with teachers and staff to problem solve without being physically present.

GSuite Tool:  Sites	Purpose:  Create websites
Use in K-12 Curriculum and in Your Area: You can reach a wide audience without providing individual resources to that audience.  Assignments and events can easily be added, while contact forms can make teacher contact easier for both the parent, student, and community.  Material can easily be updated and integration with other Google applications make it a very useful tool for educators.

GSuite Tool: Calendar	Purpose:  To keep track of dates; appointments; and events
Use in K-12 Curriculum and in Your Area:  Invite parents; teachers; school; and community to events.  Set appointment reminders.  Schedule performances and meetings.