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5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Google Apps

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(or at least 5 things you might not have known)

With OC’s decision to go with Google as our email and apps hosting solution a couple of years ago, many faculty/staff and students are continuing to find more efficient and creative ways of using Google Apps. For example, in his acclaimed Urban Ministry course, as a part of analyzing urban areas regarding family life, justice issues, ethnicities, religious culture, (and several other aspects that relate to ministry), Dr. Charles Rix asks students to construct an Asset Map of the area. The canvas for the asset map has become Google Drawings, which affords students the ability to:

  • overlay images electronically (think Google Maps)
  • mark up the image with colored shapes of varying transparency (think Priceline)
  • overlay text boxes
  • make comments on each area
  • (if desired) collaborate in real time with students and/or instructor

I took a few minutes to draw an Asset Map of the OC campus area popout. Users in the OC Apps community can edit and/or comment on the map.
(Dr. Rix, please refrain from grading my lackluster effort!).

That’s just one example of using Google Apps in an educational setting to enhance the teaching and learning process through collaboration and use of current web technologies. Here is a link to several more tips:
http://apps4gapps.com/5-things-you-didnt-know-you-could-do-with-google-apps.

One of my favorites is using shortcut keys in the gmail web app popout. Using these shortcuts has surely saved me a vacation week’s worth of time over the past couple of years!


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