Smart Academy

Google have very kindly create a bank of lesson plans and resources to help your students get started with google apps.  You can find them here;

Google Apps Lesson Plans using Docs, Sites, and Calendar.

Google have an excellent training site that will provide you with everything you need to know about getting started and the more advanced features of google apps.

http://edutraining.googleapps.com/

Use this to help explain Google Apps and the cloud to your staff.

Google Apps Commercial from realsmart on Vimeo.

There are loads of applications for using Google forms to collect information. I would like to use this example to help organise our next INSET day.

Using Forms in Google Docs from realsmart on Vimeo.

A really good animation to explain what Google Docs are in “Plain English”

Google Docs in Plain English from realsmart on Vimeo.

Have a look at this video to see some of the improvements google have made to Apps for Education.

More Google applications from realsmart on Vimeo.

realsmart allows us to create self assessed portfolios, learning passports and collaborative mind maps, blogs and websites.

Our students use realsmart as their learning portfolios. Our teachers use it too for their CPD.

realsmart has a great blog that contains loads of help, case studies etc to get us started and for more sophisticated use.

Access it here:

www.rlsmart.net/help