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I have worked in 3 different schools and they have all used Gmail. Unfortunately, we were never trained in Google Apps and all that they can do.
The first thing I can see myself doing is communicating with fellow teachers in our grade level team. This will be easy to do by creating a group for all of us. There are 5 of us this year and only 1 of us is not new to the district. It will be imperative that we communicate on a daily basis with each other.
I can also envision using Gmail to communicate with parents about their students and our work in the classroom or online (whatever route we go in the fall). This will be a great tool to provide updates about student work, help parents stay in the loop of the on-goings in our classroom, provide information about absent work, and just general communication. Email is definitely going to be my go-to other than Remind, which our building uses for everything.
Using Gmail will be a good way to communicate with students when they are in and out of the classroom. How cool would it have made you feel to get an email from your teacher about an assignment you did well on? Or to set up a meeting time to discuss a project? I think that this is a skill that our students need to become successful at as we are moving into a more digital age of education and work.
Another tool that I found really cool during my beginning exploration of Gmail is Google Keep. I added it as an extension to my tool bar and quickly learned that if I am on a website I can create a note that links right to that website. This would have been a tool that I used myself in research during school. I can't wait to share this feature with my students. I think it will be a valuable tool to have for research projects and any assignments that are online or completed from distance learning. The fact that it links the website makes it even cooler to me. I don't know how many times I have had to go make in my history to find a website that I needed and now my bookmarks won't become quite so congested! :)
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