Personal Vision for the Implementation of Google’s web-based tools at DJHS

Google web-based tools can help improve collaboration and communication within my school in many ways.  I envision all teachers at DJHS in the near future using Google Docs to plan lessons together.   I also see them using Google forms to gather almost immediate feedback on student performance.  All teachers will also use g-mail to collaborate with parents and fellow teachers in real time. Administrators, teachers, students, and parents will rely on Google Calendar to keep track of deadlines.  I envision a school that has everyone “in the loop”.  I believe that Google web-based tools can make this vision become a reality.

Google Calendar, Docs, and Blogs are the three tools that I am most likely to implement.  The Calendar is so easy to implement and everyone involved can revise it as needed.  The coolest part is that multiple calendars can be viewed on one page.  Google Docs can easily organize all of my documents even if they are made with another program.  I can use it to allow students to create documents and spreadsheets and their work can even be posted to a blog or published as a web page.  Google Blogs will allow me to have communication with parents and students on a weekly basis.  They will all know what is going on in my class at all times.

I have learned that every school that has implemented Google apps, such as the Calendar, Docs, and Blogger, have all experienced an increase in communication, collaboration, and student success.  The web-based tools are so easy to implement there is no good reason not to get everyone on board and using these tools.  I was most fascinated with the blogger tool.  It was incredibly easy to create a blog, add pictures, and publish it as a web page.  I enjoyed the success stories from the administrators dealing with the blogging tool.   With Google Blogger parents can really get to know their child’s administrator and what his educational philosophy is.

Part a. of the “Visionary Leadership” standard states that …Educational Administrators will inspire and facilitate among all stakeholders a shared vision of purposeful change that maximizes use of digital-age resources to meet and exceed learning goals, support effective instructional practice, and maximize performance of district and school leaders.  My vision involves using Google web-based tools such as Calendar, Docs, Forms, and Blogger to improve collaboration and communication between administrators, teachers, students, and parents.  The use of these tools will definitely be a purposeful change that will maximize our digital age resources.  It will also maximize the performance of our school and its leaders.