SLATE, August 18, 2010

Google Apps for Education, Bboogle (ba-boogle) and Beyond

Agenda

• Campus greetings: James Altman• Google Apps for Education and

Bboogle: Brian Nielsen• Break• Faculty Panel• NU IT Panel: Wendy Woodward,

Brian Nielsen, James Altman, Ron Blitz, Jeff Merrell, Keeley Soroki

What is Google Apps for Education (GAE)?

Introduced at Northwestern in 2007

Four key components:  Gmail                                      Google Docs                                      Google Calendar                                      Google Sites

The “@u” domain

No cost solution?

Google Docs

DocumentsFolders Presentations 

Spreadsheets    FormsAny file format to 1G

WordExcelPowerPoint

Why Bboogle?

Yesterday’s

Teaching

Model

Today’s

Model

For

Learning

What is Bboogle?

• A “connector” technology: Google Apps in Blackboard Learn

• An open source Building Block, available at http://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/bboogle

• Developed at Northwestern for Blackboard 8 , 9, and 9.1

• As open source, we are encouraging other developers/instructional technologists to join us in contributing to the future of Bboogle

What Does Bboogle Offer?

1 2

3

Google Bookmarklet

4Single SignOn5

Faculty and Student Response

http://new-learning.northwestern.edu/bboogle

What does Bboogle Offer?

• Collaborative Writing• Group Presentations• Aggregating and managing data

collections• Calendar overlays• Collaborative multimedia• Hypertext – Google Sites

And, importantly …

MANAGES PERMISSIONS

AND

CREATES GROUPS

What should you expect?

• Students are engaged

• Instructors are pondering possible instructional activities/designs

• Many instructors need more assistance and support for Google Apps than for Bboogle

• Modeling other learning project scenarios will help promote adoption of Bboogle