Together we will explore how Google Sites can be used to set up and manage websites. We will take a closer look at embedding videos, documents, and forms as well.

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Our guest presenter – Charlotte Parliament, Literacy and Essential Skills Program Coordinator at Simcoe County District School Board – shared how she uses Google Apps, such as Google Sites, Forms, Sheets and Docs, to set up and manage intake, as well as digital skills and learning styles assessments online.

During this webinar, these topics were dicussed:

• How to set up surveys using Google Forms.
• Sample surveys created by Simcoe County District School Board.
• Extracting instructor and learner feedback data.
• Tips for creating meaningful, easy-to-use forms.  

Quickly find and manage online resources with bookmarking tool, Diigo

Do you have a list of websites you want to reference in a Word document?

How about a bunch of links stored away in various emails in your inbox? In this webinar, we show the simple organizing power of bookmarking tool Diigo.

This tool allows you to amalgamate, simplify, organize and share your collection of links.

This webinar will also reveal useful links from the AlphaPlus Web Index, to add to your own collection of resource links.

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Navigating online surveys is becoming more common for learners as programs assess clients and gather feedback.

This webinar will outline a lesson plan that helps learners use survey and assessment tools to help them build their confidence and skills to complete them independently . The lesson plan integrates customizable surveys in SurveyMonkey and Google Forms. During this webinar, we will also discuss valuable information about clients’ use of digital survey tools as well as their preferences and best practices.

Protopage is a free and easy-to-use RSS reader, Internet start page and virtual desktop. If you have ever wished to be able to easily collect, store and find web pages, bookmarks and notes, then Protopage is the tool for you. Learn how easy it is to stay on top of what’s happening in adult education, technology and the world. This tool also allows you to easily save bookmarks and notes all in one place and for free!

This 2017 webinar provides an overview of Dropbox and how it can be used as an alternative for an internal network that enables resources sharing and back up of files.

Dropbox and Google have competed to provide cloud storage and file sharing. We review how Dropbox works and what makes it different from Google Drive. We have a quick look at productivity tools and sharing features before outlining how Dropbox has been used in LBS programs to create a local “network”.

No more getting that USB stick and going from one lab computer to the next to copy learning activities. We look at how you can “network” computers with Dropbox, how you can share folders and files, and how you can use Dropbox as an automatic and remote backup.

DLI Tech Tuesday: Using Evernote with low-level adult literacy students – success story

 Slack is a powerful instant messaging and collaboration tool designed for teams that offers users a streamlined solution to manage email volume by consolidating communication into one place.

During the Slack webinar we tour the tool, exploring features like:

• Channels – organizing team communications by projects, topics, and teams so everyone can see what’s happening.
• Direct Messages-sending direct instant messages, and private communication to colleagues.
• Integrating apps and tools like Twitter, Dropbox, SoundCloud into Slack.

Google Drive is a free service from Google. It that allows users to store files online and access them from anywhere and on any device using the cloud. Explore and learn how Google Drive can help your team to work collaboratively, and to create, edit, and share documents, spreadsheets, survey, quizzes and much more.