Google
Incorporated is a multi-billion dollar tech company with a global brand
visibility. There is so much gain in running with Google. In education and
business today, Google is leading the global market. Hence, it will be a minus
for educational and business brands to ignore the so many great offers from
Google.
Pursuing
an e-learning experience is one thing every educational institution should
vigorously look into in this wake of 21st century paradigm. Fortunately,
Google offers every needed tool that drives effective marketing and e-learning
experience for schools.
In
this post, I show you 9 powerful Google tools your school needs for marketing
and educational benefits.
#1. Google mail (Gmail)
While there are lots of email service providers, running with a Gmail account
can help to tremendously boost your marketing prospects as an individual or a
corporate.
How do you do this? Create an email signature in your Gmail handle. It
remains one of the most effective marketing tools for marketers and promoters
of product.
Something like this: Chima
Ezuo, the ………. Training teachers and corporate managers on the use of trending
digital tools for maximum impact. Visit our training page at (hyperlink
attached).
Contact us: Phone: xxxxxxxxxxx; Twitter: @xxxxxxx; Contact Address:
xxxxxxxxx, Nigeria. Check out my newest book on xxxxxxx.
With
email signature, schools or brands who send out regular mails to their contacts
and potential clients, can easily announce new events, new publications, new
blog post, very important information, name it.
#2. Google Drive
Google Drive is a world of endless possibilities, ranging from free
cloud storage of files to creating hyperlinks for files that have none, the
usage is quite unending.
As
part of running a paperless office, schools can use Google Drive to save their
important files permanently. Special files like students’ results, confidential
management files etc can be secure in folders under the Google Drive.
You
can also make every of the school files- audio, video, graphic, text- shareable
by creating a hyperlink for each of them to be shared with your students,
parents and clients.
What
this means is that instead of wasting paper and ink printing Newsletter, Exam
result and other regular dispatch to parents, teachers can rather create
hyperlinks for each of these files and send at the click of a button to
parents’ email addresses.
#3. Google forms
Google Forms can be used for both customized
worksheet for our classroom engagement and powerful marketing tools.
Teachers
can use Google forms to create a customized worksheet with automatic grading
for classroom assessment.
Google
Forms can also be used as email subscriber tool, event registration, product
sales etc. You can see that schools and other business brands can benefit
maximally with Google Forms.
#4. Youtube
Youtube is part of the bargain for running with Google. Here, a teacher
as well a school can monetize their channels, while reaching out to their
world.
Youtube
is a powerful marketing tool for schools. Create your videos (classroom
engagement, promotional, practical guide, professional development videos) and
upload to your Youtube channels. Promote your videos and build a huge
subscriber base.
One
more thing- schools can monetize their contents.
#5. Google sheet
This is an equivalent of the more popular MS Excel. Google sheet has a
lot of powerful functionalities that can aid schools’ database compilation.
One
great benefit of choosing Google Sheet over other spreadsheet packages is the
cloud storage offer you gain for using Google sheet- every work done is
automatically and permanently saved in the clouds, and can be accessed from any
device at any time.
#6. Google docs
Google doc is a word processing tool just like MS Word.
For
teachers, it is utilized as a lesson plan tool with its ready-made templates.
#7. Google slide
Google slide is a presentation tool that can be employed by schools for
multiple benefits.
Apart
from its primary use as a presentation tool, teachers can use this simple tool
to create saleable e-book and special reports. The work done here is saved in
the cloud automatically.
#8. Google Hangout
This is a chatting tool that offer such huge interaction between teacher
and students.
With
Google Hangout, teachers can easily engage their students within and off the
classroom for a rich academic interactions.
Besides,
schools can schedule a webinar-like meeting with management and staff, clients
and other stakeholders, using Google Hangout.
#9. Google Classroom
Google Classroom is a complete e-learning
package for schools with low budget.
Google Classroom works seamlessly with other
Google tools to provide a thrilling e-learning experience for schools.
Mastering
these tools remains a major boost for schools pursuing an e-learning
experience. Besides, 21st century educators need to be conversant
with these basic digital tools if they must remain relevant in this century.
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