The Technology in Action subcommittee of the Center Technology Committee surveyed Center personnel to collect information on the use of Google Applications for work and personal reasons.

1. Google Survey of CDL The Technology in Action subcommittee of the Center Technology Committee surveyed Center personnel to collect information on the use of Google Applications for work and personal reasons.

2. Purpose: to assess which Google applications garner the most interest and use assess current use of collaborative work spaces for student collaborative work For professional development or office management tasks to collect ideas for future use so as to evaluate what support maybe needed in the future

3. General Use: Of the 198 respondents 26% are currently using Google Apps for work-related reasons, whereas 87% are using Google Apps for personal activities. 60% have Gmail that is used for both personal and professional reasons.

4. Work-related use: with students in learning activities and as a tool for course development The primary work-related tools Google Documents (GoogleDocs) Google Maps Google Calendar Google Scholar, Google Images, and Google Earth.

5. Personal use: Why did we survey this - to gauge comfort with the tools and to compare usage in a less restrictive environment. more prolific with the use of Google Apps for personal use ( 90% of respondents use GoogleApps in their personal space) Same tool preferences as work-related use: Most popular: Google Documents (GoogleDocs) Google Maps Next most popular: Google Calendar Google Scholar, Google Images, and Google Earth.

6. Future visions: The majority are interested in using these tools for course development, with the focus being for student learning activities. One-third of respondents envision using shared spreadsheets to track work one-quarter envision using the tools for administering courses. 32% have ideas for using Google Apps in future

7. Future ideas: Google spreadsheet to replace grade book. GoogleDocs for cross cultural team assignments International college students working with CDL/IP simultaneous editing and interaction in real time joint writing with students/instructor, students see markup on their paper, work together with instructor on documents team learning activity collecting student opinions tracking exploring geography through Google earth in addition to weblog activities students need to search widely for info and Google searching is one way use Google maps in enabling student work in community organizing Google Document for better collaborative writing (better than Elluminate) Teach students about the services Google has available for non-0profits as they initiate their projects Small group work

8. To review a detailed report and view the survey results go to: http://tinyurl.com/google4cdl