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We Google-ified the Heck out of Yesterday's Department Meeting

The biology department google-ifed the heck out of our department meeting yesterday.  We used Google Meet for our virtual meeting, which all seven members attended.  Everyone received a calendar invite (with conferencing) to which we attached both an agenda for the meeting and another google doc to consider.  Within the agenda, we linked to four google docs and a google sheet that had been shared with department faculty.  I even protected the google sheet before sharing so no one inadvertently changed it, although everyone had commenting privileges.  I'd post a link here, but I'm not quite sure who has viewing privileges.  If it's the whole internet, as I suspect, I'd rather not link our business to the whole world.

We used no paper, and the meeting was pretty collaborative.  I feel like a proud google student.  

Not bad for faculty on a Wednesday in July.

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  1. Dana H.July 9, 2020 at 12:30 PM

    I love the fact that "google-ifed" was used in the first sentence. Great work for a Wednesday in July!

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  2. SMBJuly 9, 2020 at 1:10 PM

    I too enjoyed seeing "Google-fied." This blog currently is public, but it could be set to where only authors see it (ideal for a classroom). I wanted to make sure everyone could view it without accepting the invite to be an author.

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