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June 29, 2009 : Google Tools for Educators

End of AM Session LISD Professional Development Evaluation Link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229CQPZ2M6M

Please complete evaluation at the end of this morning session and sign out on the attendance sheet.  Thanks for attending!

 

Assignment: Getting Started  - Read and Respond:

Searching in Google - Find 3 or more search tips you may not have known about by skimming through any of the presentations linked below from Patrick Crispen - "Googlenaut Extraordinaire." 

Click on one to get started - scroll down through 10-15 slides to see what you can learn. 

 

Now click on the Google Docs site below to post your findings to share with the group. You may see others editing at the same time. For the presentation, Insert a new slide to present your findings.

Presentation - http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ddx3fq49_28hb7m35ht&hl=en

Spreadsheet - http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rKAQgXC5chIfkByCcLTsgqA

 

If you are interested in learning more Google search tips, see additional tips in section at the end of this page.  Happy Googling! 

 

Today's workshop presentation, also available at: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ddx3fq49_28hb7m35ht

 

 

Google Tools You Must Try

 Google is a multi-purpose tool that just keeps getting more innovative! (Note – If a tool shown is not on Google’s home page, the URL that links the fastest has been included.)

NEWEST TOOL: Google Presentations - slideshows online, share, collaborate, publish - who needs PowerPoint?  View my example at http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddx3fq49_2dkhq2q&fs=true

Google Docs - create and share collaboratively by inviting other to your documents, spreadsheets or presentations.  New: Also create interactive Forms!  This wiki has another page with more Google Docs Resources.

iGoogle for the Classroom - setting your own home page - share gadgets with your students who have iGoogle pages.

Google Earth -  combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips -Fly from one location on the globe to another, insert Placemarks with text, graphics, audio, video, and hyperlinks to relevant integrated learning content, measure distances with ~Tools>Measure, visualize bird's eye view as well as viewing terrain, landmarks, and more - Download FREE at http://earth.google.com  Note: See http://googlelittrips.org

 

 

 

Google Calendar

Google Mail

Google Gadgets for your webpage, wiki, Moodle course, blog, Facebook, etc.

Blogspot (formerly Blogger)

 

 

More Fun Things from Google Labs 

Weather - enter keyword search “weather:49221” or “weather:Hudson,MI” (no spaces)

 

Dictionary – brings in all web definitions for all variations of the word – enter keyword search “define:spring” (no spaces)

 

Google Video – check out video content that might be useful in your classroom! (Filtered through school site – must download first with Google Video Viewer application)

 

Math – does basic AND complex equations with its calculators – simply enter equation in search box: 27+(3/pi) – Try it!

 

Measures Conversion (Any and All!) – “miles in inches” “cups in teaspoon” 17 miles in kilometers, 3 teaspoons in Tablespoons, 1 dollar in yen (updated every day), 1 light year in knots, 1 mile in furlongs, 1 mile in smoots (define:smoots)

 

Currency Conversion - $1.00 in yen; $20 in lire;

 

Recipes: type in “recipes:chicken” “recipes:Chinese” “recipes:Thai” “recipes:steak”

Now you just need to put the computer in your kitchen!

 

 News http://news.google.com Current articles updated throughout the day

 

The niftiest feature of Google News is the archive of newspaper and magazine articles

 

Maps http://maps.google.com Beyond Google Earth, there are many ways to use the maps feature - the newest add-on is a display of traffic on major freeways in real time within a one minute update. (i.e. “Manhattan Hotels” – New Trial Feature click “Call” and enter your phone number – Google makes the call to the business and then calls your number to connect you, whereas if YOU made the call it would put you on the business’s CALL list! Google even pays the long distance fee! No more messing with “Do Not Call” lists!)

 

Google Maps Mobile - Google for modern cell phones and PDA’s with mobile web browsers (not on Treo) - http://google.com/gmm

 

Google to Go http://www.google.com/mobile

 

Movies http://www.google.com/movies

 

Music Trends http://www.google.com/trends/music What people are listening to real time by genre and by country. (No audio links…just info on the groups)

- (i.e. click on artist in list, such as “Green Day” – see more music results for that artist)

 

Books http://books.google.com Many newer titles are a “limited preview” but some full text. Most of the older books have full text.

 

Scholar http://scholar.google.com Huge collection of articles – many abstracts; some link to our databases

 

Who Links to You?Google Help Center - http://www.google.com/support/ Google Web Search Features

  • link:siteURL - Shows you pages that point to that URL (i.e. link:www.lisd.us will show you pages that point to LISD's home page. YOu cannot combine a link: search with a regular keyword search.

 

 

 

 

**Extras - labs.google.com

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Accounts (Free but you must have an email account and must sign up on Google home page) Notebook (access after you setup an account – must download extension to your computer) When you paste in information from a web page, all the necessary MLA information is automatically included except the date and time…and that is in the works.

Language Tools - Translate words, text, web pages; find pages in languages

Accessibility helps – Brings up only top 10 hits; NEVER pornography SearchMash.com This is Google’s “secret” testing site…you can make suggestions.

Google Alerts – http://www.google.com/alerts - receive news and search results via email – sign up for service

Google Calendar - http://calendar.google.com 

GMail - http://mail.google.com web mail with lots of space, free storage, chat option, and mobile access - FREE

Blogger - https://www.blogger.com/start - set up a free blog site where you can post thoughts, interact with people, publish, get feedback, post photos, and track other blogs through blogspot's RSS feed aggregator

Google Personalized

Google Picasa - http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=EN

Google Sets – automatically create a large or small set of items form a few examples

http://labs.google.com/sets

 

Google Creator or Googlepages is no longer available to new users.  Google now has "Sites" for creating web pages in a wiki type environment.  Very easy to use for linking, creating content, for student collaboration, interactive stories, and many, many more web-based projects.

 

Googlepages (web creator) - Examples from 2006:

 

 

 

 

 

Google Search Tips

 

  1. Google searches keyword entries as a phrase
  2. X +Y+Z formula where X = keyword is in link, Y = adjacency (forced phrase where words are adjacent rather than anywhere in the document), and Z = keywords (applied relationship either by web site or human reviewer)
  3. Order matters with X, Y, Z – searches first by phrases, then by adjacency, then by keyword weight
  4. You only see the first 1000 hits, no matter how many are indicated
  5. First ten are most relevant
  6. Page rank is important – choose the top 1-2 and then renew your search, don’t go past first 10 hits
  7. How many others link to it? This enters into the “popularity” formula for page rank (Get more people to link to it if you want to be at the top of the list!)
  8. Be specific!
  9. Most experienced searchers search for 4-5 words on average, using phrases
  10. Quotes are no longer needed in google – it searches for phrases automatically
  11. - is key! Use this to exclude certain words. Use + to require a keyword.
  12. Combine symbols as often as possible (“quotes” + and - )
  13. Use “and” “or”
  14. Stemming – pirate* (pirates, pirated, pirating) (does not require * to stem)
  15. Wildcards*
  16. Common Stopwords: ‘the” “an” “and” - Google searches for ALL words entered by default
  17. Use Advanced Search feature when possible
  18. Use “site” search: site: domain name (i.e. challenger +site:nasagov )
  19. Use inurl:keyword (i.e. +inurl:challenger +moon –”john young” +site:nasa.gov)
  20. Other types of queries:

filetype: (i.e. .doc, .ppt, .pdf)

intitle: (i.e. intitle:globalization)

site: (i.e. illuminations.com)

 

 

 

(modified from Mary Bullard’s original handout with shared notes on search tips from Patrick Crispen’s 2007 MACUL presentations - For more Google tips & tricks go to Patrick Crispen’s site at http://netsquirrel.com )''

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Kevin Clark's REMC 11 Google Earth Goodness Links at: http://remc11.pbwiki.com/Google%20Earth%20Goodness

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