1. Google for Educators Overview
All About Google Tools
Lucy Gray
University of Chicago
Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education
iSummit ’09
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4. Google’s Mission
“Organize the world’s information
and make it universally accessible
and useful.”
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5. Google Philosophy
Focus on the user and all else will follow.
It’s best to do one thing really, really well.
Fast is better than slow.
Democracy on the web works.
You don’t need to be at your desk to need an
answer.
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6. Google Philosophy
You can make money without doing evil.
There’s always more information out there.
The need for information crosses all borders.
You can be serious without a suit.
Great isn’t just good enough.
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7. Applied to Learning
Focus on the student and all else will follow
It’s best to teach a few things really, really
well.
Fast is better than slow.
Democracy in the classroom works.
You don’t need to be at school to need an
answer.
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8. Applied to Learning
You can teach without doing evil.
There’s always more information out there.
The need for information crosses all borders.
You can be serious without a suit.
Great just isn’t good enough.
Courtesy of Mark Wagner, CUE
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10. A video is worth 1000 words...
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11. Questions that come to mind...
How can we use these tools for our own professional
productivity?
How can we incorporate these into our own
schools?
What can schools learn from innovative businesses?
What are WE doing differently?
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12. Google For Educators Site
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
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13. Features
Recent Projects and News
The Infinite Thinking Machine
Teacher Community
Classroom Activities
Classroom Posters
Tools for Your Classroom
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14. Recent Projects and News
http://www.google.com/educators
Search Lessons
Design It: Shelter Competition
Study Tips
Ancient Rome 3D Curriculum
Competition
Doodle 4 Google
Project Spectrum
Archived Projects
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15. Infinite Thinking Machine
http://www.infinitethinking.org/
A weblog sponsored by WestEd and Google
“Internet T.V. shows” found also in iTunes and Google
Video
Concrete examples of innovation in education
7 contributors
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21. Tools for Your Classroom
http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html
Book Search
Earth
Maps
News
iGoogle
Web Search
Blogger
Calendar
Docs
Groups
Sites
Picasa
SketchUp
Google Apps Education Edition
Custom Search Engine
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24. Book Search
http://books.google.com/
“Search the full text of books to find
ones that interest you and learn
where to buy or borrow them.”
About Google Book Search
Add Google Book Search to your
site
Google Book Search - News &
Views
Explore Shakespeare with Google
My Library
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32. Earth
http://earth.google.com/
Satellite imagery of the Earth that includes layers of information
What’s New In Google Earth 5.0
Content partners include Discovery Education, National Geographic,
Wikipedia
Still pictures
Share files
Google Earth
Google Earth Community
Teacher Meme
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51. News
http://news.google.com/
Search thousands of publications
Use in conjunction with Google Reader via RSS feed
Archives
Custom news searches and personalized news page
Blog search
Comments by people in the
Quotes
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69. Docs & Spreadsheets
http://docs.google.com/
Documents, spreadsheets AND presentations
Create surveys with forms that dump data into spreadsheets
Import and export using a variety of file types
Share and publish files
Open files sent in Gmail directly in Docs & Spreadsheet
Use a wide variety of templates
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78. Custom Search Engine
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
Formerly known as Google Co-op
Roll your own search engine using pre-selected sites
Embed on your website and blog
Bookmark sites directly to list of web sites
Others can can contribute to the web sites search
Examples:
My Search Engines
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79. Google Apps - Education Edition
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html
Google Apps for Education
Customizable design
Features can be deactivated
Google Apps Community
Includes:
Gmail
Google Talk
Calendar
Docs
Sites
Video
Google Message Security
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81. Strategies for success
Get a Google Account (Gmail gives you a Google account OR you can make
a Google account with any email address)
Concentrate on one tool to start
Focus on your own productivity
Make generic student accounts for projects as an alternative to Google Apps
Visit the Google Apps Education Edition community site
Check out Google’s new Search lessons
Advocate and educate in your school or district about the power of these
tools!
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82. Recommended Resources
The Search by John Batelle
The Official Google Blog
Google in Education group within Diigo
Google Teacher Center newsletter
Google’s YouTube channel
Google Teacher Academy Resources
List of other schools using Google Apps
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83. Find me on ....
Gmail: elemenous@gmail.com
Blog: http://lucygray.org
Skype, AIM, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, del.icio.us,
Diigo: elemenous
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