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Google Tools by Tammy Worcester

http://www.tammyworcester.com/TWHandouts/New_Handouts/Entries/2011/2/24_ICE_2011.html

1 mile in meters (The word IN is the key to getting a conversion.) Define: (Must have define: add colon and space.) use is as a dictionary

Advanced search: Search for Abe Lincoln: use Advanced Search and Filter by **reading level**

On left side filter a search in many ways Click on **Wonder Wheel** – this gives branched out topics from the original

Oil Spill – click on **Timeline** You can see the quatity of information available at that time about that subject. Then you can click into that date/year so find info from that time: 1987 Exon Valdez


 * Realtime** : Twitter comments come up. Choose a current event and find great resources of a special event you cannot attend

Project idea: Freedom blog: take a picture over the weekend that represents freedom and send it to the blog
 * Blogger** is part of Google. New additions to the Blog tool. Name your blog and set the address up URL. Picture window is a great background. Only I will see the New Post tab. Can add pictures, movies, text etc. Easy way to add photos go to Settings of blog – go to **email** and Posting Options and set up a secret email posting address. If students are posting don’t have it post immediately. Then you send photos or text from your phone to the blog. Each photo becomes a new post. If Blogger is blocked somewhere just email posts in.

Can add pages to the blog, examples, lesson plans, blog rules, These additional pages come up as tabs at the top. You can have up to ten tabs or ten pages in the blog.

When you are logged into Google you can create custom maps. You can add place marks with title and description with links, and choose any type of placemark. Once the map is saved in the top right corner you can get a link to the map or get the HTML embed code. Go back to blog, view the HTML, then paste in the embed code. Once the map is in the blog people can get directions, see the placemarks, etc. You can continue to edit the map and it will be updated at the blog when the page is refreshed. Flat Stanley project, where students have been over a break,
 * Google Maps**

Lesson Plan Page in Blog Create a page for lesson plans on the blog, then create a spreadsheet with lessons laid out on it. Then create a duplicate of the year long lesson plans, with just one week, the weekl you are on. Go to Publish options, for that sheet and get the HTML for only the sheet you want to publish.


 * Publish Options for Google Docs**

You can set it up so that others can edit a document without having to sign in or even have an account.

**edu.googleapps.com Source of lessons** **Follow up** followmolly.com Check under Edina Tech Resources for Ms.Schroeders’s page to see all of the samples that she has included on her web page. Google Sites iGoogle Gadgets in Spreadsheet

Apply to Google Educator on Student learning or classroom innovation. You have to provide your own transportation to the location of the academy. Use this theme in the video: **When students step into the doors of school they should not be stepping back in time. They should be stepping into the future.** You can create a class Google account. That way students who aren’t old enough to have their own account can share this. Google docs are always in the cloud. You don’t have to “carry” things with you. You can create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and forms. Spreadsheets and presentations allow users to have a “chat” on the side under “View Together”. Documents are also collaborative. Multiple people can work on the same document. Great for students in group projects. You can see the revision history. Students can all get to the document at any time. It isn’t saved in soemone’s account who isn’t there.

Google Sites: Webpage wiki type tool

You can insert comments in student documents. You can also add footnotes that appear on the side of the screen.

Documents can be organized into folders.

Forms: Collect information, survey, This creates a graph or table of information. This can be shared as well. Use the button on the top left to add questions. Click the button next to this to choose a theme.

All documents can be turned into webpages. Each one gets a unique URL.

Templates: Categories, Student and Teacher templates are being built right now by Google teachers, Google Teachers: great support for each other. Questions

Graphing with Google Docs: This lesson is on the Google site


 * 1) Create a Google Form to collect the information: Class info sample: how many sibs, how many minutes to get to school? How many pets do you have? How many letters in your first name?
 * 2) Teacher accesses the info in a spreadsheet. Then go to Form: Show Summary. This turns info into a graph. Then you can analyze the information in the graph. Range, minimum, maximum,

Google Spreadsheet had Gadgets. You can create a world cloud, a crossword puzzle,

Google Sites Part of Google Apps for education

Can be used for portfolios, teacher websites, etc.

Can embed calendar, teacher newsletter in Google Docs. Photos: Access to Google photo storage: Picasa Create lists of links for your students Homework Updates: This is a different type of page. It is an Announcements page that is like a blog. You can use a gadget to put this on the front page of your site so users can see the newest homework. You can embed videos to play right at your site. Can attach files Can use spreadsheet to allow people to sign up on a Google site.