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Google Docs (presentation and spreadsheet) Courtney RodgersGoogle Docs PowerPoint
What is it?Google Docs is an online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation builder. Users can create new documents, spreadsheets or presentations or they can upload those already created. These can be organized and stored online - you have access whenever you are at a computer with an internet connection. You can invite others to either view or edit your creations. You can chat while multiple people edit a spreadsheet, see who makes changes on documents when and view presentations together - all in real time. All documents, spreadsheets and presentations can be published to your blog or to the web; you have total control on who can view your published items.
How do you access and use it?This is a quick video from The commoncraft Show by Lee and Sachi LeFever, Google Docs in Plain English. It gives a great overview of accessing and using Google Docs.
Google offers much information on its tools to help users - blogs, help centers, etc. There is a Google Docs tour that also serves as a good introduction.
How is it being used?
Educators are using Google Docs for partner and group work. Students aren't limited to just class or school day times for working together on the assignment. Docs automatically saves and is available on any computer with Internet access, which eliminates many of the tried and true student excuses. Esther Wojcicki from Palo Alto High School created the Google Teacher Academy presentation Docs an Spreadsheets in the Classroom.
Why is it important?When thinking about the 21st century student and the skills they need to be prepared, Google Docs is a tool that is aligned. The 21st century student likes to be involoved with the learning; Docs is a perfect upgrade to working on the traditional research paper. The use of Docs addresses many of the 21st century skills we've discussed as being necessary for today's student to learn - communication, self-management, decision-making and collaboration.
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Resources/Linkshttp://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/google_docs/ http://googledocs.blogspot.com/ http://documents.google.com/support/?hl=en
Google Custom Search - Miguel Molina
What is it?Google’s masterminds have developed Custom Search and released it to the masters of the universe (us) to create our very own search engine. This tool allows any person, from any education background, to build a very powerful search engine on top of Google. Through it, the masters of the Universe are given the choice to include or exclude sites, and add labels and ranks by utilizing “URL Patterns” as the engine of our new toy.
How is it accessed and used?To begin using CSE (Custom Search Engine), four major steps need to be followed:
• You must have a Google Account. • All contributors (those you invite to participate) must have a Google account. • To avoid displaying ads, you must certify that you are one of these: a nonprofit, university or educational institution, or a government agency.
How is it being used?Through CSE, educators can search for teaching material that has been published on the web by faculty for CS Departments around the world. The Texas Woman’s University is also currently using Google CSE on their main web site for visitors to be able to search important documentation on their own domain. Because this process excludes any other university, it is easy for the searcher to evaluate the content. In addition, educators in the k-12th grades have the ability to give students access to only child-safe sites that have been pre-selected Why is it important?This tool can be used to create specific search engines to allow our students and faculty to find valuable information in the specified web sites. As a result, problems with exposure of undesirable content can be minimized without having to take away all the resources needed to complete the specific academic tasks. The advantage of this tool resides in it ablity to avoid the junk on the websites through the pre-selection of child-safe sites within the content areas. This permits students to search different topics, even those that are controversial in nature, but gives teachers and school districts the peace of mind of having kids safely search the web. In addition, by pre-selecting the sites to be searched in the pertinent subjects, students receive highly relevant results creating an environment of efficiency and safety. Another way that educators are using this tool is to search for lesson plans from around the world by pre-selecting important databases on their subject areas. This tool also helps those teachers that are really interested in creating meaningful and interactive lessons for their students. They can use this tool to discover how people from different countries teach the same content using various strategies to promote critical thinking and researching skills.
Resources/Linkshttp://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/ http://www.google.com/coop/manage/cse/create/1 Google Earth Fabian S.Google Earth
What is it? Google Earth is one of the many aspects Google Search engine has to offer. This is a powerful tool that allows users to view maps, which contain all kinds of terrains on 3D format.
What is the tool about? This is a free tool offered by the Google Company which allows the viewing of most of the world’s locations as if you were there.
How do you access and use it?To access this product one must log into Google at http://earth.google.com/ To get it start it, one must first agree to all their terms and download this software. Once the software is downloaded it is self explanatory as one can easily go by the powerful shortcuts it offers.
How is it being used?This product is being used by universities, school districts, personal usage, news channels, and government facilities. Currently NASA is working with Google to show earth’s surfaces. NASA has a partnership with companies such as Google to share its date with the public.
What are educators using this tool for?Educators are using this tool to explain some of earth’s natural land forms and temperatures. Everyday educators are looking for ways to make students be interested in school in general. By having powerful tools such as Google Earth one can sure get there.
Why is it important?It is important to have powerful tools such as Google Earth to facilitate our classrooms experiences. Every day I am looking for ways to make my teachings fun and educational. Just the other day I found thanks to Google Earth that I was able to get into buildings. While I may never visit Europe at least I was able to visit one of its most famous buildings thanks to this tool. One must also remember that this is a free tool that is offered to all teachers. This by itself is what makes it such a powerful tool.
What is the potential impact on effective instruction?Google Earth can potentially help us explain aspects such as earth’s layers, different elevations, and even find rare planes such as old and retired planes.
Social Studies2-3 examples of how it can be used in elementary or secondary.
Google Earth can be used in an elementary Social Studies classroom by having students search for key words such as Maya. Did you know there is a city named Maya, Arcenes, in France? Well, thanks to Google Earth my elementary students know this. Another way it can be used is to explain how certain communities live inside mountains and others in large metropolitan cities. Students can view the actual mountain surfaces as well as the cities’ large buildings.
Mathematics2-3 examples of how it can be used in elementary or secondary.
Google earth can be used every day in an elementary classroom to show students how easily their home can be seen from the sky. Students need to realize that there is more than what they can latterly see. Another way Google Earth can be used in an elementary classroom is when explaining to student natural land forms. Google Earth is great at finding earth’s land forms and showing 3D aspects of such land forms. We must remember that many students will never be able to visit locations that many times are covered in their books but at least thanks to Google Earth they have a better representation of such locations.
Google Earth for secondary classrooms can start with Language Arts. Students in an English course could be assigned to create a journal of which cities they would like to visit. By allowing students to use Google Earth students will be able to visit such cities from their own desks and write about what they can see and what would be the difference if they were there. Another way secondary can use Google Earth is in Geography course. It is never easy to explain to students how high a cliff is, but Google Earth can make that even more possible.
Language Arts2-3 examples of how it can be used in elementary or secondary.
Students in Language Arts can have a buddy from another city that they would need to search and find what rivers are in that area. Students can also look for local ranches and find out if they can find animals in such places.
Students in the secondary can find as many of their spelling words for that week on this powerful search engine. Students can also search for how some of the California fires have affected that area and write a report about it.
Science2-3 examples of how it can be used in elementary or secondary.
Elementary students can look at the different borders that separate continents. Students can even look at the borders of their state and even their own community. Students in our community can see how our border compares to other borders.
Students in the middle school can look for cities to find out which have the highest active volcanoes. Students can also look for scenes of dramatic destructions such as when Catrina hit the shores of Louisiana.
Resources/Links
Google Maps Priscilla GarciaPlease download my Power Point
http://komodo.utsystem.edu/med/pgarcia1/googlemaps.ppt
Google Reader - by Becky LandaWhat is it?Google Reader is noted as being a personalized inbox that captures all of your favorite Websites in a single location. The tool “manages your reading” by providing constant updates on sites and blogs that you regularly access. The tool also allows you to share your favorite Websites with others. Google Reader can be accessed on your computer and mobile phone as long as you have Internet connectivity. How do you access and use it?To begin using Google Reader do the following: 1. On your URL, type www.google.com 2. Click on the word MORE to pull down a menu, select Reader
3. Establish a username and password to login 4. Once in the site, there is a tutorial, but I suggest you click on the next two links that offer a clearer understanding of how to use the tool. In order to best understand Google Reader you first have to know about RSS, considered the new information pipeline. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS allows users to subscribe to online content such as favorite Websites or blogs. The premise is that rather than you clicking on each Website for sports or news, you simply go to Google Reader and all of the updated sites are there ready for you to read.
What is RSS and what does it have to do with Google Reader?
First Tutorial (TeacherTube Video) RSS and Google Reader Second Tutorial (TeacherTube Vidoe) How to Use Google Reader
How is it being used?Educators are using this tool for online conferencing, classroom blogs, to link students to movies, posting favorite Websites, staff development, directing students or teachers to specific podcasts, and as part of teacher forums/chats. Why is it important?How does it relate to our Top 10 Lists? What is the potential impact on effective instruction?
One of the top concerns we shared as a group was that educators have increasing demands on their time and are reluctant to try new concepts that they perceive will further erode their time management. Google Reader addresses this concern in that it can provide a comprehensive way in which to place only pertinent sites on a single Website that is automatically updated. Because Google Reader can reside on an existing blog, it offers a way of maintaining ongoing communication and collaboration with students that builds efficiency and focused learning in the classroom setting, thereby minimizing any wasted time. Social Studies§ In secondary or elementary, Curriculum and Instruction can create a Google Reader for each content area to be used by teachers for professional development. The Websites can include such things as differentiated learning, writing in the content areas, and specific content sites. § In the classroom, in secondary, teachers are required to relate past experiences to current day. With a collection of specific Websites that are constantly updated and embedded blogs, teachers can use these tools with students to maintain an interactive and reflective dialogue and journal about historical events and connections to current events. Mathematics§ Can be used post problem solving sites and having students access the sites to find solutions and share their work through postings and blogs. § Can be used as a campus resource to examine new math standards or the deconstruction of standards and best practices as interpreted by teachers and the state. It can include finding lesson plans that can be modified to address the next Language Arts§ Use Google Reader to teach students about all the different types of literacy: information, technical, academic, mathematical, etc. Post specific sites so that students can reflect on the literacy on a daily basis based on assigned readings. § Use Google Reader with blogs to reflect on new forms of communication through writing on the Web. Science§ Use Google Reader to have students videotape experiments and share to the online community using the tool. Include a means for students to receive feedback on the video and accompanying lab report. § Use the tool to create a means for getting the most up-to-date scientific research findings. Use to allow students to become familiar with these Websites and use in research practices.
Resources/Links
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/k12.chat.teacher/feeds
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/web20/
Google Picasa Rogelio "Roy" Campa
What is it?
Picasa is software that allows you to share you photos by: e-mail, print,on the web, order prints, place them on blogs, create a collage, and export them. You can also edit and add effects to your photos. Picasa will help you locate and find all your photos on your computer.
How do you access and use it?
How is it being used?
Educators use picasa to organize student photos and make photo CD’s for their students. They also create web albums so that their students can access the photos from home. They have students take lesson-related photos and have the students post them to the web. Educators are also having students add effects, edit and crop their photo and create oral presentations.
Why is it important?
Picasa is an important tool to use because today’s students must learn skills for the 21st century. “Student must learn personal skills such as: communication, respect for others, responsibility, resolving problems, working in teams, leadership, self-management, and decision making”(Landa FQ 8). With picasa students will learn to communicate through online collaboration. They will learn self-management because they will have to use the software to edit, crop and add effects that are appropriate for the content matter; which in turn will teach them responsibility and decision making skills.
Social Studies1. Picasa can be used in to create slide shows for Social Studies by creating time lines with photos of different presidential memorials gather by students on line or personal photos; such as: George Washington Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, J. Edgar Hoover Memorial… by editing, cropping and adding effects. 2. Picasa can be used in Social Studies by creating a collage of American War; such as: The American Revolution, The Civil War, World War I… by editing, cropping and adding effects. 3. Picasa can be used to create a historical photo album by taking pictures of themselves in historical costumes and settings.
Mathematics1. Picasa can be used in mathematics by taking lesson-related pictures of buildings, roads, and cars to compare to algebraic terminology so that the student can become familiar with different terms. They will edit, crop, and add effects to each picture to emphasize each term.
2. Students will use picasa to create a collage of photos taken by them that illustrate different algebraic formulas, such as: the Pythagorean Theorem, E = mc2, etc…
Language Arts1. In Language Arts create a photo story using photos edited, cropped, and enhanced with picasa, which according to Microsoft, Photo Story III will "make show-and-tell cool again".
2. Students will create a photo story about literature books they read; Macbeth, A Mid summers dream, and Hamlet. They will translate scenes into modern day life. They will take pictures of related material. In picasa they will create folders and add enhancements to each photo and create a photo story with narration.
Science1. The student will photograph different land surfaces and skylines to determine if objects are 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional they will edit, crop, and add effects in Picasa and post them to the web to share and collaborate with other students.
2. Picasa in Science can be used to illustrate a collage of the periodic table by using power point to create jpg or gif files of each element on the periodic table.
Resources/Linkshttp://www.google.com/educators/p_picasa.html http://picasained.wikispaces.com http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/index.html http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/howto/digitalphoto_tips/ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx http://cyberscorpion.pbwiki.com/Foundation+Questions
Google SketchUp 6 Carmen Garcia
Please download the Poer Point: http://komodo.utsystem.edu/med/cgarcia/GoogleSketchUp.ppt
Google Timeline Bill YoungWhat is it?
Timeline sorts search hits by dates mentioned on the web page. For example if students were looking for information about Thomas Jefferson, which is an example used by Google, they would set the parameters for a time frame broader than they would expect (1700 to 1840), then narrow the date down by the hits shown on the time line. Hits appear as a bar graph. The higher the bar, the more hits for the date indicated. Hits are sorted by date. They may zoom in to some degree by selecting a date on the time line, but there are limits.
How do you access and use it?Open this Power Point presentation to see how to use Timeline.
How is it being used?Timeline is being used to narrow down searches that can be date related. If students know the date or approximate dates that an event occured, they may find more information quicker with less "noise".
Why is it important?Time line gives students a framework to relate information. This is an important learning tool in deductive reasoning. By relating events to time they can see cause and effect more clearly as well as the intensity of reporting as it relates to the bars on the time line. That helps students focus in on relevant information or to perhaps explore the fringes of an event. (Why is there a hit out here seemingly by iteself?)
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Google Labs are a series of pilot projects developed by Google to test new services. The labs are placed in the internet for users to utilize, and are asked to provide feedback before releasing them as final services. How do you access and use it? How do you access and use it? All you have to do is log on to http://labs.google.com, and you will be presented with a list of products that you can use. You choose the ones to try and download them to your computer. Do not forget to provide feedback!
Labs.google.com, Google's technology playground. Google News Alerts
How is it being used? Depending on user needs, there is an array of different services.
One of the most amazing products I have seen is the Google Accessible search for the vissually impaired, which can help physically challenged population and students as well. Being physically impaired does not mean you have to be disconnected from the world; at least Google seems to believe. The Page Creator which is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. It makes it easy for teachers intimidated by technology to create WebPages. Their students can visit for class information, assignment and tutorials. Why is it important? How does it relate to our Top 10 Lists?
Google labs also includes “graduated labs”, these are services that have graduated from just try out services to full blown Google services. Gmail and Google Earth started as try out labs. Another example is Google's web-based feed reader can assist teachers to be more organized by maintaining track of preferred web sites. Also, another graduated lab is the Google Reader, which is a tool useful for taking notes on line as well as writing professional notes for example letter to parents, permission forms, or discipline records.
What is the potential impact on effective instruction?
Universities, colleges, and schools around the globe are performing researches, collecting data, analyzing and reflecting. They are implementing 21st century skills such as critical and creative thinking. Google labs are a series of tools just for specific information and tasks allowing more a direct and effective search. Massive amounts of information is floating around in the internet and Google created a more efficient and useful tools for users (including teachers and students) where data and services can be found within seconds with the touch of a few buttons. Google Labs are new innovative techniques to for allocating information, data and services. Social Studies Social studies teachers can focus on the massive impact of the internet with social structures of the 21st century and the evolution of social relations throughout the internet. As part of the class the teacher can use Google Group for sharing and posting information. You can use this tool to help the teacher create forums and class discussions allowing your student to participate in open and closed class discussion. Google Trends can be used for research purposes for social studies. It lists all the world wide trends happening. It includes: cloths, food, music and many other social spectrums, very useful for social studies class. Mathematics For mathematics, Google Document it’s a perfect example of a graduated lab and it allows the use of spreadsheets for teachers and students to organize data and create charts and graphs. Google Mars can be helpful in science and math. In math, the teacher can use this tool to teach students about metrical conversions and elevations. Language Arts Language art teachers and students can use the Google Scholar allows a search throughout abstracts, articles and scholarly literatures. Google Glossary can help teachers and students find definitions, phrases and acronyms for all reports and research paper needs. Science Google has a new handy tool called Google Suggest, all you have to do is type the question and it will direct you to all the websites that are related to the particular “how to do” subject. The Google suggest is very handy for your entire “how to do” questions, especially handy for the “how to do” experiments for science. Google Mars can help the teacher and students explore the Martian terrain. It has different links for specific information. The teacher and students can explore the regions, terrain, mountains, canyons, dunes, plains, ridges and crates. It is incredible opportunity to teach the students about other planets as wells.
Resources/Links http://labs.google.com/
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