Google Overview

Google for Educators Overview
Lucy Gray
Education Consultant
Mercy High School
http://www.lucygray.org
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Sunday, April 22, 12

Google’s mission is to organize
the world’s information and make
it universally accessible and
useful.
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A sense of fun
pervades
everything.
Risking taking and
pursuing’s one
passion are
encouraged.
Everything is in a
state of perpetual
beta. Continous
improvement is
important.
Creativity and
innovation are core
Thinking Outside the Box:
Google’s Working Environment
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http://goo.gl/GDTgG
The Search
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by John Battelle

Guiding Principles
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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.

Guiding Principles
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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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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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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Twenty Percent Time
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A Video Speaks 1000 Words
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http://youtu.be/VfDW7qAdFGk

Food for Thought....
How can we incorporate these ideas into our own
schools?
What can schools learn from innovative businesses
without becoming “corporate” ?
What are we doing differently as institutions?
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http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/index.html

Google Apps for Education
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Google Teacher Academy
Google Certiﬁed Teachers
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Google Science Fair
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Exploring Computational Thinking
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Chrome in Education
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Google Earth for Educators
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YouTube in Education
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YouTube for Schools
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So, where do you start?

More Even More
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Blogger
Books
Calendar
Custom Search
Docs
Earth
Gmail
Google+
Maps
News
Picasa
Picnik
Reader
Sites
Web Search
YouTube

Docs
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Create collaborative or private documents,
spreadsheets, forms, drawings, presentations
and fusion tables
Varying levels of permissions can be enabled
Revision history lets you track changes
Commenting and chat in Docs and
Spreadsheets
Work ofﬂine and upload later

My Docs Home Page
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Share Collections
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Templates

Lucy’s iPad Resources
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Global Awareness Survey
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Survey:
http://tinyurl.com/
21stcenturyskillssurvey
Results:
http://tinyurl.com/
21stcenturyskillssurveyresults

Global Awareness Results
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Scott Floyd/TCEA App List
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Escondido Union School District
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Liz Davis
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Flubaroo
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Presentations
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Presentations
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Mr. Stritchﬁeld
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Tom Barrett
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Docs Ideas
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Peer editing during
writers’ workshop
Lit circle group activities
Project management
Lab reports
ePortfolios
Shared lesson repositories
Curriculum guides
Unit Plans
Course evaluations
Shared notetaking at
meetings and conferences
Classroom walk throughs
Grant proposals
Sign up forms
Surveys
Book talks
Embedded presentations
in Google Sites

Sites
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Easy to use web site creation tool
Based on wiki technology
Varying levels of permissions can be enabled
including page level permissions
Revision history available
Create templates which can be shared
across Google Apps domains
Embed media created with Google tools and
other Web 2.0 applications

Sites Homepage
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Goochland Course Guide
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Cheryl Davis
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Dolores Gende
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Mr. Smith
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https://sites.google.com/a/boyslatin.org/smith/

Oregon Google Summit
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Wendy Gorton - CUE
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Sites Ideas
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Teacher web site
Professional
portfolios
Repository for
departmental
meeting notes
Accreditation
documentation
Event planning
Professional
development
resources
Assessment
Student portfolios
Digital science
notebooks
Book previews

Books
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Locate information related to millions of books
Find full texts that no longer fall under copyright
Preview books that are copyrighted
Search inside books
Locate books in online stores and libraries (WorldCat)
Purchase eBooks
Save book titles to your Google account through My Library

My Library
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A Sample Search
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http://goo.gl/pXOpK

Book Search Ideas
Post your required
readings for courses
in My Library on
bookshelves by topic
Post the link to a
speciﬁc bookshelf
within an assignment
or on a Google Site
Have students
search text for
keywords or to ﬁnd
quotes
Have older
students write
reviews
Embed the Google
Book Search listing
in a wiki or blog
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YouTube
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Create your own channel of
content for easy access to digital
media
Bookmark videos to playlists
Record right into YouTube
Edit and annotate video
Post video from your mobile
device
“Flip” your classroom using
educational video content

Lucy’s Channel

Customize your channel.

My Videos & Playlists

Video Editor

Add Videos Via a Mobile Device

Subscriptions

Share Videos Via Social Media

http://goo.gl/EGZIQ
Creative Commons Licensing

YouTube.edu
http://www.youtube.com/education

YouTube Teachers

YouTube Ideas
Organize material for
courses into playlists
Create screencasts
and videos for your
lectures
Subscribe to
channels to be
updated of new
content
Look at the
subscriptions of friends
for channels to
subscribe to
Have kids access
your playlists through
their mobile devices
Have students
design a collaborative
project (i.e Life in a
Day)
Email video to your
channel while on ﬁeld
trips
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Maps & Earth
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http://www.googlelittrips.org/

Google Earth and Maps Ideas
View and create Google Earth Lit Trips
Appoint a student to be the class
cartographer to document locations
encountered by your class
Enable layers in Google Earth to see
supplementary materials
Create buildings in Sketchup and import
them into Google Earth
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Custom Search
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Formerly known as Google Co-op
Roll your own search engine using pre-selected sites
Embed on your website and blog; integrate into Google Sites
Bookmark sites directly to list of web sites
Others can can contribute to the web sites search
Examples:
My Search Engines

Two of Lucy’s Search Engines
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http://goo.gl/LgUZEhttp://goo.gl/bHHBM

Custom Search Engine Ideas
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Create a search
engine for particular
units
Have a
departmental or
grade level engine
with members
contributing links
through Google
Marker
Have students
serve as curators by
creating their own
search engines for a
unit of study

Google+
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Google+ Circles
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Google+ Hangouts
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Inside Web Search
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A Google A Day
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Web Search Lessons
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Search Stories
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Search Story Creator
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SearchReSearch
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Strategies
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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
Remember that great help documentation is built into every Google tool
Encourage your school to sign up for Google Apps
Advocate and educate in your district about the power of these tools

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
CUE’s Google Workshop for Educators Resources
click on Events and view the agendas to ﬁnd great resources
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Lucy Gray
elemenous on Twitter, YouTube, Flickr,
etc.
lucy@lucygrayconsulting.com
http://lucygrayconsulting.com
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