These are slides to support Jason Neiffer's SVSLA GOOGLE FOO for Online Educators.

1. Curriculum Director, Montana Digital Academy
http://www.montanadigitalacademy.org
http://www.neiffer.com
Blogging at: http://www.techsavvyteacher.com
Tweeting at: @techsavvyteach

2. Paperless Handouts
http://www.workshophandouts.com/svsla11googlefoo
(svsla11googlefoo is case sensitive)

3. • Curriculum Director @
Montana Digital Academy
• High School Teacher
• Professional Development Guy
• Doctoral Student @
the University of Montana
• Blogging:
http://www.techsavvyteacher.com
• Shameless Self-Promotion:
http://www.neiffer.com
• Tweeting: @techsavvyteach

4. Expose... Explore…
today later

5. • Less is more; using a single set of integrated
tools over a diverse set of tools
• Adopt the Foo one step at a time; don’t adopt
everything at once!
• Adopt tools with a purpose, not a tool for
tool’s sake
• Pick one tool today to try; then come back to
the presentation later and try more!

7. Tool Dossier
Google Search
• Google’s core project… and the inspiration
for the popular culture lexicon: “I just
Googled you…”
• Market’s dominate search engine
• The vast majority is simple search
without using the most powerful aspects of
the search engine

8. Google Search

12. Google Image Search

15. Google Custom Search

22. Tool Dossier
Gmail
• Free
• First email service to provide massive
storage; over 7gb of space for each
account today
• Even better as part of the Google Apps
for your domain
• You can use Gmail as an email client for
other email addresses (link in presentation
notes)

23. Typical Gmail Inbox

24. Advanced: Keyboard Shortcuts

25. Management Strategy: Archive

26. Management Strategy: Labeling Email

28. Gmail Labs

30. Canned Responses

32. Priority Inbox

34. Tool Dossier
Google Documents
• Free
• Built around collaboration and public sharing
• New versions rolling out this fall; even
more functional
• For online teachers: Google Documents is a
wonderful content repository!

37. Document Commenting

42. Always Updated Content Repository

43. Google Spreadsheet

44. Google Presentations

47. Google Forms

49. Google Forms for Assessment

52. Flubaroo

54. Tool Dossier
Google Talk
• Text Chat
• Free Video and Voice Chat
• Free Phone Calls through 2011 (maybe
longer?)
• Desktop Apps
• Mobile Apps

55. Google Talk in Gmail

56. Google Talk App
(Windows only; Mac users use iChat)

57. Google Chat in iPhone

58. Google Chat Badge

60. Google Talk Audio and Video

62. Tool Dossier
Google Voice
• Free service
• Local numbers available across the United
State (although not necessarily in your local
prefix)
• Forward to one or more numbers
• Voicemails sent to email
• Voicemail transcription
• Can be used with some call carriers for
free long distance calling (see presentation
notes)

63. Google Voice Inbox

64. Google Voice App on iPhone

65. Google Talk Badge

68. Tool Dossier
Google Content
• Developed by Google or Google certified
teachers
• Go directly to the source

69. Google Search Curriculum

72. Google Search Posters

73. Google Good to Know

75. Google Plus

79. Curriculum Director, Montana Digital Academy
http://www.montanadigitalacademy.org
http://www.neiffer.com
Blogging at: http://www.techsavvyteacher.com
Tweeting at: @techsavvyteach