1. Why ?
Google Apps for digital portfolios

2. Why ?
Google Apps for digital portfolios

3. Why ?
Google Apps for digital portfolios

4. Before We Get Started...
Talk amongst yourselves - backchannel!
Today’s Meet: http://www.todaysmeet.com/
SAU16Google
Or Tweet with the hashtag #sau16google

5. Today’s Google Agenda
Why Google?
Google vs. Mahara
Google as a tool for
digital portfolios and
beyond
Scope of Google
Set up a Gmail
account
Set up iGoogle

6. Why Google?
Offers a wide variety of FREE tools for collaboration
and creation
Tools are intuitive, connected, comprehensive, accessible,
and easy to use
Google is real world
Offers secure ways of managing student accounts
File storage is off-site
Using Google Apps teaches more than how to create a
digital portfolio

7. Google vs. Mahara
Free Costs to change software and to store files
Intuitive interface Visually complicated interface
Lots of free resources Limited free resources and few pay resources
Lots of (connected) Apps Limited in its scope of capability
Long Term Potential Short Term Solution
Easily Accessible Only accessible via Moodle
Teacher & Student Use Capability Mainly designed for student use

9. Google for Eportfolios

10. Which App for That?

11. Watershed School
What the Watershed Kids Say....

12. Cloud Computing & Collaboration

14. The Importance of Teacher Learning
in the 21st Century Classroom

15. The Importance of Teacher Learning
in the 21st Century Classroom

17. Google for Teachers

18. Google for Teachers
Google Mail

19. Google for Teachers
Google Mail
Google Docs

20. Google for Teachers
Google Mail
Google Docs
Google Apps

21. Google for Teachers
Google Mail
Google Docs
Google Apps
Google Wave

22. Google for Teachers
Google Mail
Google Docs
Google Apps
Google Wave
Google Books

23. Google for Teachers
Google Mail
Google Docs
Google Apps
Google Wave
Google Books
Google Calendar

24. Google for Teachers
Google Mail
Google Docs
Google Apps
Google Wave
Google Books
Google Calendar
Blogger

25. Google for Teachers
Google Mail
Google Docs
Google Apps
Google Wave
Google Books
Google Calendar
Blogger
Google Search

27. Lots of Resources...

29. Google
(noun, verb)

30. Google
(noun, verb)

31. Google
(noun, verb)
Don’t confuse with googol (number)!

32. Google
(noun, verb)
Don’t confuse with googol (number)!
•
(n) Google (a widely used search engine that uses
text-matching techniques to find web pages that are
important and relevant to a user's search)

33. Google
(noun, verb)
Don’t confuse with googol (number)!
•
(n) Google (a widely used search engine that uses
text-matching techniques to find web pages that are
important and relevant to a user's search)

34. Google
(noun, verb)
Don’t confuse with googol (number)!
•
(n) Google (a widely used search engine that uses
text-matching techniques to find web pages that are
important and relevant to a user's search)
•
(v) Google (search the internet (for information)
using the Google search engine) "He googled the
woman he had met at the party"; "My children are
googling all day"

36. Google Me!

37. Google Me!
When you want to
find out something
about someone,
often we turn to
Google to see
what’s on the web.

38. Google Me!
When you want to
find out something
about someone,
often we turn to
Google to see
what’s on the web.

40. Google Yourself!

41. Google Yourself!
What you find is called your “digital footprint”

42. Google Yourself!
What you find is called your “digital footprint”

43. Now we use Google for everything.

44. Now we use Google for everything.

45. Now we use Google for everything.

46. Now we use Google for everything.

47. Kindergardeners Do Too!

48. Recognize This?
Kindergardeners Do Too!

49. Recognize This?
Kindergardeners Do Too!

51. Started as a Simple Search Engine

53. Next Came More Searches

55. Oh My Google!
How You’ve Grown!

56. Oh My Google!
How You’ve Grown!
There are too Many Products to
Mention!

58. The Google
Graveyard

59. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.

60. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.
These include:

61. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.
These include:
* Google Search Mash

62. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.
These include:
* Google Search Mash
* Google Notebook

63. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.
These include:
* Google Search Mash
* Google Notebook
*Dodgeball

64. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.
These include:
* Google Search Mash
* Google Notebook
*Dodgeball
* Deskbar

65. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.
These include:
* Google Search Mash
* Google Notebook
*Dodgeball
* Deskbar
* Google Answers

66. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.
These include:
* Google Search Mash
* Google Notebook
*Dodgeball
* Deskbar
* Google Answers
*Google Lively

67. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.
These include:
* Google Search Mash
* Google Notebook
*Dodgeball
* Deskbar
* Google Answers
*Google Lively
* Google X

68. The Google
Graveyard
Not every Google product is made of gold. Google encourages
experimentation, and that leads to both success and failure. As
the decade progressed and the economy worsened, Google also
stopped being quite as experimental with products that didn't
have any money making potential.
These include:
* Google Search Mash
* Google Notebook
*Dodgeball
* Deskbar
* Google Answers
*Google Lively
* Google X
And more!

69. Google is that
you?

70. Google is that
you?
Google’s Mission:
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible
and useful.

71. Google is that
you?
Google’s Mission:
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible
and useful.

72. Google is that
you?
Google’s Mission:
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible
and useful.

73. Google is that
you?
Google’s Mission:
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible
and useful.
Cool Google Facts

80. Google in Education

82. What’s Out There?

83. What’s Out There?
Products designed for
ease of use, easy
access, and
collaboration.

84. What’s Out There?
Products designed for
ease of use, easy
access, and
collaboration.
Navigation tools

85. What’s Out There?
Products designed for
ease of use, easy
access, and
collaboration.
Navigation tools
Document creation,
editing & management

86. What’s Out There?
Products designed for
ease of use, easy
access, and
collaboration.
Navigation tools
Document creation,
editing & management
Personal organization

87. What’s Out There?
Products designed for
ease of use, easy
access, and
collaboration.
Navigation tools
Document creation,
editing & management
Personal organization
Search on steroids

88. What’s Out There?
Products designed for
ease of use, easy
access, and
collaboration.
Navigation tools
Document creation,
editing & management
Personal organization
Search on steroids
Access to information

90. Google for Building
Geographical Knowledge

91. Google for Building
Geographical Knowledge
Google Maps
Google Directions
Google Earth

94. Google Mail (Gmail)

95. Google Mail (Gmail)
Gmail is a free, advertising-
supported webmail, POP3, and
IMAP service provided by
Google. In the United Kingdom
and Germany, it is officially called
Google Mail.

97. Set Up Your Own Google
Mail Account...

98. Set Up Your Own Google
Mail Account...
Apart from the fact that Google Mail is probably the
best free email system on the planet – there are
more important reasons for setting up a Google
Mail account – basically, once you have an
account it is really easy to then subscribe to lots of
other Google services which are very powerful and
best of all – free!

99. Set Up a Gmail Account

101. iGoogle

102. iGoogle
iGoogle (formerly Google
Personalized Homepage and
Google IG), a service of Google,
is a customizable AJAX-based
startpage or personal web portal
(much like Netvibes, Pageflakes,
My Yahoo!, and Windows Live
Personalized Experience).
Google originally launched the
service in May 2005. ...

104. Set Up Your Own
iGoogle Page....

105. Set Up Your Own
iGoogle Page....
Instructions
1. Step 1
Create an email account. An iGoogle page can be set up without having an email address from
Google, however, without an account, you will not be able to save the information created on your
page. Without a Google account, the page set up will be stored for only a short period of time, then
you will be forced to re-create it again.
2. Step 2
Log in. In the top right corner of the Google homepage, you will see two options that say "iGoogle"
and "Sign In." Click the "Sign In" option first and insert your first part of your email address (the words
before @ google.com). The screen will take you back to the Google homepage.
3. Step 3
Choose gadgets. Once again, at the top right corner, there will be an iGoogle option. On the Google
homepage, you will see an option to "Look for New Stuff." After clicking the "New Stuff" option,
choose from a large variety of "gadgets" offered by Google. A gadget is simply a tool or game in a
frame that is added to your homepage, such as CNN.com or the local time and temperature) Once
you have chosen all of the gadgets, click the option in the bottom left corner that will take you back to
the iGoogle homepage.
4. Step 4
Choose a theme. Select the "Choose a Theme" option, which is located in the upper right corner. You
can choose from "Create Your Own Theme" or "Pick From Artists' Theme." Between the two choices
of themes, there are hundreds of looks.

106. Tomorrow’s Google
Agenda....
Google Apps
Google Docs
Google Sites
Google Calendar
Google Searches