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Google for Educators Overview
All About Google Tools
Lucy Gray
University of Chicago
Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education
iSummit ’09
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

I♥Google

New York
Google Teachers Academy

Google’s Mission
“Organize the world’s information
and make it universally accessible
and useful.”

Google Philosophy
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.

Google Philosophy
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.

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.

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

Ideas worth replicating...

A video is worth 1000 words...

Questions that come to mind...
How can we use these tools for our own professional
productivity?
How can we incorporate these into our own
schools?
What can schools learn from innovative businesses?
What are WE doing differently?

Google For Educators Site
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Features
Recent Projects and News
The Inﬁnite Thinking Machine
Teacher Community
Classroom Activities
Classroom Posters
Tools for Your Classroom

Recent Projects and News
http://www.google.com/educators
Search Lessons
Design It: Shelter Competition
Study Tips
Ancient Rome 3D Curriculum
Competition
Doodle 4 Google
Project Spectrum
Archived Projects

Inﬁnite Thinking Machine
http://www.inﬁnitethinking.org/
A weblog sponsored by WestEd and Google
“Internet T.V. shows” found also in iTunes and Google
Video
Concrete examples of innovation in education
7 contributors

Teacher Community
http://www.google.com/educators/community.html
A Google Group for all teachers
Participate in threaded discussions
Network with other educators
Sign up for newsletter

Classroom Activities
http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html
Exemplary Lessons
NECC Presentations
Google Lit Trips

Classroom Posters
http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html
Book Search
Earth
Maps
News
iGoogle
Web Search
Blogger
Calendar
Docs
Groups
Sites
Picasa
SketchUp
Google Apps Education Edition
Custom Search Engine

More Even More

Book Search
http://books.google.com/
“Search the full text of books to ﬁnd
ones that interest you and learn
where to buy or borrow them.”
About Google Book Search
Add Google Book Search to your
site
Google Book Search - News &
Views
Explore Shakespeare with Google
My Library

Earth
http://earth.google.com/
Satellite imagery of the Earth that includes layers of information
What’s New In Google Earth 5.0
Content partners include Discovery Education, National Geographic,
Wikipedia
Still pictures
Share ﬁles
Google Earth
Google Earth Community
Teacher Meme

Maps
http://maps.google.com/
Google Maps
Searchable
Directions
Street View
My Maps
My Proﬁle
Google Maps User Guide

News
http://news.google.com/
Search thousands of publications
Use in conjunction with Google Reader via RSS feed
Archives
Custom news searches and personalized news page
Blog search
Comments by people in the
Quotes

Web Search
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/
Deﬁne
File Type
Currency Conversion
Calculator
Track Packages
Earthquakes
Google Help: Search Features

Search Curriculum
Google For Educators - Web Search

Docs & Spreadsheets
http://docs.google.com/
Documents, spreadsheets AND presentations
Create surveys with forms that dump data into spreadsheets
Import and export using a variety of file types
Share and publish files
Open files sent in Gmail directly in Docs & Spreadsheet
Use a wide variety of templates

Custom Search Engine
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
Formerly known as Google Co-op
Roll your own search engine using pre-selected sites
Embed on your website and blog
Bookmark sites directly to list of web sites
Others can can contribute to the web sites search
Examples:
My Search Engines

Google Apps - Education Edition
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html
Google Apps for Education
Customizable design
Features can be deactivated
Google Apps Community
Includes:
Gmail
Google Talk
Calendar
Docs
Sites
Video
Google Message Security

Next Steps

Strategies for success
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
Make generic student accounts for projects as an alternative to Google Apps
Visit the Google Apps Education Edition community site
Check out Google’s new Search lessons
Advocate and educate in your school or district about the power of these
tools!

Recommended 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
List of other schools using Google Apps

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Blog: http://lucygray.org
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