Here are the slides from Week 6, part of the Social Media Driving Licence. Please note that much of this session involved hands-on/live demo elements which are not covered in these slides.

1. Social Media Driving Licence
Google:
more than just a
search engine
Ange Fitzpatrick
Andy Priestner
Week 6

2. • Understand Google’s suite of web tools
• Explore cloud storage
• Investigate YouTube as an educational
tool
• Set up G+ and try Hangouts
Session objectives

3. • It underpins most web usage
• We used it to create the SMDL
• It’s where most of us find the content we wish
to share
• Confidence using Google’s web tools is
essential for both professional and personal
social media
Wait, why is Google
on the SMDL?

4. Exercise: Sketch my
Google

5. Working in the cloud
cloud computing n.
the use of networked facilities for the
storage and processing of data rather
than a user's local computer, access to
data or services typically being via the
Internet

6. Frank the Dog

8. Google Drive

9. • Create documents, spreadsheets, forms and presentations
• Upload MS Office files
• Organise your documents into folders
• Share items with others, collaborate and edit in real time
• 15GB of upload storage, with unlimited storage of items
created in Drive
Google Dashboard:
Drive

10. Hands on exercise

11. • Create a document, name it and add
content
• Share the document with your
neighbour
• Edit your neighbour’s document
Over to you!

12. • Go to http://bit.ly/SMDLfairytale
• Open ‘An SMDL Fairy Tale’
• Add text
• Add a comment
Over to you!

13. • Great for creating and sharing calendars with
colleagues
• Emails reminders about meetings and events
• Can toggle specific calendars on and off
Google Dashboard:
Calendar

14. “I can access
work and
personal
calendars
wherever I
am”

15. • 5 million unique Street View images
• Satellite images are updated as quickly as
every 2 weeks
• If the Google car can’t reach a location, a
Google pushbike does!
Google Dashboard:
Maps

16. “I made an
interactive
Google Map
for my Scout
troop’s hike,
so parents
could follow
our route”

17. • A free email service with lots of storage space
• Has a powerful search function
• Integrates well with other tools like Drive
• Can be configured to access your email offline
• Available on your mobile
• You can un-send a message, as long as the
recipient hasn’t opened it!
Google Dashboard:
Gmail

18. Romanes
eunt
domus!*
*Romani ite
domum!

19. • Supports 80 languages
• Produces good translations into English
• Strong on European languages
• Translate directly from the search box
• Useful for getting a sense of a phrase on
the fly
Google Dashboard:
Translate

20. Break: see you in 5!

24. •Allows you to upload your own, or browse content create
by others
• 100 hours of content loaded every minute
• 78% of Americans have watched a video online, 50% of
them have watched an educational video
• How-to and educational videos are the second and third
most popular category on YouTube
•Perfect for teaching skills better seen than described
Google Dashboard:
YouTube

25. Hands on exercise

26. Origami Challenge!

27. Google Dashboard:
G+
Remember this?

28. Round 1: Geography
1. China
2. India
3. Facebook
4. Tencent
5. What’s App
6. USA
7. Google+
8. Indonesia
9. LinkedIn
10. Twitter

29. • A social network and identity service
• +1 button is used 5 billion times a day
• Having a G+ profile boosts your Google ranking
• You can organise your social stream into circles
• Circles allow you to stratify content
Google Dashboard:
G+

30. Hands on exercise

31. Remember this guy?

32. Visitors & Residents

33. Read, Watch, Listen
• Read the Week 6 summary on the blog
• Watch the Week 6 playlist on YouTube
• Listen to the Week 6 podcast on Audioboo
Engage
• Blog about one of the Google tools we’ve looked at today
• Promote your blogpost on Twitter
• Curate a playlist on YouTube and share on Twitter or G+
Before next week…
• Set up a Flickr account
• Bring a fun picture that you own
Google - Tasks

34. IMAGE CREDITS
Flickr Creative Commons:
Hands-on exercise: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adikos/4444061098/Adikos
YouTube: https://www.flickr.com/photos/23963573@N08/3606295240/ redsoul300
Cat Videos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hertzen/5543037037 Viktor Hertzen
Globe: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironrodart/4132833849/ IronRodArt - Royce Bair
Roman: https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelloudon/4457922087 Thornypup
Origami: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl/5547154725 kennymatic
Other :
Before Google: http://www.shoeboxblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/life-before-
google-500x496.jpg
Claudia: https://www.flickr.com/photos/marshables/
Ange: https://www.flickr.com/photos/marshables/

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