Google Tools for Teachers

1Google Tools for TeachersLucy GrayEducation Consultanthttp://www.lucygray.org

2Google’s mission is to organizethe world’s information and makeit universally accessible anduseful.

3Thinking Outside the Box:Google’s Working EnvironmentCreativity and Everything is in a Risking taking and A sense of funinnovation are core state of perpetual pursuing’s one pervades beta. Continous passion are everything. improvement is encouraged. important.

4 The Search by John Battellehttp://goo.gl/GDTgG

5Guiding Principles 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.

6Guiding 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.

7Applied 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.

8Applied 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

9Twenty Percent Time

10A Video Speaks 1000 Words http://youtu.be/VfDW7qAdFGk

11Food 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?

http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/index.html

13Google Apps for Education

14Google Teacher Academy Google Certiﬁed Teachers

15Google Science Fair

16Exploring Computational Thinking

17Chrome in Education

18Google Earth for Educators

19YouTube in Education

20YouTube for Schools

21So, where do you start?

22More Even MoreBlogger NewsBooks PicasaCalendar PicnikCustom Search ReaderDocs SitesEarth Web SearchGmail YouTubeGoogle+Maps

23Docs 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

24My Docs Home Page (Google Drive)

25Share Folders

26Templates

27Lucy’s iPad Resources

28Global Awareness Survey Survey: http://tinyurl.com/ 21stcenturyskillssurvey Results: http://tinyurl.com/ 21stcenturyskillssurveyresults

29Global Awareness Results

30Scott Floyd/TCEA App List

31Escondido Union School District

32Liz Davis

33Flubaroo

34Presentations

35Presentations

36Mr. Stritchﬁeld

37Tom Barrett

38Docs Ideas Peer editing during writers’ workshop Shared notetaking at meetings and conferences Lit circle group activities Classroom walk throughs Project management Grant proposals Lab reports Sign up forms ePortfolios Surveys Shared lesson repositories Book talks Curriculum guides Embedded presentations Unit Plans in Google Sites Course evaluations

39Sites 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

40Sites Homepage

41Goochland Course Guide

42Cheryl Davis

43Dolores Gende

44Mr. Smith https://sites.google.com/a/boyslatin.org/smith/

45Oregon Google Summit

46Wendy Gorton - CUE

47Sites Ideas Teacher web site Professional Professional development portfolios resources Repository for Assessment departmental Student portfolios meeting notes Digital science Accreditation notebooks documentation Book previews Event planning

48Books 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

49Books

50My Library

51A Sample Search

http://goo.gl/pXOpK

61Book Search Ideas Have students Post your required search text forreadings for courses keywords or to ﬁndin My Library on quotesbookshelves by topic Have older Post the link to a students writespeciﬁc bookshelf reviewswithin an assignment Embed the Googleor on a Google Site Book Search listing in a wiki or blog

62YouTube 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 Channelhttp://youtube.com/elemenous

64Creating and Curating

65Curating Use the browse and search functionality of YouTube to find channels and individual videos. Use Filter to refine your query. Create playlists for units that you teach. Set them up ahead of time or create them on the fly. Give links to playlists to students to supplement classroom materials Collect videos created by students to show to parents. Can use private links.

66Homepage

67Browse

68Movies

69Upload

70Anatomy of a YouTube Video

71YouTube for Teachers

72Playlists - YouTube for Teachers

73YouTube Edu

76Your Channel

77MenuMy ChannelVideo ManagerSubscriptionsInboxSettingsSwitch AccountSign Out

78My Channel

79My Channel

80My Channel

81Edit Your Channel

82Video Manager

83Video Editor

84Subscriptions

85Suggested Channel Subscriptions• adobeyouthvoices • GoogleScienceFair• ArtInstituteChicago • jamestsanders• ascdwholechild • KeyCurriculumPress• BIEPBL • khanacademy• citizentube • LibertyKidsTV• ColosiR or RichardColosi • NASAexplorer• CommonSenseEducators • NatGeoWild• CZSBrookﬁeldZoo • NatlWritingProject• ConstitutionCenter • OneWorldTV• DiscoveryEducation • owypstaff• Edutopia • PlayingforChange• emarcos • SchoolHouseRocksKids• FundforTeachers • SMARTClassrooms

86Recording & Uploading Video

87Settings

88Mobile

89Sharing

90Choose Your Own Adventure

91Potential Uses Writing prompts Flip your classroom Field trip documentation Review and remediation Listening/viewing centers on mobile Language resources devices using Belkin’s Rockstar splitter Project research Choose Your Own Adventure Independent study activities From Tami’s Tech4Teaching Screencasts Professional development Embed a video in a Google Site and Student and teacher reﬂection have kids answer questions in an embedded Google Form

92 Activity Upload your video via email. Take out your mobile device.Interview a neighbor. Ask them about their conference experience thus far. Email it to: 62497548264@mms.youtube.com Visit my channel to see the results: http://youtube.com/elemenous

93YouTube Ideas Organize material forcourses into playlists Have kids access Create screencasts your playlists throughand videos for your their mobile deviceslectures Have students Subscribe to design a collaborativechannels to be project (i.e Life in aupdated of new Day)content Email video to your Look at the channel while on ﬁeldsubscriptions of friends tripsfor channels tosubscribe to

94Maps & Earth

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

102Google Earth and Maps Ideas View and create Google Earth Lit Trips Appoint a student to be the classcartographer to document locationsencountered by your class Enable layers in Google Earth to seesupplementary materials Create buildings in Sketchup and importthem into Google Earth

103Custom Search 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

104Two of Lucy’s Search Engines http://goo.gl/bHHBM http://goo.gl/LgUZE

105Custom Search Engine Ideas Create a search engine for particular units Have students Have a serve as curators by departmental or creating their own grade level engine search engines for a with members unit of study contributing links through Google Marker

106Google+

107Google+ Circles

108Google+ Hangouts

111Google Hangouts on Air

112Search

Did You Know? Parisian Love Story

What’s Your Search Story?http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories

118Inside Web Search

119A Google A Day

120Search Stories

121Search Education Hub e w!N

122Google Power Searcher Class

Dan Russell

Control + F

125Organizing a Search What is it I’m looking for?(think about common keywords) How would someone else talk about it?(what words would they use? how would THEY describe it?) Which of those terms would be most common? Which of those terms would be very specialized to this topic? What kind of thing would make me happy?(do I want a single web page, a deﬁnition, a collection, an image.... or … ?)

126Keyword Choice Think about what you are trying to ﬁnd Choose words that you think will appear on the page Put yourself in the mindset of the author of those words Use synonyms Start broad and use just a few words, then go deep Use contextual terms

127Other Search Tips Use specifiers Example: [Georgia population wikipedia] Try an image search when normal means fail, you might find something that will be useful or spark your interest in a different way. Word order matters—when it’s not working one way, try another. When searching for common phrases, don’t leave out the “stop words.” (e.g., [ Lord of the Rings] ) Use double quotes to find a particular sequence of words Example: “Daniel M Russell” or “Ursula K Le Guin”

128Web Search Lessons

129What Do You Love?

130General Google Strategies 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

131Additional 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

132Lucy Grayelemenous on Twitter, YouTube, Flickr,etc.lucy@lucygrayconsulting.comhttp://lucygrayconsulting.com

http://www.lucygray.org	334
http://elemenous.typepad.com	283
http://www.scoop.it	137
http://lucygrayconsulting.com	48
http://feeds.feedburner.com	7
http://www.lucygrayconsulting.com	7
http://kenyaschoolreport.tumblr.com	5
http://www.linkedin.com	4
http://pinterest.com	2
http://flavors.me	2
http://www.elemenous.typepad.com	2
https://moreheadstate.blackboard.com	1
https://jujo00obo2o234ungd3t8qjfcjrs3o6k-a-sites-opensocial.googleusercontent.com	1
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com	1

Google Tools for Teachers

by Lucy Gray on Jul 21, 2012

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

14 Embeds 834

Statistics