The document provides an overview of a staff training day at Crandall Public Library that covered many Google tools. It lists and briefly describes various Google search features and applications including general search tips, personalized search, images search, Google Books, Google News, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Groups, and Google Sketchup. The training aimed to showcase the wide range of free Google tools available.
Tired of "googling" something but you can't find what you need? This session will teach you some tips and tricks so you can "google" like a pro. Need a calculator? Google it. Need a photo of a rose that is red? Google it. Need to research plate tectonics but you only want scholarly articles? Google it. Need articles on the Inca Indians written on the third grade level? Google it! Really, it's that simple!
Smaller public and academic libraries never seem to have enough funds to accomplish everything we'd like. Google provides free access to a sweet asuite of services that allow smaller libraries to do more with less. With little or no technological experience, these tools allow easy collaboration, enhanced communication, and nifty innovation. Discover how to make the most of Google tools, like Google Docs, Picasa, and Google Wave, in the areas of reference, outreach, and staff communication.
Social Media Seminar 3: Google, beyond the rainbowCarrie Saarinen
This presentation is from the third in a series of four seminars on social media, designed for and presented to faculty and staff at a medical school. This was an introductory level seminar series.
"In this seminar, we will dig into the Google products catalog and examine the social, or collaborative, functions of popular applications: Google Calendar, Google Sites, Google Reader, Google Groups, Google Maps, and demonstrate customizing your Google Account Profile and creating an iGoogle homepage. We’ll take a look at campus use of Google Search and talk about how Google indexes our web pages. To close, we’ll take a peek at Google Labs and their beta products."
Tired of "googling" something but you can't find what you need? This session will teach you some tips and tricks so you can "google" like a pro. Need a calculator? Google it. Need a photo of a rose that is red? Google it. Need to research plate tectonics but you only want scholarly articles? Google it. Need articles on the Inca Indians written on the third grade level? Google it! Really, it's that simple!
Smaller public and academic libraries never seem to have enough funds to accomplish everything we'd like. Google provides free access to a sweet asuite of services that allow smaller libraries to do more with less. With little or no technological experience, these tools allow easy collaboration, enhanced communication, and nifty innovation. Discover how to make the most of Google tools, like Google Docs, Picasa, and Google Wave, in the areas of reference, outreach, and staff communication.
Social Media Seminar 3: Google, beyond the rainbowCarrie Saarinen
This presentation is from the third in a series of four seminars on social media, designed for and presented to faculty and staff at a medical school. This was an introductory level seminar series.
"In this seminar, we will dig into the Google products catalog and examine the social, or collaborative, functions of popular applications: Google Calendar, Google Sites, Google Reader, Google Groups, Google Maps, and demonstrate customizing your Google Account Profile and creating an iGoogle homepage. We’ll take a look at campus use of Google Search and talk about how Google indexes our web pages. To close, we’ll take a peek at Google Labs and their beta products."
Overview of current developments in web searching. Standard web search is largely unchanged although there are some developments with Ask, Exalead and Live. Most action is in social search, social bookmarking, online video, and some in academic / scholarly resources.
To Infinity & Beyond! Taking Google Beyond the BasicsDon Boozer
Everyone knows to add site:edu and to put quotes around phrases in their Google Searches. Now it's time to take your Google skills to the next level. Ad infinitum et ultra!
Internet @ Schools West 2010 & Internet Librarian 2010 October 25, 2010, Monterey, CA.
Presented by Buffy J. Hamilton & Polly-Alida Farrington
http://www.pafa.net/ and www.theunquietlibrarian.wikispaces.com
Short workshop for WSWHE BOCES School Library System covering some handy tools for back to school. LiveBinder of the tools available at: http://livebinders.com/play/play/27254
Jan 2010 - Please note that a lot of the tips in this screencast are really out of date now! Slideshare has made it much easier to do slidecasts now.
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Slidecast about slidecasts for the screencasting classes at the Connecticut State Library this spring. My apologies to the Mac world for not mentioning Keynote and other Mac stuff. Someday I'll have a Mac again. TIP: leave about a few seconds of blank air at the end of your audio. Otherwise the last words on your audio get blipped out, at least mine did!
These are NOT suggestions from things you’ve searched before. Just suggestions from everyone.
Universal search results in Search Suggest http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-new-features-enhance-search-beyond.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/stars-make-search-more-personal.html Synchronizes with your google bookmarks.
New sidebar – knows what type of search you’ve done. This one brings up shopping resutss Search options sidebar introduced in mid 2009. New options are frequently added. Always check! Lots more limiters on the sidebar than there used to be. Will vary by search
Might be more helpful for this type of search. Note that options for further narrowing change as the type of result changes
Lots more limiters on the sidebar than there used to be. Will vary by search
Different than the Images search above
Expands the content and shows preview of pages
Notice the NEWS at top Followed by news feed from twitter And then more results Click on LAST 24 HOURS
Handy for researching content in other languages – Picks the most appropriate language for your query Translates your query into that language Finds results and translates them back into your language for you.
Results from people you’re connected to and the people they’re connected to And from the blogs and resources you subscribe to.
Do a search Select options on sidebar Wonder Wheel view Helps focus topics.
Displays results that refer to dates along a timeline. Pulls from web pages, google books, articles and more. Can be useful in finding primary sources
Options sidebar for Images search Note: still have to go to ADVANCED SEARCH to limit to images that can be reused.
Incorporated into regular search now – had been in google labs Search for an image, look for SIMILAR IMAGES link below thumbnail
In Google Labs Gathers images based on visual and semantic similarity. Connects images based on their visual and semantic similarity.
Class project
Use article title or URL
May not see this yet. Partnering with music sites: like iLike, Pandora, Rhapsody, etc. Search on lyrics, etc.
Been around in Google Labs for years, but handy!
Day by day – top search terms
Lock safe search from SETTINGS – need password to unlock. Could you lock all the machines in a lab? And make sure browser doesn’t remember password? Mostly a visual thing. See the colored balls and you know safe search is on. Easy to defeat and not foolproof. I searched for ‘pornography’ – didn’t get any porn directly, but did get results that would lead me to it.
Recently acquired by google – searchable by texting and web.
While we’re on the topic of being organized…. Lets look at google’s calendars.
http://www.google.com/coop/manage/cse/ Select the sites you want to search Add them to the custom search and create your own search box You can put it on another web page Or add it to your iGoogle
http://www.kidrex.org/
http://www.google.com/publicdata/home Complete list of World Bank indicators currently available: CO2 emissions per capita , Electricity consumption per capita , Energy use per capita , Exports as percentage of GDP , Fertility rate , GDP deflator change , GDP growth rate , GNI per capita in PPP dollars , Gross Domestic Product , Gross National Income in PPP dollars , Imports as percentage of GDP , Internet users as percentage of population , Life expectancy , Military expenditure as percentage of GDP , Mortality rate, under 5 , Population , and Population growth rate .
Articles and citations from scholarly publishers, preprints, publication databases and more Links to full text articles where possible Connect to your local academic library through the Scholar Preferences screen.
Search options
Results – free articles linked on right. Cited by…. Related articles. Web search Check library holdings BL direct – british library - purchase on the spot – electronic download All versions.
Full text
Results –indicates a free online version of the article Cited by…. Related articles. Web search Import into EndNote Check library holdings BL direct – british library - purchase on the spot – electronic download All versions.
Add your local academic libraries Select a bibliography manager to export citations to
Add a google scholar search box to your own web pages
full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts
Basic News search focused on last 30 days. 25,000 constantly updating news sources Archived News Search Recently announced that in the past year the # of digitized articles has quadrupled. And they’re including more sources and further back in time. (source: http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/extra-extra-updates-from-our-growing.html)
Standard news page with major topic categories on left.
For language students and students from other countries, get news in other languages For all students, these pages give view of news from other points of view
Story page is nicely organized. Timeline, images, videos, quotes, blogs, local news etc.
Do a custom search News IMAGE VERSION – pulls out the images from the stories. . Same stories, just a different view.
Search for a name, get one quote at top of results page, with link to more quotes From this page, you can search within the quotes.
Search by dates takes you into the archives search. Which can also be accessed from the advanced search screen. Back to 1700’s. Quadrupled the # of digitized stories over the last year.
Halifax Nova scotia Gazette from 1753
Igoogle is a great way to organize lots of information and services all in one place Calendar, to do lists, search boxes for various servcies Library catalog search box Gmail
Also lets you gather headlines and updates from lots of other web sites. Any site that has an RSS feed Latest headlines are updated here whenever the original site gets updated.
Find a source you want to keep up with Find the RSS link
So what else has rss feeds? Magazines Newspapers Youtube Flickr Delicious Yahoo subject searches Google news searches Commercial databases like ebsco and gale
OR BY RSS Great for kids tracking topics.
Alternative to iGoogle Focused on reading tons of rss feeds Doesn’t have the extra calendars, to do lists, games, etc that iGoogle has Use Folders to organize feeds by topic
Share = meant to be shared with your contacts Star = save it for later reference Note = add a note about the post Add Comment = comments can be read by others Email = send to someone Tags = add keywords to help you retrieve items later.
Your shared items have a public page where others can follow what you’re sharing Also has options to republish on other web sites.
While we’re on the topic of being organized…. Lets look at google’s calendars.
Share events, schedules, deadlines, holidays. Teachers, students, administrators Library schedule – block out times for classes, teachers, projects, events. Everyone can see when you’re available or not! Everyone can see how lively and busy your library is!
Added a public calendar with UK holidays
Finding calendars to add to yours Ask your friends if they have them Look at other web sites – I found this on a public library web site, clicked on a link and it took me to google calendar Could have a collaborative professional development calendar for your region.
Add your calendar to your own web sites.
Copy and paste this code to the spot on your web page, blog or wiki where you want your calendar to appear. Changes will show up whenever the web page is loaded.
Create documents, presentation slides and spreadsheets. Share with others as collaborators. Work on a doc together They can edit at the same time as you View history of changes and revert back to earlier versions if needed Can export in a number of formats. Can import also. Important to back up your work! Get a URL to let others view your work,
Here you can see comments from multiple editors Ideas? Groups can write a report or create a presentation Students can write a story together Write a script for a play Edit articles for school paper Students can write comments on other’s projects Teachers & parents can see how a project is coming along and redirect if need be Teacher can track who’s doing what on a project Students can create portfolios of work - docs, presentations, etc. Teachers know when the assignment was turned in. No more “dog ate my homework”
Also has a great option for creating a survey form. The data from the survey gets stored in a spreadsheet. Forms can have multiple pages and You can have a form branch to a different page depending on the respondent’s answer! Cool. The form has a public URL you can send out to anyone. Handy!
And of course the a regular spreadsheet has all the options for doing calculations.
Forms can have multiple pages You can have a form branch to a different page depending on the respondent’s answer! Cool.
Lets you create a group of web pages. Students can use these to gather work in one place Work collaboratively on pages Easy to add their google docs to the pages Create links to external resources etc. Create a classroom page with news, resources etc. And links to student work.
Lets you create a group of web pages. Students can use these to gather work in one place Work collaboratively on pages Easy to add their google docs to the pages Create links to external resources etc. Create a classroom page with news, resources etc. And links to student work.
Choose a template Select the “parent page” for the new page.
Calendars, google docs, forms, slideshows, maps
Simple news/blog page
Use the Recent Posts optinon to pull the latest news off your Announcements page and highlight it on the main page.
Choice of layouts Added a list of links to research tools Embedded my google doc and preso slides in progress Content on this page updates when the originals are edited in Google Docs Include a feedback form to get responses from other students.
http://mhms-media.blogspot.com/
Picasa is great for organizing your photos and has terrific face recognition
Go to maps.google.com Click on My Maps Create a new Map Title and Description Choice of public or private Ability to import kmz, kml or georss data Or url from special mapping sites. Options to invite collaborators and give them editing rights.
Layers with photos. Export a map from Google Maps as .kml file and open in Google earth to get tons more info! Not sure I’m going to hike this!
Exported this map to Google Maps EG: hiking trails. on a few extra layers in Google earth I found some hiking trail info.
Layers of information about global events, links to information, pictures, video, etc. Darfur =- US Holocaust Memorial Museum Information on destroyed and damaged villages Links to information from various agencies working and monitoring the region. Stories of real people Zoom in and see the outlines of destroyed villages.
Timeline feature – some areas of the maps have historical photos. This is Lake Chad in Cameroon. Showing the encroaching desert.
Back to something lighter, I used the Ruler Path to measure the distance I walked one day.
Google Ocean – lots of ocean info and geography of the ocean.
Can’t forget about the sky and mars
Impact crater on mars
Create your own group to focus on a book discussion, plan an event, classroom group, etc.