google for educators

Google for Educators

Tina Sartori

Google’s Mission Statement

Google's mission is to organize the world's

information and make it universally accessible and

useful.

Larry Page & Sergey BrinMy Heroes

Google Options

More…Even More

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Google for Educators

http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Gmail : Fast Searchable Email

Gmail Advantages:

•Free- no invite needed

•Storage 2 gig and growing

•Online File Storage

•Searchable

Calendar: Organize and Share Events

Calendar Advantages:• Multiple Calendars

• Shared Calendars• Search Public Events• 17 Languages• Free & Searchable

Docs, Presentation & Spreadsheets

Docs, Presentation &Spreadsheets

Advantages:• Use our online editor to format documents, spell-check and more.• Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text. Download documents to your desktop as Word, PDF and more. • View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version. • Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address. Edit documents online with whomever you choose.

Images Picaso & Videos

Images

Picaso

Videos

Advantages:

• Fully searchable

• Share images

• Organize images• Free & Searchable

Alerts: Email Updates

Alerts Advantages

• Easy to set up• Very handy to keep

track of particular topics

• Can be set to day, week or month notices

• Free & Searchable

Earth & Maps

Earth

Maps

Advantages:• Explore places

• Use with GPS• 3D• Upgrades• Cell Integration• Virtual Field Trips• Around the World• Free & Searchable

Books & Scholar

Book

Scholar

Advantages:• Search only academics• Full Text books• Portable books• Library• Free & Searchable

Blogger: Fast Easy Fun

Blogger

Advantages

• So easy to set up and manage, even my mum has a blogger site!

• Excellent for teaching

• Good for students to set up an online journal

• Great range of layout templates

• No advertising

• Comments and many other features

• Everyone should have a blog!

News & Groups

NewsGroups

Advantages:• Aggregated• Searchable• Find answers• Tech support via groups• Current Events

Translate: View in other Languages

Translate Advantages:

• Search for pages in other languages

• All volunteer

• Use in language learning

Labs: Google’s Tech Playground

Labs Advantages:

• Stay current on new products

• Become part of the Beta groups

• Provide Google with feedback

Googling for PowerPoint

Advantages:

• Simply add filetype:ppt to your search term

• Ready to use content

• Limit search to ppt

• Ranking

• View in browser or download

Thank you!

Contact Information

Tina Sartori

Computrac

Vice President Training

Email: tsartori@compu-trac.com

Website: www.compu-trac.com

Training Site: www.computractrainer.com