google tools for teachers
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Google Tools for TeachersLucy Gray
Education Consultant
http://www.lucygray.org
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Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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A sense of fun pervades everything.
Risking taking and pursuing’s one passion are encouraged.
Everything is in a state of perpetual beta. Continous improvement is important.
Creativity and innovation are core
Thinking Outside the Box: Google’s Working Environment
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Guiding Principles
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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.
Guiding 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.
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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.
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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
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Twenty Percent Time
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A Video Speaks 1000 Words
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http://youtu.be/VfDW7qAdFGk
Food 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?
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http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/index.html
Google Apps for Education
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Google Teacher AcademyGoogle Certified Teachers
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Google Science Fair
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Exploring Computational Thinking
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Chrome in Education
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Google Earth for Educators
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YouTube in Education
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So, where do you start?
More Even More
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Blogger
Books
Calendar
Custom Search
Docs
Earth
Gmail
Google+
Maps
News
Picasa
Picnik
Reader
Sites
Web Search
YouTube
Docs
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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
My Docs Home Page (Google Drive)
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Share Folders
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Templates
Global Awareness Survey
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Survey: http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyskillssurvey Results: http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyskillssurveyresults
Global Awareness Results
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Scott Floyd/TCEA App List
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Escondido Union School District
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Liz Davis
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Flubaroo
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Presentations
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Presentations
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Mr. Stritchfield
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Tom Barrett
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Docs Ideas
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Peer editing during writers’ workshop
Lit circle group activities
Project management
Lab reports
ePortfolios
Shared lesson repositories
Curriculum guides
Unit Plans
Course evaluations
Shared notetaking at meetings and conferences
Classroom walk throughs
Grant proposals
Sign up forms
Surveys
Book talks
Embedded presentations in Google Sites
Sites
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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
Sites Homepage
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Goochland Course Guide
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Cheryl Davis
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Dolores Gende
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Mr. Smith
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https://sites.google.com/a/boyslatin.org/smith/
Oregon Google Summit
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Wendy Gorton - CUE
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Sites Ideas
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Teacher web site
Professional portfolios
Repository for departmental meeting notes
Accreditation documentation
Event planning
Professional development resources
Assessment
Student portfolios
Digital science notebooks
Book previews
Books
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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
My Library
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A Sample Search
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http://goo.gl/pXOpK
Book Search Ideas
Post your required readings for courses in My Library on bookshelves by topic
Post the link to a specific bookshelf within an assignment or on a Google Site
Have students search text for keywords or to find quotes
Have older students write reviews
Embed the Google Book Search listing in a wiki or blog
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YouTube
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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
Creating and Curating
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Curating
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.
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Homepage
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Browse
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Movies
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Upload
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Anatomy of a YouTube Video
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YouTube for Schools
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YouTube for Schools
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Your Channel
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Menu
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My Channel
Video Manager
Subscriptions
Inbox
Settings
Switch Account
Sign Out
Edit Your Channel
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Video Manager
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Video Editor
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Subscriptions
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Suggested Channel Subscriptions
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• adobeyouthvoices
• ArtInstituteChicago
• ascdwholechild
• BIEPBL
• citizentube
• ColosiR or RichardColosi
• CommonSenseEducators
• CZSBrookfieldZoo
• ConstitutionCenter
• DiscoveryEducation
• Edutopia
• emarcos
• FundforTeachers
• GoogleScienceFair
• jamestsanders
• KeyCurriculumPress
• khanacademy
• LibertyKidsTV
• NASAexplorer
• NatGeoWild
• NatlWritingProject
• OneWorldTV
• owypstaff
• PlayingforChange
• SchoolHouseRocksKids
• SMARTClassrooms
Recording & Uploading Video
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Settings
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Mobile
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Sharing
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Potential Uses
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Flip your classroom
Review and remediation
Language resources
Project research
Independent study
From Tami’s Tech4Teaching
Professional development
Student and teacher reflection
Writing prompts
Field trip documentation
Listening/viewing centers on mobile devices using Belkin’s Rockstar splitter
Choose Your Own Adventure activities
Screencasts
Embed a video in a Google Site and have kids answer questions in an embedded Google Form
Activity
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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
YouTube IdeasOrganize material for
courses into playlists
Create screencasts and videos for your lectures
Subscribe to channels to be updated of new content
Look at the subscriptions of friends for channels to subscribe to
Have kids access your playlists through their mobile devices
Have students design a collaborative project (i.e Life in a Day)
Email video to your channel while on field trips
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Maps & Earth
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Google Earth and Maps Ideas
View and create Google Earth Lit Trips
Appoint a student to be the class cartographer to document locations encountered by your class
Enable layers in Google Earth to see supplementary materials
Create buildings in Sketchup and import them into Google Earth
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Custom Search
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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
Two of Lucy’s Search Engines
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http://goo.gl/LgUZEhttp://goo.gl/bHHBM
Custom Search Engine Ideas
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Create a search engine for particular units
Have a departmental or grade level engine with members contributing links through Google Marker
Have students serve as curators by creating their own search engines for a unit of study
Google+
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Google+ Circles
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Google+ Hangouts
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Search
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What’s Your Search Story?
http://www.youtube.com/user/SearchStories
Inside Web Search118
Search Stories120
Search Education Hub121
New!
Google Power Searcher Class
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Control + F
Organizing a SearchWhat 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 … ?)
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Keyword 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
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Other Search TipsUse 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”
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Web Search Lessons128
What Do You Love?
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General Google Strategies
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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
Additional ResourcesThe 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
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Lucy Grayelemenous on Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc.lucy@lucygrayconsulting.comhttp://lucygrayconsulting.com
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