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Digital Destinations In History

Google Tools – Day 1Office of Educational Technology

8201 Rockaway Blvd, Ozone Park NY 11416 Agenda

November 6, 2010

Course Readings: "Web Literacy for Educators by Alan November , "Google Maps Hack - Tips & Tools for Geographic Searching and Remixing" by Rich Gibson & Schuyler Erle

Session 1: (800-8:15) “What successes have you had in your classroom?” (Individual, Pair, Share)Session 2: (8:15-8:30) Driving Question, using the Scope and Sequence to create a driving question - Session 3: (8:30-8:50) What does Google have to offer and what we will need to know for this program? (Google Search, Image Search, Videos, Maps, News, Gmail, More, and Even More) Session 4: (8:50-11:00) Google Search, Image Search, Advance Search, Wonder Wheel, Timeline, Custom Search, Searching Created Maps

● Research your “driving question” and use Google Tools learned to gather information. You need a video, an image, some text, etc. Use the Google Planning tool to copy and paste information

Session 5: (11:00-11:15) Sample Google Map- Erie Canal- notice all parts includedSession 6: (11:15- 12:00) Building a Shared Google Map, using a driving question

● Vocabulary (placemark, views, Navigation Controls, Street View, Show/Hide, etc. See Google Maps User Guide)

● Adding text box, line, shape● Adding hyperlink● Embedding Video, image, animated gif

LUNCH 12:00- 1:00

Session 7: (1:00-1:45) Independent Activity- Creating your own GoogleSession 8: (1:45 2:00) Embedding Maps onto Blogs, Sharing Map to oetq@gmail.com Session 9: (2:00-2:30) Survey/ Close Out - ”How will you use Google Maps and tools in your classroom? (Individual, pair, share)