Social Media Driving Licence

Google: more than just a search engineAnge FitzpatrickAndy Priestner

Week 6

• Understand Google’s suite of web tools

• Explore cloud storage

• Investigate YouTube as an educational tool

• Set up G+ and try Hangouts

Session objectives

• It underpins most web usage

• We used it to create the SMDL

• It’s where most of us find the content we wish to share

• Confidence using Google’s web tools is essential for both professional and personal social media

Wait, why is Google on the SMDL?

Exercise: Sketch my Google

Working in the cloudcloud computing n.

the use of networked facilities for the storage and processing of data rather than a user's local computer, access to data or services typically being via the Internet

Frank the Dog

Google Drive

• Create documents, spreadsheets, forms and presentations• Upload MS Office files• Organise your documents into folders• Share items with others, collaborate and edit in real time• 15GB of upload storage, with unlimited storage of items created in Drive

Google Dashboard:Drive

Hands on exercise

• Create a document, name it and add content• Share the document with your neighbour• Edit your neighbour’s document

Over to you!

• Go to http://bit.ly/SMDLfairytale • Open ‘An SMDL Fairy Tale’• Add text • Add a comment

Over to you!

• Great for creating and sharing calendars with colleagues• Emails reminders about meetings and events• Can toggle specific calendars on and off

Google Dashboard:Calendar

“I can access work and personal calendars wherever I am”

• 5 million unique Street View images• Satellite images are updated as quickly as every 2 weeks• If the Google car can’t reach a location, a Google pushbike does!

Google Dashboard:Maps

“I made an interactive Google Map for my Scout troop’s hike, so parents could follow our route”

• A free email service with lots of storage space• Has a powerful search function• Integrates well with other tools like Drive• Can be configured to access your email offline• Available on your mobile• You can un-send a message, as long as the recipient hasn’t opened it!

Google Dashboard:Gmail

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• Supports 80 languages• Produces good translations into English• Strong on European languages• Translate directly from the search box• Useful for getting a sense of a phrase on the fly

Google Dashboard:Translate

Break: see you in 5!

•Allows you to upload your own, or browse content create by others• 100 hours of content loaded every minute• 78% of Americans have watched a video online, 50% of them have watched an educational video• How-to and educational videos are the second and third most popular category on YouTube•Perfect for teaching skills better seen than described

Google Dashboard:YouTube

Hands on exercise

Origami Challenge!

Google Dashboard:G+

Remember this?

Round 1: Geography

1. China2. India3. Facebook4. Tencent5. What’s App6. USA7. Google+8. Indonesia9. LinkedIn10. Twitter

• A social network and identity service • +1 button is used 5 billion times a day• Having a G+ profile boosts your Google

ranking• You can organise your social stream into

circles• Circles allow you to stratify content

Google Dashboard:G+

Hands on exercise

Remember this guy?

Visitors & Residents

Read, Watch, Listen

• Read the Week 6 summary on the blog

• Watch the Week 6 playlist on YouTube

• Listen to the Week 6 podcast on Audioboo

Engage

• Blog about one of the Google tools we’ve looked at today

• Promote your blogpost on Twitter

• Curate a playlist on YouTube and share on Twitter or G+

Before next week…

• Set up a Flickr account

• Bring a fun picture that you own

Google - Tasks

IMAGE CREDITS

Flickr Creative Commons:Hands-on exercise: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adikos/4444061098/AdikosYouTube: https://www.flickr.com/photos/23963573@N08/3606295240/

redsoul300Cat Videos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hertzen/5543037037 Viktor

HertzenGlobe: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ironrodart/4132833849/ IronRodArt -

Royce BairRoman: https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelloudon/4457922087 ThornypupOrigami: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kwl/5547154725 kennymatic

Other :Before Google: http://www.shoeboxblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/life-before-google-500x496.jpgClaudia: https://www.flickr.com/photos/marshables/Ange: https://www.flickr.com/photos/marshables/

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