Google for Educators Overview

Tools and Strategies for Educational Innovation

Lucy Gray

Lead Technology Coach

Urban Education Institute

The University of Chicago

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I♥Google

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New York Google Teachers Academy

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Google’s Mission

“Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible

and useful.”

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Google Philosophy

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.

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Google Philosophy

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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Ideas worth replicating...

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A video is worth 1000 words...

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Questions that come to mind...

How can we use these tools for our own professional productivity?

How can we incorporate these into our own schools?

What can schools learn from innovative businesses?

What are WE doing differently?

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Google For Educators Sitehttp://www.google.com/educators/index.html

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Features

Recent Projects and News

The Infinite Thinking Machine

Teacher Community

Classroom Activities

Classroom Posters

Tools for Your Classroom

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Recent Projects and News

Election Tools for Teachers

Google Education Resources

GeoEducation

Using Docs in the Classroom

Google Celebrates Earth Day 2008

Doodle 4 Google

Open Source Contest

Geography Awareness Week

Weekly Reader and Google Docs

Project Spectrum

International Cleanup Weekend

Google Lunar Xprize Educational Content

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Infinite Thinking Machinehttp://www.infinitethinking.org/

A weblog sponsored by WestEd and Google

“Internet T.V. shows” found also in iTunes and Google Video

Concrete examples of innovation in education

7 contributors

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Teacher Communityhttp://www.google.com/educators/community.html

A Google Group for all teachers

Participate in threaded discussions

Network with other educators

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Classroom Activitieshttp://www.google.com/educators/activities.html

Classroom Activities

Exemplary Lessons

NECC Presentations

Computer Science Unplugged

Google Lit Trips

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Classroom Postershttp://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

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Tools for Your Classroomhttp://www.google.com/educators/tools.html

Book Search

Earth

Maps

News

iGoogle

Web Search

Blogger

Calendar

Docs

Groups

Page Creator

Picasa

SketchUp

Google Apps Education Edition

Custom Search Engine

Google Notebook

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Google Sites

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Tools for Your Classroom

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Book Searchhttp://books.google.com/

“Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them.”

About Google Book Search

Add Google Book Search to your site

Google Book Search - News & Views

Explore Shakespeare with Google

My Library

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Earthhttp://earth.google.com/

Satellite imagery of the Earth that includes layers of information

Content partners include Discovery Education, National Geographic, Wikipedia

Still pictures

Share files

Google Earth

Google Earth Community

Teacher Meme

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Mapshttp://maps.google.com/

Google Maps

Searchable

Directions

Street View

My Maps

Google Maps User Guide

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Newshttp://news.google.com/

Search thousands of publications

Use in conjunction with Google Reader via RSS feed

Archives

Custom news searches and personalized news page

Blog search

Comments by people in the

Quotes

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Web Searchhttp://www.google.co.uk/help/features.html

Define

File Type

Currency Conversion

Calculator

Track Packages

Google Help: Search Features

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Docs & Spreadsheetshttp://docs.google.com/

Documents, spreadsheets AND presentations

Import and export using a variety of file types

Share and publish files

Open files sent in Gmail directly in Docs & Spreadsheets

Examples:

Global Warming Project

IL-TCE Volunteer Documentation

ADE NECC proposals

NKO Schedule

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Custom Search Enginehttp://www.google.com/coop/cse/

Formerly known as Google Co-op

Roll your own search engine using pre-selected sites

Embed on your website and blog

Bookmark sites directly to list of web sites

Others can can contribute to the web sites search

Examples:

My Search Engines

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Google Apps - Education Editionhttp://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html

Google Apps for Education

Customizable

Includes:

Gmail

Google Talk

Google Calendar

Google Page Creator

Google Start Page

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Next Steps

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Strategies for success

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

Make generic student accounts for projects

Advocate and educate in your district about the power of these tools

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Recommended Resources

The 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

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Blog: http://lucygray.org

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