Google: Considerations for Educators

George SiemensUniversity of Manitoba

Presented to Contact NorthApril 25, 2008

Google: as an ideology

Google: as a company

Google: as an identity

Crash course in Google history

Google has altered...

How we find information

What we do with information

Where we store information

How we interact with others around information

How does Google make $$?

Google options for Organizations

Google Apps

Google Sites

What does Google offer?

Search

Alerts

Search

Earth

Search

Desktop Search

Search

Images

Search

Maps

Search

Notebook

Search

Scholar

Search

Toolbar

Search

BookSearch

Search

(and misc options like 411, product, finance, etc)

Search

Communicate/collaborate

Blogger

Communicate/collaborate

Gmail

Communicate/collaborate

Orkut

Communicate/collaborate

Groups

Communicate/collaborate

Docs

Communicate/collaborate

Picasa

Communicate/collaborate

Reader

Communicate/collaborate

Calendar

Communicate/collaborate

iGoogle

Communicate/collaborate

Talk

Communicate/collaborate

YouTube

Communicate/collaborate

SketchUp

Communicate/collaborate

Mobile

MapsSMS

Mobile access

Mobile

On your computer

Google PackWeb AcceleratorDesktop Search

On your computer

Choices Google makes on our behalf...

...but where is this all going?

Google as the centre of the web

Google as media company

Three Stages

1. Google as “sensor” of trends

2. Google as “reactor” to trends

3. Google as “creator” of trends

Impact:Google as Microsoft of the web?

Future Considerations

“Many sites, one API”

Centralizing the decentralized web

Personalizing the impersonal web

Impact of Google on society

Privacy

Access

Identity

Revolution?

A changed game.

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