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Google for Educators
Tina Sartori
Google’s Mission Statement
Google's mission is to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible and
useful.
Larry Page & Sergey BrinMy Heroes
Google Options
More…Even More
http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
Google for Educators
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
Gmail : Fast Searchable Email
Gmail Advantages:
•Free- no invite needed
•Storage 2 gig and growing
•Online File Storage
•Searchable
Calendar: Organize and Share Events
Calendar Advantages:• Multiple Calendars
• Shared Calendars• Search Public Events• 17 Languages• Free & Searchable
Docs, Presentation & Spreadsheets
Docs, Presentation &Spreadsheets
Advantages:• Use our online editor to format documents, spell-check and more.• Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text. Download documents to your desktop as Word, PDF and more. • View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version. • Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address. Edit documents online with whomever you choose.
Images Picaso & Videos
Images
Picaso
Videos
Advantages:
• Fully searchable
• Share images
• Organize images• Free & Searchable
Alerts: Email Updates
Alerts Advantages
• Easy to set up• Very handy to keep
track of particular topics
• Can be set to day, week or month notices
• Free & Searchable
Earth & Maps
Earth
Maps
Advantages:• Explore places
• Use with GPS• 3D• Upgrades• Cell Integration• Virtual Field Trips• Around the World• Free & Searchable
Books & Scholar
Book
Scholar
Advantages:• Search only academics• Full Text books• Portable books• Library• Free & Searchable
Blogger: Fast Easy Fun
Blogger
Advantages
• So easy to set up and manage, even my mum has a blogger site!
• Excellent for teaching
• Good for students to set up an online journal
• Great range of layout templates
• No advertising
• Comments and many other features
• Everyone should have a blog!
News & Groups
NewsGroups
Advantages:• Aggregated• Searchable• Find answers• Tech support via groups• Current Events
Translate: View in other Languages
Translate Advantages:
• Search for pages in other languages
• All volunteer
• Use in language learning
Labs: Google’s Tech Playground
Labs Advantages:
• Stay current on new products
• Become part of the Beta groups
• Provide Google with feedback
Googling for PowerPoint
Advantages:
• Simply add filetype:ppt to your search term
• Ready to use content
• Limit search to ppt
• Ranking
• View in browser or download
Thank you!
Contact Information
Tina Sartori
Computrac
Vice President Training
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.compu-trac.com
Training Site: www.computractrainer.com