Google Tools for Schools

WSWHE BOCES January 21, 2010 Saratoga Spring, NY Polly-Alida Farrington

Set up a Google Account

Google 411

Search Tips

Search Options Sidebar

Latest & Real Time Results

Wonder Wheel

Timeline

Search Options - Images

Similar Images

Life Magazine Photos

Image Swirl (Google Labs)

Google Sets (Google Labs)

http://labs.google.com/sets/

Google Trends (Google Labs)

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

Music Search

Social Search (Google Labs)

Social Search (Google Labs)

Social Search (Google Labs)

Twitter Search Results - Firefox Greasemonkey Addon

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43451

Google Cloudlet – FF addon

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9943

Google Custom Search

Google Custom Search

KidRex

Numbers & Data

A simple calculation.…

A bit more complex

“It puts complicated calculations within reach of every student, and moves the focus from units to scientific reasoning.” (Kristen Larson - Western Washington University)

Hubble Constant!

Public Data

Public Data – embed code

Google Squared

Fusion Tables (Google Labs)

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

https://services.google.com/inquiry/scholar_email

Legal Opinions

Google Books

http://books.google.com/googlebooks/midterms.html

Full Text Options

Embeddable Books

Embedded Book

Add to Your Library

Add Tags, Notes, Reviews

Search Within YOUR Library

Share your collection

Add to iGoogle

Google News Timeline

Google News

Add a Section

Quotes

Search within Quotes Set

Image View

Easy limits by date

News Archives - Timeline

Really Old News!

News Updates

Updates via RSS

iGoogle

Google Reader

An RSS Feed Reader

Sharing Items

Shared Items – Public Page

Create a Widget of Shared Items

Widget added to a blog

Google Docs

Feedback Form

Feedback Form Results

Create New Form

Multiple Pages & Paths

Tons of Templates

Google Sites

Fast, flexible, free

Google Sites

http://sites.google.com/site/scrlctwitter/

Create a Site

Easy to Edit

Add Stuff!

Create a New Page

Dashboard Page - Gadgets

Announcements Page

Announcements Widget

Research Project Page

Calendar

Picasa

Tags and more

Picasa - Collages

Finds Faces

Google Maps

Restaurants – Ratings & Cuisine

Real Estate – 4 sale, rent, foreclosure

Traffic

Explore

Terrain

Augmented Reality

A new way to interact with surroundings

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dvdmerwe/4051151050/

Creating Custom Maps

Export to Google Earth

Explore Related Info - Google Earth

http://www.googlelittrips.org/

GoogleLitTrips.org

GoogleLitTrips.org

Google Earth

World Events

Photos and Background Info

Lake Chad - Then

Lake Chad - Now

Historic Map Overlays

Measure Distances

Explore the Oceans

And the Sky

And Mars

Blogger

Google Groups

Google Sketchup

Questions?

Ideas?

Share!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejake/286030741/

Thank you!

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