Google Tools: It's More than a Search Engine

Google is the world’s most popular search engine… but it is so much more! Explore the wide variety of Google applications that teachers are quickly adding to their toolboxes. Teachers are using these tools to search the Internet more efficiently, stay current with curriculum content, and collaborate with colleagues. Explore iGoogle, Google Gadgets, Google Reader, Google Notebook, and more. 

Create a Google account

Google Search (more>> images, books, blogs, news, scholar, video, etc.)

Google Reader

• Subscribe to the sites, journals, blogs you like best and get notified when they have updated their site, take a look at the intro on the Google reader page
• sign up for RSS and XML feeds
• http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english- Simplified definition of RSS

Google Earth

• You have all heard of it, and explore classroom applications

Gmail 

Google Maps 

Blogger 

Google Docs and Spreadsheets 

Google Calendar

What else can Google do?

Calculator

Dictionary

measurement conversions

weather

• Picasa
• iDesktop

Resources

• TIP Sheets