Google Tools

Presenter: Rick Bell ~ Room 122

Level: Intermediate

Google is the world’s most popular search engine… but it is so much more!

Explore the wide variety of Google tools that teachers are quickly adding to

their toolboxes. Explore iGoogle, Google Gadgets, Google Reader, Google

Notebook, and if possible, more.

Workshop links, resources, and/or materials:

Google tools.ppt 

Create a Google account

Google Notebook 

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 page creator 

Mailinator 

Google Docs and Spreadsheets 

What else can Google do?

Calculator

Dictionary

measurement conversions

weather

TIP sheets