Random Ramblings

Presented Google applications today to my teachers. I don’t know if it was the fact that we were off yesterday for a snow day or that they were bored out of their minds, but all the grades were pretty quiet. For the sake of my ego, I’m going with they were tired ;o)

Here’s a copy of my presentation.

Until next time ~ Danita

Cross Curricular and Across the K-12 World with Google Earth with Cindy Lane

Lane.cindy@gmail.com

www.googleearthgoods.pbwiki.com

Langwitches notes from same session – GREAT notes!

• password for wiki is Cindylane
• thanks to Kathy for ustreaming the session
• most in audience know a bit about Google Earth
• geogreeting.com
  • create spelling words
  • can find and graph words from all over world
  • shows letters on world map
  • good for elementary school
• Math
  • instant chart in Excel highlight data and then F11
  • KMZ file in geometry
    • measure in smoots (5 ft 7 in)
    • measure polygons
    • go to tools and click on ruler
    • measure a line or a path
    • can change from miles to yards to smoots
• Science
  • can link live volcano pics into googleearth
• Language Arts
  • Jerome Berg
    • Lit trips
  • www.googlelittrips.com
• Social Studies
  • insert image from United Streaming
  • added buttons on top of each image to make a writing assignment
  • on wiki
  • GREAT idea!!
  • go into Google Earth to see all the Civil War battles
  • each one has info and has a hyperlink of the battles
  • can view where the battle actually occurred
• Foreign Language
  • on youtube using google earth in the foreign language classroom
• KMZ or KML
  • Google Earth Community
  • Google – more – even more -earth – Google Earth community on left hand side
    • click on GE community
    • click on education
      • 11000 posts
• Google – advanced search – kml or kmz file format
  • automatically opens in Google Earth
  • make sure you SAVE so you don’t have to go hunt again
  • KMZ is a zip file
  • KML is a language (one file)
• All Google Earth images are at oldest 3 to 4 years
• Peggy White also has a similar presentation – all info is on Cindy’s pbwiki
• basic navigation tips
  • GD and GE links in pbwiki
  • make a folder first

Until next time ~ Danita

Patrick Crispin  Googlebots

http://netsquirrel.com

http://netsquirrel.com/powerpoint/complete.html

Google 201 workshop

                Google’s page rank algorithm

• Google on the road
  • 1-800-goog-411
  • Will do cross streets
  • Will text message the directions
• Google Maps
  • http://maps.google.com
  • Map is clickable and dragable
  • Map, satellite, and terrain view
  • Also available on cell phone
    • google.com/gmm
    • http://mobile.google.com

• Book Search
  • http://books.google.com
• Google Scholar
  • http://scholar.google.com
  • Review of journal articles
• News
  • http://news.google.com
  • News search
• Notebook
  • Requires google account
  • http://google.com/notebook
  • Notebooks are shareable
  • Click on star to save it
• Google for Educators
  • http://google.com/educators
• Google Q & A
  • What is the currency of Australia?
  • Encyclopedia facts
• Google calculator
  • Type in math problem and google will answer
    • 2+2
  • Will also do measurements
  • And a dictionary
    • Define:
  • Weather
    • Weather:27330
  • Movie
    • Movie:27330
• Google productivity
  • Google account not the same as gmail
  • Go to http://google.com/accounts
• Pages
  • http://pages.google.com
• Docs and spreadsheets
  • http://docs.google.com