Teaching the Google Tool Set

Dr. Tom Seymour

Minot State UniversityMinot, North Dakota

tom.seymour@minotstateu.eduwww.seymour66.com/wordpress

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The Beginning

1995 - Sergey Brin is the tour guide for Larry Page at Stanford University

1996 – Brin and Page develop a search engine called BackRub

1997 – BackRub outgrows Stanford’s server

1998 – Google is chosen as a new name

1998 – PC magazine lists Google as the internet search engine of choice

From Garage to Mountain View

February1999 – Google outgrows the garage and moves to Palo Alto with 8 employees

August 1999 – Google moves to Mountain View

November 1999 – Google hires Chef Charlie Ayers, previously claim to fame was as catering for the Grateful Dead

Meteoric Rise

May 2000 – Google wins first Webby award

June 2000 – Google partners with Yahoo becoming the world’s largest search engine (just 2 years after incorporation)

September 2000 – Google searches are offered in 15 languages

December 2000 – Google Tool Bar is released

What is Google? (1)

www.google.com/alerts

Google Directory

• The directory itself can be found in the upper left hand corner of Google.com

• The directory has links to the many different tools and sites that are owned by Google

What is a Google account?

• A Google account is a personal user account that provides access to services provided by Google. A Google account functions as a single log-on across Google ; you need to create only a single Google account to access all Google services

Why do you need a Google account?

• While you can use many Google services, including its main search page without a Google account, other services require the user to establish an account and to be signed into the account in order to use that service. For example, to access your individual Google Docs documents, you need to be signed into your Google account; all your documents are stored under your account name.

Which Google services require a Google account

• Those services (what Google calls “products”) that store personal information are more likely to require the establishment of a Google account. They include Google Docs, Google Calendar, Gmail, Blogger, YouTube, and iGoogle

Tools to Explore

• My Top Five Choices for Education

• Earth

• Docs

• Blogger and Sites

• Picasa and Picnik

• Video and YouTubeGet all Google Tools...Use Google Shortcuts

Extension

Popular

Google Documents. Free web-

based office suite and data storage service offered by Google.

It allows creators to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real time with other users.

Using Web Based Processors

Why would one use a web based processor?

Well for one it is by far the easiest way to create and edit documents and then update or pull up the document on any other device such as a different lap top or smart phone around the world.

Spreadsheets

This Google feature is great in getting different input from other people because you can invite anyone to look and add to your spreadsheets. Also you can publish your spreadsheet to one person, a group or the world if desired.

Presentation

To make a powerful and inventive and eye catching presentation, this is where to find all the tools needed to make such a presentation.

Google Docs

Group ProjectsLesson Collaboration

Staff MeetingsResearch Papers - with Revisions

Surveys & QuizzesPublishing

• Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. (electronic calendar)

- became available on April 13, 2006

• Users are required to have a Google account in order to use the software.

• The interface of Google calendar was designed by Kevin Fox (who also designed Gmail and Google Reader)

• You can view, add, and drag-and-drop events from one date to another without reloading pages.

• Viewers can view the calendar by week, month, or agenda.

• The “quick add” allows the user to add calendar events by typing standard English phrases.

• While also on your Google account you can set the calendar to show a certain number of days.

• Events are stored online so you can view your calendar from any location that has internet access.

Calendar

• Is the easiest way to make information accessible to people who need quick up-to-date access.

• Creating a new page in Google sites is just the click of a button.

• Creating the site is as easy as loading a document, and you can control who has access to the site.

• Google sites doesn’t require HTML

• You can insert videos, docs, spreadsheets, presentations, photo slide shows, and calendars.

• Use the file cabinet to upload files up to 10 MB in size. Each Google Apps account receives at least 10GB of storage in Google sites.

Sites

About Gmail Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by

Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well via POP3 or IMAP protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.

Gmail uses Google's innovative technology to keep spam out of your inbox.

You can use Gmail search the same way you'd use Google Search, by entering a word (or multiple words) that appears anywhere within the message you want to locate.

Gmail groups all replies with their original message, creating a single conversation or thread.

Blogger

• Blog-publishing service• Many features

– Archives of posts– Offers multiple author support– Post time-stamping at publication

– http://senator-tom-seymour.blogspot.com/

Blogger

Provide ResourcesPost Lessons

Communication with Students

Digital PortfoliosCollaboration Opportunities

YouTube

• YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.

YouTube

Background Knowledge

Fantastic Subject Tutorials

Explore Complex Concepts

See more than One Perspective or Approach

What is it?iGoogle lets you customize your web browsers homepage. You can add gadgets and newsfeeds to your liking.

Indulge your creativity: Select a visual theme to decorate your homepage and drag and drop individual sections to rearrange the page however you'd like

Focus on your interests: Pick and choose from thousands of Google Gadgets to add games, news, pictures, weather and more to your homepage, all for free

Change your mind: Switch back and forth between your iGoogle page and Google's "Classic Homepage" through the link in the upper right-hand corner

Google+For Business

Google+ Definition

• Google+ is a social networking site powered by Google.

• Google+ allows businesses to create pages and develop relationships with prospects and customers on multiple levels.

• Google+ has a video chat that distinguishes it from other social networking sites.

• Google+ has emerged as a key player in the online marketing ecosystem.

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research

GOOGLE

About Google Chrome Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the

WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008.

According to Stat-Counter, Chrome is the third most widely used browser with 25% worldwide usage share of web browsers as of October 2011.

Google Chrome runs websites and applications with lightning speed.

Google Mobile Google mobile is available for any Blackberry,

iphone, or android phones. Allows you to find websites, local businesses,

product prices, and more in the palm of your hand.

Daily weather updates may also be viewed as well as travel advisories and road conditions.

Google Health

Will was discontinued as of January, 2012Allows people to access fitness and nutrition

information easilyPeople can make appointments with doctors

and physicians by finding their clinics and hospitals

The information available on Google Health may be downloaded from other data formats and sources

Google Maps

• Google maps is a web mapping service application that powers many map-based services, It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike (beta) or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world.

Translate

• Google Translate is a handy tool that allows you to pick from over thirty languages.

• An example here is from English to Hungarian.

Translation → ↑

Patents• A Google search engine that searches patents.

What is it?Social Network website brought to you by Google. This social network site is not getting as much attention as Facebook and MySpace. Its features are comparable to Facebook. You can add friends and join groups.

Just like real life Share with all or separated groups of friends, controlling who sees what. Connect with your best friend, your boss and your grandma with confidence.

Get the conversation startedChat, comment and talk with each group of your friends for a conversation you control.

Have fun!Easily share photos, videos and news. Join communities to discuss topics of your interest.

Google Code

Code.google.com

This site has developer tools, API’s and technical resourcesTo help create web apps, utilize open source code, and developAjax apps for Java and has reference information.

o Image organizer and viewer

o Used for organizing and editing digital

photos

o An integrated photo-sharing website

o And it’s free!

Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004.

Picnik is an online photo editing service. It is headquartered in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. Currently it can import photos natively from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search and also offers options to upload from a computer or to upload from a website. Make your photos perfect. Picnik gives you fast easy-to-

use tools to make your photos look their best.

o Auto-Fix o Rotateo Cropo Resize

o Exposureo Colorso Sharpeno Red-Eye

Picasa & Picnik

Increase Background KnowledgeIllustration of ConceptsCollect for Presentations

Create PresentationsStore Photos for Digital Portfolios (2GB)

Edit like a Pro!

Online Shopping Directory

Online Shopping Directory

• This website is like a online store. It gives you a chance to search for different gifts, such as: Family Fun, Gifts for Mom, Gifts for Dad, Riding Boots and Bread Pans.

• This website would be great for this time of year! You could do a lot of Christmas shopping on this site.

• Perfect for buy gifts for your loved ones!

SKETCHUPSketchUp is a 3D modeling program marketed by Google

and designed for architectural, civil, and mechanical engineers as well as filmmakers, game developers, and a variety of other design related professions.

You can use SketchUp to create 3D models of just about anything you can imagine, and it is easy to learn and use, and is designed primarily for the conceptual phase of design.

People use SketchUp to create architectural, mechanical, landscape, and woodworking models, as well as to design the levels in games, and the sets and storyboards for movies and television shows.

SketchUp can export models to a variety of 3D* and 2D formats. Many of the standard CAD programs can import and work with files that have been exported from SketchUp.

What’s Best About These Tools

• FREE

• Collaborative Environment

• Creative Environment

• Publish Your and Student’s Work

• Global

Talk

• Instant messaging service• Features

– Voicemail– Offline messages– Mobile device compatibility

Recipes

• Search for an ingredient, food, or event and then click ‘Recipes’.

• You can then refine your search by additional ingredients, cooking time, and even calories.

More Search Tools

• On the results page, click “Show search tools”.

• This gives you more search options including– Related searches– Sites with images– Translated foreign

pages

Refine Your Searches by Location

• Click “nearby” to limit results to pages that are … well … nearby.

• You can choose to see results either near your default location or near a custom location.

• You can also narrow results to the city, region, or state level.

Timeline

Shows you historical results for your search terms.

Wonder Wheel

• The Wonder Wheel shows search terms related to what you searched for.

• Navigate through the relevant key words and phrases to find more and more results.

• Click “Standard view” to view the original results.

Additional Options

• ‘Sites with images’ displays a handful of images per hit.

• ‘Related Searches’ shows sites that are related to your original search term.

• ‘Translated foreign pages’ looks for hits on pages written in languages other than English and then translates those pages for you.

Sidebar Options at Other Google Sites

images.google.com video.google.com

Google Image Swirl• Google Image Swirl

works a little like the Wonder Wheel for images.

• It clusters images based on their visual and semantic similarities.

image-swirl.googlelabs.com

Lock Safe Search

• Google now lets you lock Safe Search filtering.

• Go to google.com/preferences and click Lock Safe Search.

• This will filter explicit text and explicit images from your search results across over 200 Google sites.

• NOTE: You must do this in each web browser on your computer.

Checking that Safe Search is on

• If you see four colored balls in the top right corner of the results screen, Safe Search is on.

• You will also see “SafeSearch is Locked” under the search box.

• Note: No filter can block every explicit text or image.

GOOGLE EARTH

Historical Aerial Imagery

• Click the Clock icon to enable historic imagery.

• Drag the slider to year you want.• Suggestion: Warsaw , Poland (1935

and 1945)

GOOGLE NEWS

Google Fast Flipfastflip.googlelabs.co

m• Like a print

magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines, and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers.

• A mobile version is available for Android and the iPhone.

GOOGLE CHROME

google.com/chrome

• Based on WebKit, Chrome is a new-ish browser from Google.

• Like the Google homepage, the Chrome interface is minimalistic.

• Best features: security and speed.

YOUTUBE

YouTube Enhancements

• Maximum length increased from 10 to 15 minutes.

• “Jump to” using your keyboard.– Click the video.– Use you keyboard to

jump to a particular part of the video

• 0 = beginning• 1 = 10% in• … • 9 = 90% in

YouTube HTML5 Beta

youtube.com/html5• If you have Safari 4

or Google Chrome, you can choose to use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for most YouTube videos.

• This is an opt-in beta trial, so expect some bugs.

YouTube Leanback• Designed for large

screens [e.g., televisions], YouTube leanback autoplays videos in full screen and HD (when available).

• Looking for the search box? Just start typing.

• Press the down arrow on your keyboard to browse.

youtube.com/leanback

GOOGLE CODE AND APPS

Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office

• Like the collaborative features of Google Docs but prefer to keep using Microsoft Office?

• Cloud Connect is an Office plug-in that lets you share, backup, and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel documents.

• Windows only and requires Office 2003, 2007, or 2010.

tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect

Google Public DNS• One cause of slow page

loads, especially on complex web pages, is slow DNS lookups.

• Google has made their incredibly speedy DNS servers available to the public at no cost.

• For more information, visit code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

• Note: I would not recommend this for travelers—some hotel connections require you to use the hotel’s DNS.

code.google.com/speed/public-dns

Google Goggles

• Google Googles is a visual search application that lets you search the web by taking a picture with your Android’s or iPhone’s camera.

• For more information: google.com/mobile/goggles

• Oh, and it solves Sudoku puzzles too.

OLD (BUT COOL) STUFF

Google URL Shortener

goo.gl• Paste a long URL in

the box.• Google will convert

that URL to a goo.gl shortcut.

• Add .qr to the end of any goo.gl-shortened URL to convert it into a QR code.

Google Moderatorgoogle.com/moderator

• Google Moderator is a free tool that allows distributed communities to submit and vote on questions for talks, presentations, and events.

• Participants vote on whether or not the questions are ‘good.’

• Moderator automatically tallies the votes and displays the best questions first.

LIFE Photo Archive• Millions of

photographs from the LIFE archive are now included in Google Image Search.

• Browse the archive directly or add source:life to limit your search to the LIFE archive

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Google Dictionary• Google Dictionary lets

you search through the Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English.

• It includes not only definitions but also– Pronunciations,– Conjugations,– Related phrases, – Related languages, and– Usage examples.

• It works with English words as well as words from 20 other languages.

dictionary.google.com

Google Translate• Enter your text,

document, or URL in the text box and Google will [attempt to] translate that text into another language.

• Supports over 50 languages, including Latin.

• Also available for Android and iPhone: Live audio translation.

translate.google.com

Google Help

google.com/support• Google now has a

unified help center, categorized by activity [e.g., “searching, shopping, and browsing the web”]

• The search box at the top of the help center is actually a custom search engine that searches over 200 Google sites.

GOOGLE GRAVEYARD

Requiescat in Pace

• Web-only alerts from Google Alerts (June 2010)

• Google Wave (August 2010)

• Google 411 (Nov 2010)

• Messages, files, and pages in Google Groups (2011)

• Google Desktop (?)

FreeFoto.com

KEEPING UP

Google Announcements

For more information about what’s new and what’s next at Google, I recommend visiting the following sites:

– Google Newwww.google.com/newproducts

– Google Labslabs.google.com

– Google Bloggoogleblog.blogspot.com

– Google Operating Systemgooglesystem.blogspot.com

References

• www.slideshare.net• Keeping up with the Googlebots – Patrick

Douglas Crispen, Ed.D – www.NetSquirrel.com• http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/• Desiree Caskey SlideShare Presentation