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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Having attended Dr. Howie DiBlasi's session today on Google Secrets for the Classroom, I found some very interesting resources that our teachers can use. Here are my notes and the files he gave to us. Please peruse when you have time and I am hoping to share it more formally with others when I get back to school in the Fall.

__Google Secrets for the Classroom__
Presenter: Dr. Howie DiBlasi Licensed with Creative Commons

Dr. Howie Website: www.drhowie.com
 * Classroom Teacher for 20 years
 * Opened up a Computer Store
 * Commercial: 1984

Files Used to Guide the Session:



Do you know how to work the following: Search for a type of document Advanced Search Button Wonder Wheel Timeline Name 6 Stop words 5 Alternatives to Google Factbytes Quintera Curl Google Custom Search Engine Google Alerts Transliteration of the Language Tools Google Earth and Maps Google Mash Up-Drill Earth Sketch Up Google Sight Seeing Google Earth Google Moon Google Mars Google Sky Google Reader Blogger Google Images Google Directory Google Labs Google Sites Nole Orchid iGoogle Scholarly Search Book Search Product Search Patent Search Google Trends Google Research

Need a Gmail Account to access these activities todayWe will be looking at different items and we are going to be doing a collaborative Mash-up Watched a Discovery Commercial: Boom-diyadda Referred to the 10 Fun Facts about Google E therpad-Google bought it and threw the source code away because they were competitors Now use Typewith.me
 * Advertises 42 different shows on Discovery
 * Great example of a Mash-Up
 * First Google Doodle Man-Sign that Google was done
 * Check it out for great Google facts
 * Great to use as a collaboration tool with students within class or between classrooms
 * Sign on using a color
 * Use the Time Slider tool to go back in time
 * Chat: Provide some ground rules and expectations
 * Advantages:
 * Kids don't need a login and password
 * Name is associated by color
 * No prep on my part
 * 1) Go to Typewith.me
 * 2) Define the naming protocol
 * 3) keeps a tiny url
 * 4) Share the url with students

ePals has free emailYou monitor it and ePal monitors it Google Guide (see #3, page 2) See some Special Commands for Google (there are 28 of them)
 * Time
 * Math functions
 * Weather
 * Population
 * Money Conversions
 * Food

Search Google for specific filetypes (You can search 12 different filetypes)
 * naming convention: "topic" filetype:pdf
 * example: "21st Century Learning filetype:ppt

Advanced Google Search Google Search: Wonder Wheel Google Search: Timeline STOPWORDS-Google doesn't look for these and throws these out Great Alternatives to Google
 * Compare and contrast with understandings on the same topic from another country
 * Great use for a debate
 * See pages 6 on Google Advanced Search
 * Helps narrow down the topic
 * You can continue to click on the different topics to use
 * You can click on the timeline and get a little more of a reference point about your topic
 * 1) www.factbites.com
 * 2) www.cuil.com
 * 3) www.clusty.com
 * 4) www.quintura.com
 * 5) www.dogpile.com

Custom Search Engines: Where you give 10 websites that you have pre-chosen for students to research on a specific topic Google Alerts Way Back Machine: Place where you can put a url in and you can see all the different versions of that website Google Transliteration: Not very good with language translation...sometimes it doesn't actually recognize the language
 * You can use this feature to read other foreign language sites
 * battlefish is Yahoo's Transliteration

Google MapsUses in the classroom: Great Mashup: US Airways: Took an audio piece and used Google Earth and Google Maps, did an illustration of the plane, showed the birds hitting it, aligned the visual with the audio, the text was helpful You can subscribe to Google Sightseeing...see page 12 Google MoonGoogle MarsGoogle Sky
 * 1) Present on your hometown
 * 2) Track your trip and save it as a .kmz file
 * 3) Virtual Push Pins-put in a coordinate and show where it is...you can put in videos, images, links
 * 4) Create a field trip
 * 5) Internet Safety
 * 6) This is what it looked like back then and what does it look like today?
 * 7) Lewis and Clark: Group project where you can assign different aspects of the trip to combine and then reenact the trip

Google ReaderPuts all of your resources into a specific repository Difference between Google and Yahoo?Yahoo is a directory.Google uses bots and grabs according to keywords. Google Directory: Web organized into categories Google Labs: Great ideas in betaImage SwirlFast Flip: Blindingly fast overviews of headline pages of top newspapers. Great Twitter Uses in Education
 * 1) Use Twitter to post Assignments to parents
 * 2) Use Twitter for ITRTs and people can ask questions about tech questions
 * 3) Have several Twitter accounts like one for parents, one for students, and one for personal usage

Google Books vs. Google ScholarsGoogle Scholarly: Great for academic research, looks at mostly universities and educational institutions in the US