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
Web History- whenever you are logged into your Google account, a search history will be kept of your Google searches
iGoogle- allows you to customize your Google search page with a theme and add gadgets
- 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
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You have all heard of it, and explore classroom applications
What else can Google do?
Calculator
Dictionary
measurement conversions
weather
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