How much of Google have you used in your teaching life? Did you know that there are numerous Google products that can make your life easier and your classes more lively? This presentation from the webinar series at www.beyondteaching.com brings you up-to-date with the latest from Google. Of course, "latest" is as good as yesterday! So, feel free to add more recent stuff in your comments...

1. Google for your Class!
A Teacher’s Guide
February 22, 2013
Anirudh Phadke

2. Google Search

3. List other products from Google

5. Google Apps for Education

6. Back to basics: Search

7. Back to basics: Search

8. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/x1brett/6707250233/sizes/o/in/photostream/

9. Want a PhD in Googling?
http://onlinephd.org/phd-in-googling/

10. A little more serious stuff with Search
• Search Challenge for your class
– Try this…
– More lessons at
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheduc
ation/lessons.html

11. http://books.google.com/

12. http://scholar.google.com/

13. Google Drive for your Class

14. Why use Google Docs?
Sharable
Simultaneous
users
Revision
history
Collaborate
with other
classes
On the cloud

15. Create your own Quiz!
• Pre-lesson quiz
• Knowing them better
• Online record of progress
• Parent interest/ response
• Anonymous feedback (honestly!)
• Surveys
Let’s try it LIVE!

16. Google Maps
• Not just for geography teachers!
– Latitude/ longitude
• Math lessons
– Distance between house and school
– Area of shapes (of a colony/ town)
– Compare cities in area
– Even heights using 3D tool!
• Science
– Physical visits and identify biodiversity and mark on map
• History
– Mark local historical places with event descriptions
• Art
– Paint a place and mark it on the map for sharing

17. Some existing Map uses
• Tracing literary trips:
http://www.googlelittrips.org/ (trace Akbar’s
route)
• Math lesson plans: http://edte.ch/blog/maths-
maps
• Connecting places with mentions on web:
http://www.placeopedia.com
• More general stuff at
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
• Plant & Animal species at
http://www.usanpn.org/files/viz/index.html#

18. More advanced stuff…
• MapsGL
– 3D imagery of buildings
– Integrated Street View
• Google Earth
– http://www.google.co.in/earth/educators/

19. By the way…

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A Teacher’s Guide
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