UPDATED: Slides from 7/9/15 SimpleK12.com webinar. An overview of Google's iOS offerings with a focus on the core apps used in my daily instructional life. Apps like Drive, Chrome, Earth, Voice, and Translate are detailed and all other Google iOS apps are mentioned briefly. The archived presentation with full audio can be found here: http://community.simplek12.com/scripts/student/webinars/view.asp?id=1065

1. Going Google: An Overview of
Google’s Mobile Apps
Simple K12.com webinar - 07/09/15
Chris Casal
Purveyor of Geekery, Scarsdale NY
@mr_casal
about.me/mrcasal

2. this will be iOS centric…

3. Google vs Apple
They may hate each other in public...
...But as far as I can tell they play quite nicely on my
iPad...

4. The apps
40+
Some iPhone specific
will run on iPad
Some obscure
orkut - listed on Google’s site but not available in App
Store
Coordinate - mobile workforce management
http://www.google.com/mobile/ios/

5. Google
iOS Apps

6. Google
iOS Apps

7. Google
iOS Apps

8. My Google Apps

9. My Go-To Google Apps
Drive & Chrome
live on my Dock for constant use
Google Voice
iPhone app installed on my iPad for communication
Google Earth - it’s just awesome
Wikipedia integration for location info
Google Translate - not perfect but a great aid & tool for
teaching language, grammar, etc

10. Drive
View your entire
“Drive”

11. Drive
View your entire
“Drive”
Create & edit
Documents &
Spreadsheets
View & share all files

12. Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Drive launches the
individual file-type
apps
Create & edit Documents,
Spreadsheets
&
Presentations
View, edit & share all files

13. “Recent tabs” menu
See what tabs you have
opened on other
devices you are signed
in to Chrome on...
Chrome

14. Send & recieve
texts from iOS
app (voice dial
on iPhone too)
Voice

15. http://google-earth.en.softonic.com/iphone/video/google-earth-google-earth-for-ios-demo-4446
Earth

16. http://google-earth.en.softonic.com/iphone/video/google-earth-google-earth-for-ios-demo-4446
Earth

17. Translate
Disclaimer: Google isn’t “the best at translating” but its helpful & a great reference (ie: ESL purposes)
Translate between
many languages...
... a lot of audio
translation available too

18. Translate
Disclaimer: Google isn’t “the best at translating” but its helpful & a great reference for ESL purposes
Keeps a record of
recent translations and
allows for “favorites” via
the Starred function

19. The Basic Google
Google
search engine
site viewer
essentially a browser without an address bar
GMail
mail app
keep iOS Mail account & GMail account separate
open links in other Google apps - ie: Chrome

20. Google

21. Google
Easy to get pages open
in traditional browsers

22. GMail

23. GMail
Customize to allow links
to open in other Google
apps, not standard iOS
apps

24. Photos
New
Uploads and stores photos in almost native quality
fee for full resolution
Useful for backing up Camera Roll
admittedly I haven’t used it much…

25. Social Google
Google+
Getting better as a platform
Create Circles to customize your sharing
Hangouts
Fantastic tool for taking “Skyping” to the next level
Conference calls
Record calls

26. Utilitarian Google
Maps
never bad to have multiple navigational tools
Latitude
location sharing with others
track classes on trips
not recommended for school use on personal device
I see potential value but it creeps my out a bit...

27. Summary
Google is smart enough to not alienate it’s users
So is Apple
While the two companies may not play nice, Google’s
apps work just as well in iOS as they do anywhere else
No need to forgo one for the other, use both to
maximize value & potential of each platform

28. Contact
Christopher M. Casal
Technology Teacher
Heathcote School, Scarsdale NY
Twitter: @mr_casal
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www.mrcasal.com
slideshare.net/mr_casal
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