If you have a club, team or any type of group that you need to communicate with – consider creating a Google Group. Google Groups allows you to manage and archive the mailing list for your group. You can share files, create shared webpages within your group, and archive posts. Group members can create profiles [...]
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Tech Tip Tuesday – RSS and Google Reader
Stop spending hours looking for information online – have the information come to you. How can make this happen? By using Google Reader and RSS What is RSS? RSS (real simple syndication) is the ability to “subscribe” to changes made on a website or blog. (Click here to view a video: RSS in Plain English) First, you need [...]
Tech Tip Tuesday – iGoogle Gadgets
Following Google’s philosophy of making the information you want readily available to you, iGoogle offers many different gadgets and themes to customize your iGoogle home page. Here’s a look at what we’ve done with ours. From Mary Fran: I really like a quick snapshot of the time and weather. That’s why Date & Time and [...]
Tech Tip Tuesday – Google Presentations
Google Presentation is not quite robust a presentation program as PowerPoint or Keynote but students can create their entire presentation online and work on it with group members or access it from home/school. But I have found the REAL POWER of Google Presentations is when you use the online presentation format. Instead of my students [...]
Tech Tip Tuesday – Advanced Google Search
Advanced Search – Part 4 Sometimes finding the information you need on the Internet is challenging. You are not alone. According to the World Internet stats, there are 1.4 billion Internet users and there are over 200,000 websites registered EACH day. Heck -there are 14,672,685 individual pages on Wikipedia alone!It can overwhelming when you discover [...]
Tech Tip Tuesday – Google Specialized Search
Specialized Search – Part 3 This next set of tips is great to integrate into social studies curriculum. It’ll help your students find primary sources when doing research, and have a better appreciation for just where the events took place. view:timeline When you use view:timeline, your results are broken down into chronologically listed dates. You [...]
Tech Tip Tuesday – Google Search Features
Google Search Features – Part 2 Did you know that Google has many special features that will allow you to easily get information you need right from the search bar? Here a few you might find useful: Weather: Want to know what the weather is in your favorite city? Simply type “weather” followed by the [...]
Tech Tip Tuesday – Basic Google Search
Teaching Your Students About Search – Part 1 Google offers many different tools to help “organize the the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” however Google is primarily recognized as a “search engine.” While searching seems like a natural skill to have, a user can improve their results by knowing a few [...]
Tech Tip Tuesday
This school year, my fellow Google Certfied Teacher MaryFran Lynch and I began a weekly email newsletter to introduce our staff to all the great tools and features of the Wonderful World of Google. September 2008: Welcome back to school and to the inauguration of Tech Tip Tuesday. It is our hope that over the [...]
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