Teaching the Google Tool
Set
Dr. Tom Seymour
Minot State University
Minot, North Dakota
tom.seymour@minotstateu.edu
www.seymour66.com/wordpress
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1995 - Sergey Brin is the tour guide for
Larry Page at Stanford University
 1996 – Brin and Page develop a search
engine called BackRub
 1997 – BackRub outgrows Stanford’s
server
 1998 – Google is chosen as a new name
 1998 – PC magazine lists Google as the
internet search engine of choice
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February1999 – Google outgrows the
garage and moves to Palo Alto with 8
employees
 August 1999 – Google moves to
Mountain View
 November 1999 – Google hires Chef
Charlie Ayers, previously claim to fame
was as catering for the Grateful Dead
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May 2000 – Google wins first Webby
award
 June 2000 – Google partners with Yahoo
becoming the world’s largest search
engine (just 2 years after incorporation)
 September 2000 – Google searches are
offered in 15 languages
 December 2000 – Google Tool Bar is
released
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What is Google? (1)
www.google.com/alerts
Google Directory
• The directory itself can be found in the upper
left hand corner of Google.com
• The directory has links to the many different
tools and sites that are owned by Google
What is a Google account?
• A Google account is a personal user account
that provides access to services provided by
Google. A Google account functions as a single
log-on across Google ; you need to create only
a single Google account to access all Google
services
Why do you need a Google account?
• While you can use many Google services,
including its main search page without a
Google account, other services require the
user to establish an account and to be signed
into the account in order to use that service.
For example, to access your individual Google
Docs documents, you need to be signed into
your Google account; all your documents are
stored under your account name.
Which Google services require a
Google account
• Those services (what Google calls “products”)
that store personal information are more likely
to require the establishment of a Google
account. They include Google Docs, Google
Calendar, Gmail, Blogger, YouTube, and
iGoogle
Tools to Explore
• My Top Five Choices for Education
• Earth
• Docs
• Blogger and Sites
• Picasa and Picnik
• Video and YouTube
Get all Google Tools...Use Google Shortcuts Extension
Popular
Google Documents.
 Free webbased office
suite and data
storage service
offered by
Google.
 It allows
creators to
create and
edit
documents
online while
collaborating
in real time
with other
users.
Why would one use a web based processor?
Well for one it is by far the easiest way to create and edit
documents and then update or pull up the document on any
other device such as a different lap top or smart phone
around the world.
Using Web Based
Processors
This Google feature is great in getting different input from
other people because you can invite anyone to look and add
to your spreadsheets. Also you can publish your spreadsheet
to one person, a group or the world if desired.
Spreadsheets
To make a powerful and inventive and eye catching
presentation, this is where to find all the tools needed to
make such a presentation.
Presentation
Google Docs
Group Projects
Lesson Collaboration
Staff Meetings
Research Papers - with Revisions
Surveys & Quizzes
Publishing
Calendar
• Google Calendar is a free time-management web
application offered by Google. (electronic
calendar)
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Users are required to have a Google account in order to
use the software.
The interface of Google calendar was designed by
Kevin Fox (who also designed Gmail and Google
Reader)
You can view, add, and drag-and-drop events from one
date to another without reloading pages.
Viewers can view the calendar by week, month, or
agenda.
The “quick add” allows the user to add calendar events
by typing standard English phrases.
While also on your Google account you can set the
calendar to show a certain number of days.
Events are stored online so you can view your calendar
from any location that has internet access.
Sites
• Is the easiest way to make information
accessible to people who need quick up-todate access.
• Creating a new page in Google sites is just
the click of a button.
• Creating the site is as easy as loading a
document, and you can control who has
access to the site.
• Google sites doesn’t require HTML
• You can insert videos, docs, spreadsheets,
presentations, photo slide shows, and
calendars.
• Use the file cabinet to upload files up to 10
MB in size. Each Google Apps account
receives at least 10GB of storage in Google
sites.
About Gmail
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by
Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well via
POP3 or IMAP protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only
beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general
public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time.
The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along
with the rest of the Google Apps suite.
 Gmail uses Google's innovative technology to keep spam out of
your inbox.
 You can use Gmail search the same way you'd use Google Search,
by entering a word (or multiple words) that appears anywhere within
the message you want to locate.
 Gmail groups all replies with their original message, creating a
single conversation or thread.
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Blogger
• Blog-publishing service
• Many features
– Archives of posts
– Offers multiple author support
– Post time-stamping at publication
– http://senator-tom-seymour.blogspot.com/
Blogger
Provide Resources
Post Lessons
Communication with Students
Digital Portfolios
Collaboration Opportunities
YouTube
• YouTube is a videosharing website,
created by three former
PayPal employees in
February 2005, on
which users can upload,
view and share videos.
YouTube
Background Knowledge
Fantastic Subject Tutorials
Explore Complex Concepts
See more than One Perspective or Approach
What is it?
iGoogle lets you customize your web browsers homepage. You can add gadgets
and newsfeeds to your liking.
Indulge your creativity: Select a visual theme to decorate your homepage and
drag and drop individual sections to rearrange the page however you'd like
Focus on your interests: Pick and choose from thousands of Google Gadgets to
add games, news, pictures, weather and more to your homepage, all for free
Change your mind: Switch back and forth between your iGoogle page and
Google's "Classic Homepage" through the link in the upper right-hand corner
Google+
For Business
Google+ Definition
• Google+ is a social networking site powered
by Google.
• Google+ allows businesses to create pages
and develop relationships with prospects and
customers on multiple levels.
• Google+ has a video chat that distinguishes it
from other social networking sites.
• Google+ has emerged as a key player in the
online marketing ecosystem.
What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search
for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search
across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses,
books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic
publishers, professional societies, online repositories,
universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps
you find relevant work across the world of scholarly
research
About Google Chrome
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Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the
WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for
Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable
release was on December 11, 2008.
According to Stat-Counter, Chrome is the third most widely used
browser with 25% worldwide usage share of web browsers as of
October 2011.
Google Chrome runs websites and applications with lightning speed.
Google Mobile
 Google mobile is available for any Blackberry,
iphone, or android phones.
 Allows you to find websites, local businesses,
product prices, and more in the palm of your
hand.
 Daily weather updates may also be viewed as
well as travel advisories and road conditions.
Google Health
Will was discontinued as of January, 2012
Allows people to access fitness and nutrition
information easily
People can make appointments with doctors
and physicians by finding their clinics and
hospitals
The information available on Google Health
may be downloaded from other data formats
and sources
Google Maps
• Google maps is a web
mapping service
application that powers
many map-based
services, It offers street
maps, a route planner for
traveling by foot, car, bike
(beta) or public transport
and an urban business
locator for numerous
countries around the
world.
Translate
• Google Translate is a handy tool that allows you to
pick from over thirty languages.
• An example here is from English to Hungarian.
Translation
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Patents
• A Google search engine that searches patents.
What is it?
Social Network website brought to you by Google. This social network site is
not getting as much attention as Facebook and MySpace. Its features are
comparable to Facebook. You can add friends and join groups.
Just like real life
Share with all or separated groups of friends, controlling who sees what.
Connect with your best friend, your boss and your grandma with confidence.
Get the conversation started
Chat, comment and talk with each group of your friends for a conversation
you control.
Have fun!
Easily share photos, videos and news. Join communities to discuss topics of
your interest.
Google Code
Code.google.com
This site has developer tools, API’s and technical resources
To help create web apps, utilize open source code, and develop
Ajax apps for Java and has reference information.
Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and
editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website,
originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004.
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Image organizer and viewer
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Used for organizing and editing digital photos
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An integrated photo-sharing website
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And it’s free!
Picnik is an online photo editing service. It is headquartered in Downtown
Seattle, Washington, United States. Currently it can import photos natively
from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search and
also offers options to upload from a computer or to upload from a website.
 Make your photos perfect. Picnik gives you fast easy-to-use tools
to make your photos look their best.
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Auto-Fix
Rotate
Crop
Resize
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Exposure
Colors
Sharpen
Red-Eye
Picasa & Picnik
Increase Background Knowledge
Illustration of Concepts
Collect for Presentations
Create Presentations
Store Photos for Digital Portfolios (2GB)
Edit like a Pro!
Online Shopping Directory
Online Shopping Directory
• This website is like a online store. It gives you
a chance to search for different gifts, such as:
Family Fun, Gifts for Mom, Gifts for Dad,
Riding Boots and Bread Pans.
• This website would be great for this time of
year! You could do a lot of Christmas shopping
on this site.
• Perfect for buy gifts for your loved ones!
SketchUp is a 3D modeling program marketed by Google
and designed for architectural, civil, and mechanical
engineers as well as filmmakers, game developers, and a
variety of other design related professions.
You can use SketchUp to create 3D models of just about
anything you can imagine, and it is easy to learn and use,
and is designed primarily for the conceptual phase of
design.
People use SketchUp to create architectural, mechanical,
landscape, and woodworking models, as well as to design
the levels in games, and the sets and storyboards for
movies and television shows.
SketchUp can export models to a variety of 3D* and 2D
formats. Many of the standard CAD programs can import
and work with files that have been exported from SketchUp.
What’s Best About
These Tools
• FREE
• Collaborative Environment
• Creative Environment
• Publish Your and Student’s Work
• Global
Talk
• Instant messaging service
• Features
– Voicemail
– Offline messages
– Mobile device compatibility
Recipes
• Search for an
ingredient, food, or
event and then click
‘Recipes’.
• You can then refine
your search by
additional
ingredients, cooking
time, and even
calories.
More Search Tools
• On the results page,
click “Show search
tools”.
• This gives you more
search options
including
– Related searches
– Sites with images
– Translated foreign
pages
Refine Your Searches by
Location
• Click “nearby” to limit
results to pages that
are … well … nearby.
• You can choose to
see results either near
your default location
or near a custom
location.
• You can also narrow
results to the city,
region, or state level.
Timeline
Shows you historical
results for your
search terms.
Wonder Wheel
• The Wonder Wheel
shows search terms
related to what you
searched for.
• Navigate through the
relevant key words
and phrases to find
more and more
results.
• Click “Standard view”
to view the original
results.
Additional Options
• ‘Sites with images’
displays a handful of
images per hit.
• ‘Related Searches’
shows sites that are
related to your original
search term.
• ‘Translated foreign
pages’ looks for hits on
pages written in
languages other than
English and then
translates those pages
for you.
Sidebar Options at Other Google
Sites
images.google.com
video.google.com
Google Image Swirl
• Google Image Swirl
works a little like the
Wonder Wheel for
images.
• It clusters images
based on their visual
and semantic
similarities.
image-swirl.googlelabs.com
Lock Safe Search
• Google now lets you lock
Safe Search filtering.
• Go to
google.com/preferences
and click Lock Safe
Search.
• This will filter explicit text
and explicit images from
your search results
across over 200 Google
sites.
• NOTE: You must do this
in each web browser on
your computer.
Checking that Safe Search is on
• If you see four
colored balls in the
top right corner of the
results screen, Safe
Search is on.
• You will also see
“SafeSearch is
Locked” under the
search box.
• Note: No filter can
block every explicit
text or image.
GOOGLE EARTH
Historical Aerial Imagery
• Click the Clock icon to enable historic
imagery.
• Drag the slider to year you want.
• Suggestion: Warsaw , Poland (1935 and
1945)
GOOGLE NEWS
Google Fast Flip
fastflip.googlelabs.com
• Like a print magazine,
Fast Flip lets you
browse sequentially
through bundles of
recent news, headlines,
and popular topics, as
well as feeds from
individual top
publishers.
• A mobile version is
available for Android
and the iPhone.
GOOGLE CHROME
google.com/chrome
• Based on WebKit,
Chrome is a new-ish
browser from
Google.
• Like the Google
homepage, the
Chrome interface is
minimalistic.
• Best features:
security and speed.
YOUTUBE
YouTube Enhancements
• Maximum length
increased from 10 to
15 minutes.
• “Jump to” using your
keyboard.
– Click the video.
– Use you keyboard to
jump to a particular
part of the video
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0 = beginning
1 = 10% in
…
9 = 90% in
YouTube HTML5 Beta
youtube.com/html5
• If you have Safari 4 or
Google Chrome, you
can choose to use the
HTML5 player instead
of the Flash player for
most YouTube videos.
• This is an opt-in beta
trial, so expect some
bugs.
YouTube Leanback
• Designed for large
screens [e.g.,
televisions], YouTube
leanback autoplays
videos in full screen
and HD (when
available).
• Looking for the search
box? Just start typing.
• Press the down arrow
on your keyboard to
browse.
youtube.com/leanback
GOOGLE CODE AND APPS
Cloud Connect for Microsoft
Office
• Like the collaborative
features of Google Docs
but prefer to keep using
Microsoft Office?
• Cloud Connect is an
Office plug-in that lets
you share, backup, and
simultaneously edit
Microsoft Word,
Powerpoint, and Excel
documents.
• Windows only and
requires Office 2003,
2007, or 2010.
tools.google.com/dlpage/clo
udconnect
Google Public DNS
• One cause of slow page
loads, especially on complex
web pages, is slow DNS
lookups.
• Google has made their
incredibly speedy DNS
servers available to the
public at no cost.
• For more information, visit
code.google.com/speed/
public-dns/
• Note: I would not
recommend this for
travelers—some hotel
connections require you to
use the hotel’s DNS.
code.google.com/speed/
public-dns
Google Goggles
• Google Googles is a
visual search
application that lets
you search the web
by taking a picture
with your Android’s or
iPhone’s camera.
• For more information:
google.com/mobile/
goggles
• Oh, and it solves
Sudoku puzzles too.
OLD (BUT COOL) STUFF
Google URL Shortener
goo.gl
• Paste a long URL in the
box.
• Google will convert that
URL to a goo.gl
shortcut.
• Add .qr to the end of
any goo.gl-shortened
URL to convert it into a
QR code.
Google Moderator
google.com/moderator
• Google Moderator is a
free tool that allows
distributed communities
to submit and vote on
questions for talks,
presentations, and
events.
• Participants vote on
whether or not the
questions are ‘good.’
• Moderator automatically
tallies the votes and
displays the best
questions first.
LIFE Photo Archive
• Millions of photographs
from the LIFE archive
are now included in
Google Image Search.
• Browse the archive
directly or add
source:life to limit
your search to the LIFE
archive
http://images.google.com/
hosted/life
Google Dictionary
• Google Dictionary lets
you search through the
Oxford Pocket Dictionary
of Current English.
• It includes not only
definitions but also
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Pronunciations,
Conjugations,
Related phrases,
Related languages, and
Usage examples.
• It works with English
words as well as words
from 20 other languages.
dictionary.google.com
Google Translate
• Enter your text,
document, or URL in
the text box and Google
will [attempt to]
translate that text into
another language.
• Supports over 50
languages, including
Latin.
• Also available for
Android and iPhone:
Live audio translation.
translate.google.com
Google Help
google.com/support
• Google now has a
unified help center,
categorized by activity
[e.g., “searching,
shopping, and browsing
the web”]
• The search box at the
top of the help center is
actually a custom
search engine that
searches over 200
Google sites.
GOOGLE GRAVEYARD
Requiescat in Pace
• Web-only alerts from
Google Alerts (June
2010)
• Google Wave (August
2010)
• Google 411 (Nov
2010)
• Messages, files, and
pages in Google
Groups (2011)
• Google Desktop (?)
FreeFoto.com
KEEPING UP
Google Announcements
For more information about what’s new and
what’s next at Google, I recommend visiting
the following sites:
– Google New
www.google.com/newproducts
– Google Labs
labs.google.com
– Google Blog
googleblog.blogspot.com
– Google Operating System
googlesystem.blogspot.com
References
• www.slideshare.net
• Keeping up with the Googlebots – Patrick
Douglas Crispen, Ed.D – www.NetSquirrel.com
• http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/
• Desiree Caskey SlideShare Presentation