What's New from Google - Patrick Crispen

Googlebots from Patrick Crispen

fun presentation - Google 411 tip and Creative Commons search are AWESOME

The Googlebots send Google a complete copy of the entire Web page.

http://netsquirrel.com/ - to see his old presentation on how Google works and gets a page rank

Patrick gives permission to use his presentations under Creative Commons

Google 411

Call 1-800-goog411 will text the directions or map to cell phone, doesn’t offer residential information . . . yet

Google Mobile Maps is a dowloadable cell phone application, see real time traffic information; google.gmm; more cell phone stuff mobile.google.com

in google maps set location and then type ribs in [location]

Google Research Tools

books.google.com

full text searching of thousands of books – adding ~ 3,000 books a day

Google has scanned and you can search the content of books to let you know where the word you are searching for occurs in the book, but won’t let you read the book online (with a few exceptions)

scholar.google.com

limits searches to peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles

news.google.com

news archive search – can find out where the article is and then you have to go to your library and get the real document. look on left hand side for the timeline

Google notebook www.google.com/notebook

browser add-in that lets you save information from the Internet onto a virtual 3x5 card, highlight information on web site, click on the star it adds what you wanted to your Google notebook page. on your notebook page it has all the information you nee to cite the resource

on advanced search there is a choice under usage writes to specifically look for Creative Commons materials

common facts can be searched using plain English

Google will make basic mathematical calculations

3*5

1 light year in miles

1 cup in teaspoons

1 dollar in euros

define smoots

weather: greensboro nc

movie [zipcode]

Google Productivity Tools

could create a classroom set of email addresses on gaggle.net

Google Docs has Powerpoint now too

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I Believe I can Fly - with the help of Google Earth

Google has given us another awesome, free tool, Google Earth. If you have ever wanted to fly, you will have fun with this!

There are several Google Earth meme projects being created where people connect virtually and share an experience or a picture. You pin a note on the Google globe and people all over the world can read your note. It is a different kind of social networking.

This meme project was created by Lucy Gray. People share their experience about remarkable teachers and learning experiences. Check it out.

Here is my post about my most memorable teacher.

The teacher who had the greatest impact on me was Anne Simpson, my high school Language Arts teacher. She challenged me to give more of myself by assigning open-ended projects and maintaining high academic standards. She was passionate about teaching and transforming the lives of adolescents. She told me I should be a teacher and I did become one, thanks to her example. Today I work with teachers to help them enhance their teaching with technology. Through demonstrating her passion, Ms. Simpson helped me find my passion.

Thanks Lucy for giving me a reason to learn to fly with Google Earth!

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