Google for your Class!

A Teacher’s Guide

February 22, 2013

Anirudh Phadke

Google

Search

List other products from Google

Google Apps for Education

Back to basics: Search

Back to basics: Search

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

Want a PhD in Googling?

http://onlinephd.org/phd-in-googling/

A little more serious stuff with Search

• Search Challenge for your class– Try this…– More lessons at

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/lessons.html

http://books.google.com/

http://scholar.google.com/

Google Drive for your Class

Why use Google Docs?

SharableSimultaneous

usersRevision

historyCollaborate

with other classes

On the cloud

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!

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

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#

More advanced stuff…

• MapsGL– 3D imagery of buildings– Integrated Street View

• Google Earth– http://www.google.co.in/earth/educators/

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