Google for your Class!
A Teacher’s Guide
February 22, 2013
Anirudh Phadke
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
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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