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IM TECHIN PE!: Google Forms take the pain out of fitness testing... well at least for the teachers!
PE teacher talks about how he uses Google Docs with students to record fitness scores.
EarthURL.org
Cool website that lets you zoom into a place on Google Earth and then share that location via Twitter.
Google For Educators
Great posters that you can print for your school or classroom around how to use different google tools.
Official Google Enterprise Blog: 10 Gigs of Virtual Class (or Virtual Talent Show) for Free
As of March 31st, we will be offering 10GB of Google Video free to every Google Education Edition domain. This will give each school the ability to stream up to 30 hours of content of anything they want - be it 30 hours of Physics 101 lectures, 30 hours of little league soccer practices or 30 hours of commencement keynotes – or a mix of those.
Google Calendar Goes Offline For Everyone, But Is Still Hampered
Once you click on the “Offline” link at the top of the page, the application asks you once to enable Google Gears for the Calendar.
Google Guide Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators (Cheat Sheet)
A fantastic guide that you can print off in PDF form for your students. Every student should have this in their binder.
Edublogs.tv Google Search Tips
This is HUGE! Every teacher should watcht this video. It's fantastic!
Is Google Making Us Smarter? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
Now, a new study finds that skilled, thoughtful web surfing can actually build cognitive skills and may delay the onset of dementia in older users.
Googley | ijohnpederson
Design principles. From Google.
1. Focus on people—their lives, their work, their dreams.
2. Every millisecond counts.
3. Simplicity is powerful.
4. Engage beginners and attract experts.
5. Dare to innovate.
6. Design for the world.
7. Plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business.
8. Delight the eye without distracting the mind.
9. Be worthy of people’s trust.
10. Add a human touch.
(Link: Official Google Blog: What makes a design “Googley”?)
You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well - WSJ.com
So when Ms. Wilson, now 32, was pregnant with her first child, she ran every baby name she and her husband, Justin, considered through Google to make sure her baby wouldn't be born unsearchable. Her top choice: Kohler, an old family name that had the key, rare distinction of being uncommon on the Web when paired with Wilson. "Justin and I wanted our son's name to be as special as he is," she explains.
The Google Game - 1/1/2006 - School Library Journal
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The google game. Help teach your students to search the web with google using this fun game. A great way to spend time those last couple days before Winter holiday (or summer holiday for those south of the line).
- jutecht on 2007-12-11
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Sure, your kids are familiar with Google (even to the exclusion of other search engines). But how effective are they at using it?
Education/Technology - timlauer.org – Google My Maps Embed Your Map
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create your won map with just the information you want for students and embed it into your blog or web page, or link to it...better yet...have students create their own maps!
- jutecht on 2007-08-24
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Google has enhanced Google My Maps with a feature that allows you to embed your map in a web page or blog. Just click on the “link to this map” link and you are presented with code to paste into your web page.
Weblogg-ed » GoogleLit Trips
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Via Weblogg-ed
So this is pretty cool…take the great piece of literature that you’re studying and plot out the travels of the characters on Google Earth and then, of course, share the goodness. This GoogleLit Trips site is put together by Jerome Burg in California and features Google Earth downloads for Candide, MacBeth, The Odyssey and The Aeneid
among others. Just save the .kmz file to your computer, then open them
up in Earth. He also has a document that shows how to format the
bookmarks to add relevant information about he book.
- jutecht on 2007-03-08
Widgetbox › Virtual Earth web widget
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Put Google Earth right on your website or blog...pretty cool!
- jutecht on 2007-02-04
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