Google Tools for Teaching and Learning

Another course from NCCE by Tammy Worcester called Google Tools for Teaching and Learning.

Her website is here with all of her handouts and presentation tools.

Google Tools

• Google Voice Search - look for the microphone, unique to Chrome web browser
• Can filter results by Reading Level - click on More Search Tools on the left side
• Recipes filter - search for chicken and click on recipes, lets you add other ingredients and it narrows down the search for recipes only with those ingredients
• Fun Google searches - do a barrel roll or search for askew
• drag an image into the search bar and Google will search for all the websites that contain that picture, helpful for finding the origin of a picture or who is in a picture
• Google - What do you Love? - searches for a topic and brings in a bunch of media around your search (search for pizza)
• Blogger - blogging tool with lots of nice features, easy to embed lots of things, she demoed embedding Vocaroo (online sound recording tool)
• Google Maps - can embed a map into Blogger
• Google Distance Measurement Tool - click on a map and it will show the distance you have traveled
• Use a Google Spreadsheet to keep track of lesson plans and then embed that spreadsheet into your blog
• Using Google's 'Publish to the Web' feature a lot to embed content into Blogs and websites
• Use Google Form to gather parent data at beginning of year (phone numbers and emails)
• Google Alerts - Google Alerts are email updates on the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your queries.
• Google Language Translator - listen to them after they are translated, also app for iOS devices