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Educational Blogging Platform: Google Me Helps Keep Students Organized and Informed

Create a free blog with Google Me to easily update students with assignments. Post text, photos, and videos from web or mobile. Personalize your blog, learn more with Google Books and Google Buzz for mobile sharing. Share schedules, events with Google Calendar, upload files to Google Docs, manage email efficiently with Google Mail, edit photos with Picasa, and create websites with Google Sites. Explore Google SketchUp for 3D design and Google Scholar for academic research. More Google applications available on www.google.com.

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Educational Blogging Platform: Google Me Helps Keep Students Organized and Informed

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  1. Google Me Small Discussion Group Final Product

  2. Google Me Steve Bouchard, Tina Boylan, Paula Cella, Mike Fanelli, Chip Garrison, Dawn Kosko, Jen Lewis, John Malecki, Kim Vasile, Kelly Wischner

  3. Create a blog…it’s free! • Your blog • Keep students up to date with assignments • Easy to use • Post text, photos, and video • From the web or your mobile phone • Flexible - Personalize your blog any way you wish! • How do I get started? Click Google Blogs to learn.

  4. Books sorted by topic • Includes ratings and reviews • Search books • Create your own personal bookshelf • Organize selections to use in your classroom • Share your bookshelf with other members • Learn more about Google Books

  5. Google Books Tutorial

  6. Google Buzz works from your mobile phone • Share updates, photos, videos and more • Start conversations • Share publicly or privately • Comments get sent right to your inbox • Connect sites you already use • Buzz from your phone • Google Buzz Mobile Information

  7. Our Learn More About Using Google Buzz Google Buzz Tutorial

  8. Share your schedule • Get your calendar on the go (mobile version) • Never forget another event • Send invitations and track RSVPs • Sync with your desktop • Work offline • It’s free!

  9. Get Things Done With Google Calendar • Video Tutorial - Get things done with Google Calendar • How to Use Google Calendar • Video Tutorial for How to Use Google Calendar

  10. Upload files from your desktop , store online • Create documents, spreadsheets, forms, and presentations • Accepts most popular file formats • Open files anywhere, share them with anyone • Edit anytime, from anywhere • Control who can access your documents • Share changes and collaborate instantly • Publish and “un-publish” anytime

  11. Click below to get started with Google Docs and learn more Google Docs

  12. Google Finance • Current market data, news and portfolios • Streaming real time recent quotes • Compare companies easily with a new interactive tool • Customize the homepage

  13. Use stock screener to research before you buy • Stock Screener Tutorial • Participate in financial discussion groups online • Use interactive charts • Get news and more news • Create, maintain and track your • personal portfolio • Click on the link below to view a tutorial! • How to use Google Finance

  14. Easy and efficient e-mail • Built in chat: talk, text or video • Less spam and lots of free storage • Organize your replies into conversations • Manage your mail with labels, starring, filters • Get mail on your mobile phone • Secure mail with “always on” https encryption

  15. And it’s all free! • To sign up for a free email account… • Visit the link below • Click on “Create an account”. http://mail.google.com

  16. Google Picasa • Web Editing Software - Find, edit and share photos • Select Download Picasa from google.com • Select the following link • Picasa Demonstration Video

  17. Picasa Follow the following links from www.google.com • More (top left) • Photos • Download Picasa • More (again) • Even More • Picasa (from the right column) • Learn more about Picasa & Picasa Web Albums

  18. What is Google Reader? • Google Reader will help you keep track of your favorite websites • Why use Google Reader? • To compile your favorite news sites/blogs in one convenient place • Easily access your favorite updated sites on a daily basis

  19. How? View the easy-to-follow tutorial: • Google Reader Video Tutorial

  20. What is Google Sites? • Google Sites will allow you to create a free website for the classroom • Visit Google Sites to get started. • Why use Google Sites? • Great resource for posting tutoring information • Post assignments, files, PDFs and useful links

  21. How? • View an easy-to-follow video tutorial below: • Google Sites Tutorial

  22. S • Software designed to draw objects and models in 3D • Three dimensional manipulation of the objects you create • Easy to use • Help center available • Dozens of tutorial videos • Worldwide user community with collections of drawings

  23. Biology: DNA Strand History: The Parthenon Theater: Stage Design

  24. Interested in learning more? • Explore Google SketchUp 7

  25. What is Google Scholar?Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

  26. Features of Google Scholar • Search diverse sources from one convenient place • Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions • Locate the complete document through your library or on the web • Learn about key scholarly literature in any area of research

  27. There are many more Google Applications available on www.google.com Check them out!!!!

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