Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Building Innovators: Google Training
INTRODUCTION
Card activity and finding innovations, build the tower and then find a way to use things in your classroom

Resources
Comments
Snapz Pro X and ishowu
screen captures
gaggle.net
free keyboarding site with blogs and chats as well
landmark.com
free web-logs; many items
www.digication.com
online collaboration


www.voice.paly.com

Ten Top Things that Google has found to be true? (reflection)
  • find what works for your students
  • push for what you want for your students and have people to work on things
  • information that we still don't have is endless

Ancora Imparo - Always Learning

GOOGLE EARTH]
  • Deactivate Pro if it locks up
  • create video and then you can also put in on the ipod
  • Look into preferences (3D View)
    • change the elevation, speed, terrain quality to adjust to what you are doing
    • TOURING - speed set for how fast you fly
      • .1190
      • .1190
      • 1.7
        • halls settings
    • Placemakrs
      • show the tour with the captions
  • Movies
    • not your settings when you change them
    • not infinite loop can be used for open house to keep it going
    • start them at their own homes moving towards school
    • Take screen shots with data markers
      • use flickr/delicious files
  • Pay attention to your clicked items when you play - may end up at weird places
  • When you are working, goes into temporary files and you save to other places when you exit
  • Pictures can be from the web or specific location on your computer (name a folder that you don't move) - will not work on the other machine wihout re-locating the information
  • http://www.googlelittrips.com
  • snapz Pro X ; ishowU (mac screen shots, etc.)

COPA Compliance Act (all students)
Must be sure to keep their names safe and off their work

GOOGLE DOCUMENTS and SPREADSHEETS -
TO FIND
  • can type in his/her name and find all the work that they have done that semester - ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO
  • Revisions History - shows the work that they are starting with; cannot do the footnoting as well
  • ACCOUNTS
    • gmail account = access to all the tools that are available google based
    • google account = can enter the clary the fairy account that will give them access to the email
  • Beginning ASSIGNMENTS
    • personality profile
    • moview reviews
    • restaurant reviews
    • book reviews
    • product reviews
    • peer editing built into program
    • collaborate work on investigative stories
    • easy to publish work to webpage
    • etc
  • ADVANCED JOURNALISM
    • all students submit articles
    • editors edit articles at night
    • save as many different items
  • SAVE AS > P2LAST NAME FIRST INITIAL_title
  • TAG the documents
  • CHANGE DISPLAY NAMES so that you know what is going on and how you know what is going on.
  • PLACE A COMMENT




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