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
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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