Google Power Tools
Tamara Pierce
Tamara.Pierce@marshfieldbluejays.org
The “How-To” Manual:
• http://www.googleguide.com/ While not an official Google product, it has a handy 2 page Cheat sheet!
• Google Tools to support Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html
Hand Tools from Google:
• http://www.google.com/insidesearch/index.html Searching made easy
• I’m feeling lucky
• Calculator functions
• Conversions
• Translations
• Movie:
• Weather
• Define
• In quotes “
• Webpage screen shots at right
• Filter by Reading Level on left
Power Tools
http://www.google.com Select More>Even More
Google Geo:
Google Downloads:
Sketchup: http://sketchup.google.com
Google Earth: http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
• https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ Chrome browse
• https://drive.google.com Store everything, both online and offline
Google Apps
• Docs
• Spreadsheets
• Forms
• Presentations
• Calendar
• Gmail and chat (see below)
• Sites
Other Google Products:
• http://www.google.com/moderator/ Online discussions
• http://www.google.com/analytics/ Analyze the traffic to your Google site
• http://www.google.com/mars/ Mars pics
• http://www.google.com/educators/ Teacher tools
• http://www.google.com/cse/ Create a custom search engine
• http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/search-plus-your-world.html Google blog
• http://plus.google.com Share with your family and friends
• http://play.google.com Music, books, apps and more
• http://www.youtube.com/education Educational videos
• http://www.google.com/talk/ Video chat
• http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/ Print from anywhere
• https://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect/ Cloud connect with Microsoft products
Google Sites Webpage
Navigate to Google Sites to begin creating your own website. Name your site, choose a template and you’re up and running!
It’s enough to keep us busy for quite a while, isn’t it!! Enjoy!