UCET presentation, March 2, 2007 at Murray High School Murray, Utah1. overview of the Google for Educator tools 2. Google Tools and our student mediaHere's how my media students have adapted a blogger page to create a
student web site for their media (Hopefully Google video isn't blocked on your computer like it is for me at Murray High School today).
Examples of student video
- Student speech at Martin Luther King, Jr. assembly – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4816089416847200439
- Dedication of new field at Judge Memorial – http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5520650163381416232
- Death Penalty with an interview of Dead Man Walking author, Sr. Helen Prejean http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6595178183400125417
3. Google Tools in my classroommy Google Earth tour and a look at the Guatemala sink hole
Here's a link to a
CBS story Here's a link to the
Google Earth Blog on the same topic
Google Reader for news feed sources
Google Alerts for specialized research
Google Docs and Spreadsheets (PaulF pick & roll has in-text citations vs. Annie's earworms with a hyperlinked bibliography)
(revision history of annie's story & Teton story)
Picasa for temporary photo storage
Blogger for my
personal blog (although when I went to post on it this morning, it had been flagged as a spam blog)
- free and easy to use
- saved on a server that can be accessed any time vs. on a local computer
- tags
- revision history
- rss and alerts for research
5. Concerns about using Google