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New York Library Association - School Library Media Specialist Section -  Annual Conference

May 2, 2009

Google Tools for Schools

Thanks to everyone who attended this session at SLMS. It was great to get to talk with so many of you. Sorry we didn't get to all the topics in the presentation!  You'll find the slides here in pdf.

SHARE  YOUR IDEAS! You were all sharing such great ideas and examples during the session. I know I didn't get a chance to write them all down. So I hope you'll share them with me and with each other by commenting on my blog.

Keeping up with Google

• Google for Educators - tips and information specifically for educators. Classroom activities, posters, news and more.
• More Google Products - Directory of Google tools and services
• Google Labs - More Google tools & services under development
• Google Help Center
• Google Blog
• Google Blog for Students
• Press Center
• Google Librarian Central - intermittent updates, not sas active as the educators group.

First Things First

     Get a Google Account Here

News

• News Timeline - New in Google Labs. Select from many sources: news, blogs, photos, Time, Wikipedia, quotes and more. Select time frame (1800, 1500, 1952, etc.) And frequency: day, week, decade, etc.
  • Oil Pollution
  • Barack Obama Quotes - view by week over the last decade.
  • Meryl Streep - Movies
• Google News

Image Search

• Image Search - Search by color is new. Select color from menu bar just below the search box.
• Advanced Image Search
  • Content Type - handy to limit to News Images, clip art, etc.
  • Restrict to .gov sites to find images that you are more likely to be able to reuse without copyright restrictions.
• Similar Images - New in Google Labs. Click on "similar images" link below some images to see a selection of images that have a similar color, shape, theme.
• LIFE Photo Archive - Great archive of photos from LIFE magazine. Browse or search.
  • To search by decade: 1790s 1890s etc.
  • In regular google image search,. limit to LIFE collection with:  source:life
• Image Labeler - make image search better, add labels to images.

More!

• iGoogle
• Google Calendar
• Google Maps
• Google Earth
  • Google Lit Trips - maps and literature
• Google Books
• Google Docs
• Google Scholar
  • Google Scholar search box for your web page