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Google Earth Lit Trips & Journeys

Google Earth can be used to bring stories to life, explore history,  expand awareness of global issues and so much more. In this hands-on  session you'll learn tips and tricks for navigating easily, how to create and playback tours, techniques for adding content to your tours and how to save your tour files to share with others.

Google Search Update

There's always something new with Google Search! We'll cover all the latest tips and tricks, with time for you to share any of your secret tips too.

Google Sites & Docs

With Google Docs your students can collaborate on reports and presentations. They can create forms to collect data and then work with the data in a spreadsheet. Google Sites is an easy way to create a web page, particularly handy for presenting class projects and sharing resources. Come learn how to get started with these handy tools

Widgets, Gadgets and more

Widgets and gadgets can help you provide your students with easier access to good information sources. Examples include: Custom search boxes that search just the websites you've selected for a research topic. Search box to quickly access your commercial databases. An rss feed widget that highlights the latest news headlines on a hot topic. Add the full text of a book from Google books, create book cover displays, photo slideshows, add maps, audio, videos and much more.