Educator's Guide to Using Google Reader Love it!? Hate it!? Doesn’t really matter what you think of the new Google Reader interface….. What does matter is they’ve changed some of the Google Reader functionality educators like to use. So here’s my essential guide for what educators now need to know about using Google Reader. Click on the following links to learn more: Intro to RSS and Google Reader One of the smartest things you can do is learn how to use RSS well if you plan to work online with your students. RSS isn’t dead, isn’t hard to learn and is an essential time saving tool for reading latest students’ work in one location quickly. RSS is an acronym which stands for Really Simple Syndication. In simple terms, RSS is a simple and effective way of keeping in touch when new information is added to a website without having to visit the website to check for new updates. The most common RSS reader used is Google Reader. How it works is you subscribe to your favorite website using the RSS feed in Google Reader. Please note : 1. 2. 3.
Technology: Google Drive - UCF Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Last Modified on July 17 2012. Introduction Google Drive (which now supercedes Google Docs) is a Web-based interface that allows you to create, store, and edit several types of documents, including presentations, spreadsheets, and word-processed files. In addition, you can share the documents you make and work on them simultaneously with multiple collaborators. Google Drive supports importing and exporting files in many popular formats, including Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and PDF standards. How Do I Get Started? To use Google Drive, you’ll need a Google account (which does necessarily mean that you must create a Google Mail—or Gmail—account, but if you have a Gmail account, it is already a Google account). Go to Fill out all the fields, using whichever e-mail address you’d prefer for your account name in the first box, labeled "Your current e-mail address:" Click the button labeled "I accept. Create a new document Document Sharing
80 Ways To Use Google Forms In Your Classroom 5 Tips For Finding A Scholarship 3.82K Views 0 Likes Nowadays, searching for high school scholarships should be easier than ever before—but is it? Searching for plainly “Scholarships” in search engines will return you about 83 million results. That high number of result... The Comprehensive Guide to Google Free Tools for Teachers and Students Google has some of the best free educational resources for teachers and students. I am one of the biggest fans of some of his services such as Google plus, YouTube, Bogger, Google docs and many more. The question is do all teachers know about how to leverage these services in education ? Unfortunately not all of them do. Many still relate Google to a sole web engine where you can perform a search query. Given the huge importance of Google services in education and the pressing need for us as teachers and for our students as learners to get to know and use these tools, I have compiled a thorough guide containing all the Google tools that we can use in education. Here is a List of the Google services I have included in this guide: ( Scroll down to read and download the guide ) 1- How to create a Google Account 2- Getting to Know Gmail 4- Google Documents 5- iGoogle 6- Google Reader 7- Google Earth 9- Google Chrome Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions for educators 10- Picassa : How to use Picassa