A History of the World - Location - Europe What can Google forms do for you and 800 students all at one time? 0 Comments June 21, 2009 By: Cheryl Oakes Jun 21 Written by: 6/21/2009 4:23 AM ShareThis This post demonstrates how effective and informative Google forms can be when planning a presentation and delivering a presentation. A few months ago, Kern Kelley, Alice Barr, Sarah Sutter, and I were asked to be part of a presentation in front of 800 MLTI students at a student conference on the University of Maine campus. Our session was titled : Block 3 - Only Google is big enough - Everyone, all together, one room, one session! In 2009 Good Questions are More Powerful Than Good Answers - Google Super Session (Alice Barr - Yarmouth High School; Kern Kelley - MSAD #48; Cheryl Oakes - Wells Ogunquit CSD; Sarah Sutter - Wiscasset High School)Maine's own team of Google certified educators will be leading the whole gang through a series of activities that will demonstrate the power of the Google Toolset. Here are the data points distributed on the global map. We had over 550 respondents answer our survey.
Google Books 2.0: Smarter Search and Easy Embeds Google Books has quietly been one of Google's most interesting project to date. It has involved the scanning of millions of books (which has been a point of contention with book publishers) and allows users to not only read books but to search them, embed printed words, and even access them on mobile phones. Today, Google launched a ton additional improvements. 1. Overall, it's a large collection of small feature upgrades that enhance the user experience. Global Awareness Home Page ChronoZoom ChronoZoom is an educational tool for teachers and students who want to put historical events in perspective. A great many resources have been created already in ChronoZoom for your enjoyment and enlightenment. Start Exploring Use ChronoZoom to get a perspective of the extensive scale of time and historical events relative to what happened around the world. Become an author yourself! New Teacher Resources RT @MSFTResearch: See how #Chronozoom helps students “think historically” & travel though time with 3 newly created curriculum modules http… #chronozoom is a valuable tool for illustrating Climate Change: @metanexus Anyone can author their small or Big History on the 14 Billion year timeline at - an open source project. @BillGates Congratulations to the Big History Project. RT @BillGates: Big History is my favorite course ever. You don't have any favorite timelines yet.
Google Launches a Community Service Search Engine We expected that President Obama might use the enormous social media influence he accumulated during his campaign to encourage community service. And earlier this year, Serve.gov was launched as part of this direction. Today, however, Google has gotten in on the project, launching All For Good, a website that aggregates volunteer opportunities from around the US from a number of charities and other websites. Along with All For Good, Google has launched an API to allow developers to use the data in their own applications. "And in the spirit of open data, All for Good has a data API that anyone can use to search the same data displayed on the All for Good site. First Lady Michelle Obama introduces Serve.gov in the video below:
helping teachers create paperless classrooms Common thinking about what kinds of folks make good 21st century teachers generally runs as follows: “They’re constantly in the process of being trained and being a lifelong learner,” he says. The 'he' saying this is Jeff Murphy, a director of instruction for the Florida Virtual School and he's being quoted in a recent article from Education Week. I cannot tell you how tired I am of hearing this sort of talk. The last thing I want is to be 'trained' more. I want teachers who are curious, experimental, sophisticated, and engaged. What we really need is to be recruiting more geeks. I'm talking about folks who don't have to be 'trained' in using technology. That's who we need to be recruiting. Because that's where our kids are. And -- even more importantly -- that's where the world our kids are entering into is. It is painfully obvious to our kids that certain teachers have no clue when it comes to the integration of technology into their classrooms. And more 'training' ain't gonna help. Really?
Children's Books and Book Club World History Using Images in Google documents - Official Google Docs Blog As anyone working on a term paper, project plan, or party invitation will tell you, there’s a lot of truth in the old saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” With the new Google Documents editor, you can easily find and insert the perfect image into a document and it will behave exactly as you’d like it. To get started, select Image from the Insert menu. In Google documents, you can import images from your computer or from a URL. But sometimes you don’t have the image you want to use on hand. Whether it’s a map of the Roman Empire or a photo of a golden retriever, you can now insert an image directly from Google Image Search. You can add any .gif, .jpg, .png, .bmp image file, up to 2 MB in size. Wrapping it upIt can be important for images in your document to interact in certain ways with your text. In the new version of documents, we’ve added a new setting for images -- Inline or Fixed. You can drag and drop the image around your document if the Fixed position is selected.
Video on Demand - Literary Visions - A Frame for Meaning: Theme in Drama Due to licensing agreements, online viewing of the videos for this resource is restricted to network connections in the United States and Canada. 1. First Sight: An Introduction to Literature This overview introduces the course content and approach. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Creative Connections - Creative Connections Welcome - The Flow of History