Not Yo’ Mama’s Google Lynda Delo Woodlawn Leadership Academy Shreveport, Louisiana

Google’s History Two PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founded Google in They began in a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California. L to R: Schmidt, Brin and Page Google’s first server

Instead of counting how many times search terms appeared on a webpage as traditional search engines did at the time, Page and Brin theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites to determine page rank.

BackRub to Googol to Google It was originally called “BackRub” because the system checked a site’s backlinks to help determine page importance. Later the name was changed to Google which originated from a misspelling of the word “googol”, the number one followed by one hundred zeroes. This was to represent the amount of information the search engine was to handle. 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

BackRub to Googol to Google The company's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful“. - Listed in Forbes as one of the top one hundred best places to work.

Search Types (Google Basic): Blogs, Books, Dictionary, Finance, Health, Images, Maps, Scholarly journals, Trends, From mobile device, Videos, Communicate, show & share (Google Interactive) Blogger, Calendar, Docs, Groups, Blogger, KNOL, Mail, Orkut, Picasa, Readers, Sites, SketchUp, Talk, Translate, YouTube Google’s Features Today

Google 2.0 To access most of Google’s great free stuff you need to have a Google account (Yep, it’s free too).

Google 2.0 For quick access to any of Google’s features go to: Google Products

Google 2.0 Or go to and click on the “more” tag.

Google 2.0 Then, click on the last item in the drop down list, “Even More”

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Google Docs

Presentations text documents spreadsheets (Power Point, Word & Excel) Google Docs

Advantages: Backs up to your Google account. No need for flash-drives, disks etc. Can be accessed anywhere in the world! Allows more than one person to work on a file from different locations. Google Docs

Lab presentation

Google Calendar Calendar

 Allows co-workers, students and parents to view upcoming events and due dates It’s very easy to make changes. Just drag and drop. Google Calendar

Picasa 3 Allows you to  Organize photos  Edit photos including eliminating blemishes, fix red-eye, crop  Print captions  Turn photos into movies, collages, slideshows  Share on the web with family and friends Download Picassa 3 Picassa User’s Guide

Google 2.0 Picasa Help Forum Picasa Help Forum Click Above

Google 2.0 Picasa 3

Google 2.0 Picasa 3: Basic Fixes  Crop  Straighten

Google 2.0 Straightening

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Special Effects

Google 2.0 Picasa 3  Redeye Reduction

Google 2.0  Organize photos It doesn’t move any of your photos on your hard drive. It only locates them for you. Picasa 3

 Members only discussion boards  Easy to create  Includes online file storage  Allows posts with other’s responses Google Groups My Groups

Google 2.0 Google Groups  Create your own book discussion board for patrons.  Post a thought provoking question or two and have them respond.

Google 2.0 Google Groups Instructions for Mrs. Delo’s Environmental Science Discussion Board  Post a comment to this board regarding the book Never Cry Wolf. There is a minimum of 50 words. You can comment on just about anything regarding it, then respond to at least one other student's post with a minimum of 30 words.

Some ideas you can use for comments:  Do you like the book? why or why not? Do you like the book? why or why not?  Do you think being a field biologist like Mr. Mowat would be a good career choice and if so why? Do you think being a field biologist like Mr. Mowat would be a good career choice and if so why?  In what ways have you observed Mr. Mowat following proper scientific procedures (observing, hypothesizing, experimenting, concluding etc.)? In what ways have you observed Mr. Mowat following proper scientific procedures (observing, hypothesizing, experimenting, concluding etc.)?  What ways have you noticed where he didn't follow proper scientific What ways have you noticed where he didn't follow proper scientific procedures? Google 2.0

Google Sites Create your own free website from easy to use, professional looking templates.

Google Scholar Search creditable sites for research.

Google Reader Subscribe to different website’s RSS feeds and get instant notification when they update their site.

RSS feed

Blogger

iGoogle

Great programs from sources other than Google:  Photostory(slide presentation)  Garageband.com (free MP3 downloads)  Paint.net (graphics design)  Evrsoft’s First Page (HTML editor similar to Front Page)  Wordle

Photostory  Free download  Great for silent book talks  Introduction to a lesson  Student created story boards

Google 2.0 Author: Farley Mowat

Paint.Net

Google 2.0 Wordle.net

Google 2.0 List Sunshine community veggies happiness rain wealth fresh living environment family life health growth hope Happiness hope hope life life life life Wordle.net Make a word list (or copy text) - the more times the word is used, the larger the word will be in the Wordle.

Google 2.0 Wordle.net

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