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Pages 12-17 Google offers dozens of free resources that teachers and students can use to improve their learning experiences. This guide is intended for teachers who would like to know more about Google Search, Google Docs, and Google Maps.

This guide begins with an overview of advanced Google Search tools that can improve Internet search experiences.

About this Guide

So you know about Google, but do you know how to post a quiz online, create map placemarks containing videos, or how to find free full-length books?

This guide presents uses for Google Books, Google Docs Forms and Spreadsheets, and Google Maps.

Step by step directions are provided for embedding Google Books, creating and embedding quizzes made with Google Docs Forms, customizing and embedding Google News widgets, and creating placemarks in Google Maps.

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Related Search

Related search is probably the most obvious search altering option offered by Google, but because the related search terms are usually buried at the bottom of the page, students often don't click on the options.

A lot of students when given an open-ended research assignment struggle to pick the right terms to enter into a search. Often once they've entered a set of terms, they're unhappy with the results. Direct them to try the related search terms that are automatically generated by Google.

A small tweak in the choice of search terms, particularly a tweet of operator words, can yield significantly different results. Each time students tweaks their search terms, new related search terms appear.

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Google's Timeline option allows users to refine their searches by the dates referenced in the online materials. Timeline displays a chart on which users can click to find materials referencing a particular date or range of dates.

Timeline is particularly useful for history students.

Timeline also offers an option for refining search results by the date on which something was posted online. Users can specify that they want results only from the last day, week, month, year, or they can specify a particular date or range of dates. Click the "show options" link after entering your search terms, to find this option.

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Wonder Wheel is not as easy to find as the "related search" option on Google. To locate Wonder Wheel, click the "more options" link that appears at the top of any list of Google results. Wonder Wheel is then found in the list on the left side of the page.

Wonder Wheel takes the concept of web and applies it to search refinement. Enter any search term in Wonder Wheel and that term will appear in the center of the web. Each branch of the web contains a related search term. Click one of those terms and a new web will be generated and linked to the original web. It's a good way for student to learn about connections between terms.

You can see a video of Wonder Wheel in action by clicking here. Or visit http://freetech4teachers.com/ 2009/o5h~oogle-wonder-wheel-inaction.html

Google Books

In Google Books Advanced Search you can search for full-length books that are in the public domain and available for free download and printing. Those same books can also be embedded into your blog or website. To find full-length, public domain books, go to books.google.com then select public domain in the advanced search options menu.

In the past I've given my US History students an assignment in which they have to read and analyze a book about about the Civil War. As I have more students than our school's library has books about the Civil War, the huge listing of books about the Civil War that are in the public domain is very handy for my students.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is designed to help students research works from scholarly journals, patent applications, and legal opinions.

Google Scholar allows you to read full text legal opinions from US federal and state district courts, appellate courts, and the Supreme Court. You can search for opinions by case name (like Miranda v. Arizona) or by topic (like school busing).

Google Scholar's addition of legal opinions could be very useful for teachers and students of US civics. Google Scholar could help schools reduce or eliminate the need to purchase updated legal opinion books every few years.

Find Google Scholar at http://scholar.google.com

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Google News search allows students to scour the web for news stories from Google's trusted sources. Students can refine searches by date to look at current stories (default setting) or to look back at news stories from years ago. Students can also refine their searches by specifying a particular news source and or a particular author.

Google News Fast Flip presents news stories in a visuallyappealing magazine rack-style. Students can click through the covers to find a news story.

The Google News wizard makes it easy to customize the look and the content displayed on your blog. Once you have selected the news content you want displayed and the size of the display, simply copy the code generated for you and paste it into your blog.

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One of the lesser known elements of Google Docs is spreadsheet gadgets. Gadgets are designed to take data from your spreadsheets and use it or display it in non-spreadsheet forms.

The Word Cloud Gadget takes the words (and numbers if you choose) in your spreadsheet and generates a word cloud. You can customize the Word Cloud Gadget to use the words from all of your cells or you can specify to draw upon specific cells. You can also customize the Word Cloud Gadget to link words in the cloud to a search engine. To add further utility, you can adjust the Word Cloud Gadget to ignore certain words when generating your word cloud.

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Reading Levels

If you select the word count option in the Google Docs tools menu you will find three indicators of the reading level of the document you're creating. Google Docs will calculate for you the Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and the Automatic Readability Index.

The Google Docs reading level indicators could be useful in selecting Internet articles for students to read. Paste an article into Google Docs to quickly determine the reading level.

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The Google Docs Templates gallery contains three templates allow you to create flashcards, word searches, and a word study game.

If you've been looking for just the right flashcard program or the right word search generator, but haven't found it, these templates might be what you need. One clear advantage of using these templates over a commercial program is that you won't be exposing your students to any advertising on your word search or flashcards.

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Thesaurus & Dictionary

Google Docs contains an integrated thesaurus, dictionary, and encyclopedia tool. It is a simple tool to use. Simply highlight a word in your document then select "look up word" from the "tools" drop-down menu. From there you can find a synonym, a definition, or an Encyclopedia Britannica reference to your selected word. Also worth noting is an image search tool integrated into Google Docs. Just like using the thesaurus tool, simply highlight a word in your document then select "search for images" from the "tools" menu. Suggested synonyms and definitions appear in a pop-up window that floats over the document you're working on.

Bibliography Templates

Google Docs has templates for creating bibliographies in APA, MLA, AMA, and Chicago Style. You can find these templates in the Google Docs Template Gallery.

The Google Docs bibliography templates could be very useful for any student that needs to create a bibliography.

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Translation

Google's translation tool is integrated into Google Docs. You can translate any document in Google Docs into your choice of fifty-one different languages. To use the translation feature, just select the "translate" option under the "tools" drop-down menu.

Google Docs translation tool obviously could be used in a foreign language class. It could also be useful if you have students that live in homes where English is not the primary language. If you need to send a letter home, you can easily print it out in multiple languages.

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Google Docs contains an equation editor for mathematics teachers and students. Google Docs also offers a subscript and superscript tool that can be used in writing chemical compounds and mathematics equations.

The equation editor, subscript, and superscript tools make it possible for math and science teachers and their students to use Google Docs for more of their document creations. With these three tools online collaborative document creation isn't limited to the humanities. Science and mathematics students can also collaborate to solve equations.

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The Google Docs clipboard allows you to copy content from a spreadsheet and paste it to a document or presentation. Likewise, you can copy from a document and paste to a presentation or a spreadsheet celL

The most important element of the Google Docs clipboard is that you can save multiple selections to your clipboard and access them at any time from any internetconnected computer.

The Google Docs clipboard option could be useful for editing the sequence of an outline or essay. Students can copy many elements to their clipboards and paste them onto a blank canvas in the order they want.

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Google Docs Forms allows teachers to create a quiz and post it online. All of answers submitted by students appear in an easy-tograde spreadsheet.

Along the same lines of creating a quiz using Google Docs Forms, teachers and students can create surveys in Google Docs. Surveys can be embedded into a blog or website. All responses will appear in a spreadsheet. After all responses are collected users can choose from a variety of summation tools built into Google Docs Spreadsheets. The summation tools will create graphs of the survey responses.

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Math Maps

Math Maps are Google Maps on which Tom Barrett and others have created placemarks which when clicked reveal mathematics questions for students to answer based on the maps. There are questions available for every elementary school grade level. The placemarks are color-coded to indicate the level of the questions. Blue = Kindergarten, Red = 1st grade, Green = 2nd grade, Light Blue = 3rd grade, Yellow = 4th grade, Purple = 5th grade. Visit Tom Barrett's Math Maps page to view the existing Math Maps and read about how to contribute to the existing Math Maps.

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Placeopedia is a website that provides additional context for Wikipedia entries through Google Maps. Placeopedia connects Wikipedia articles with their locations. Click on any placemark on Placeopedia's map and you will be linked to a Wikipedia article about that place.

Placeopedia can be a good tool for students to use to do some quick, general research about a city, state, or country. Placeopedia is also useful for providing geographical context for other Wikipedia articles that references locations.

Visit Placeopedia at

Learn more about math maps here http: / / placeopeida.com http://edte.ch/blog/maths-

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Climate Change Data

Geo.me Solutions has created a fairly in-depth mapped display of global climate data. The map is a Google Map containing placemarks that when opened reveal current weather data as well as historical weather data. In some cases there is data dating back three hundred years. The data is recorded from more than 1,500 weather stations around the globe. You can browse through the data sets by clicking on placemarks on the map or you can enter a search for a specific location.

Explore this Google Maps mashup at http://www.geo.me /

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Paint Map is part search engine, part artwork sharing, and part Google Map. The way Paint Map works is artists submit images of their paintings, write a description of the where the painting was made, and then plot that location on a Google Map. Paint Map offers a commenting system through which visitors and artists can interact. There is a search bar on Paint Map's homepage that visitors can use to search through the nearly 500 paintings on Paint Map.

Paint Map provides students with a global context of the paintings they view.

Find Paint Map at http://paintmap.com

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Plan a Bike Route

Google Maps provides directions for traveling by bicycle in more than 150 US cities. When you enter a pair of addresses you can choose to get directions for traveling by automobile or bicycle. Don't have any particular addresses in mind that you want to ride to? Google Maps offers suggested bicycle riding routes which you can find by selecting "bicycle" in your Google Maps menu.

Google Maps can be used by physical education teachers and or health teachers to have students plan safe routes for bicycle rides. To take the assignment a step farther you could have students plan a route, measure the distance, and calculate how many calories a person could burn on that route. There are numerous calorie calculators on the web that you could use for that second step.

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Google Lit Trips provides dozens of examples of using Google Earth to map out stories. You can use the same concept to create literary maps in Google Maps. Have students choose their favorite stories, identify the locations mentioned in the stories, and then create placemarks on a Google Map. The students' placemarks can include text, images, and videos.

On a similar note, you could have students create a story from scratch and map it out on a Google Map.

For more ideas about creating literary maps visit:

http://www.googlelittrips.com

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Step 1 - Create a Google Account if you don't already have one.

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For more information and more tutorials (including videos) please visit FreeTech4Teachers.com and select

"Coogle Tools Tutorials" from the top menu.

Reuse of this guide - You may print and use this guide for professional development provided that you do not charge participants for the guide. You may publish this guide on your blog / website with proper attribution and provided you do not charge visitors access the guide.

About the Author

Richard Byrne is a social studies teacher at a Western Maine High School. When not teaching Richard writes the award-winning blog Free Technology for Teachers.

Richard is a Google Certified Teacher available for speaking and conducting workshops at your school or conference.

To see a list of places where Richard has presented in the past, please visit:

http://www.visualcv.com/richardmbyrne

Contact Richard:

richardbyrne (at) freetech4teachers.com

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