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=__Bookmarks, Notebook, and Other Browser Extensions __=

Start by Installing the [|Google Toolbar] for Firefox.

Google Bookmarks for Educators
The Tool: http://www.google.com/bookmarks/ The FAQs: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-bookmarks-faq.html

Demonstration

Hands-On Experience
 * Add Bookmark (Lower Left)
 * Manage Labels (Lower Left)
 * Sort Bookmarks (Upper Right)
 * Export Bookmarks (Lower Left)
 * Import Bookmarks (using the Google Toolbar)
 * And... Web History
 * [|Add Bookmarks to iGoogle]

Educational Use:
 * Organize your own research (and web tools).
 * Collect resources to use with your colleagues and students.
 * Access your bookmarks from your desk, the computer lab, and at home.
 * Moving from room to room
 * Access resources from other people's computers

Note: We'll look at Bookmark functions in the Google Toolbar in the Extensions segment below (if we haven't covered it already).

Google Notebook for Educators
The Tool: http://www.google.com/notebook/ FAQs: http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/faq.html

Demonstration

Walk Through
 * Create Account
 * Create Notebooks
 * Unfiled Bookmarks (See Below)
 * Sort & Filter
 * Tools
 * New Note
 * New Section (Click open space beneath a note and then click Add Section.)
 * Share and Publish (See sharing options in the upper right.)
 * Export (At the bottom of the page)
 * And... Web History (Upper right, near your account information)
 * [|Add Google Notebook to iGoogle]

Educational Use:
 * Organize your own research (and web tools), complete with annotations.
 * Collect resources to share with colleagues and students.
 * Create a WebQuest.
 * And More... (We will generate these to close the activity.)

Note: We'll look at the Notebook Extension in the segment below (if we haven't covered it already).

Google Firefox Extensions for Educators
 [|Google Toolbar]

[|Google Browser Sync] [|Google Definitions] [|Google Docs Bar] (gDocsBar) [|Google Translate Extension] (Hints: Alt+Click to translate, Rt. Click to Change Languages) [|Googlepedia] [|gMail Space] [|Even More Google] (From Google) [|Even More Google] (From Firefox)

Time Permitting: [|Google Gears]

More cool extensions (Time Permitting): [|Build A Better Browser] (A Workshop Wiki)