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Ambassador of Digital Learning, WestEd cwalsh@wested.org ||   || ** > Get “Even More” Out of Google **
 * The Google Universe **
 * Chris Fitzgerald Walsh
 * > Introduction ** (Me, Google, and Knowledge)

Google Educators Website – [|www.google.com/educators] Infinite Thinking Machine - [|www.infinitethinking.org] 1) Google “Special” Web Searches - [|www.google.com/help/features.html] Ex. “Population of China”, “weather 92262”, “3(12*7)/6”, “movie: 94598”, “define: love”, “beatles”, “Bill Clinton age” 2) Google Personal Page & Alerts - [|www.google.com/ig] & [|www.google.com/alerts] Add content and rearrange it anywhere on your personal page. Get news alerts sent to you via email. 3) Google Simple Messaging System (SMS) - [|www.google.com/sms] Ex. Send a text message to “466453“ with a simple text search like “starbucks 94598”, “oakland ca to san jose ca”  4) Google Earth & Maps - [|earth.google.com] & [|maps.google.com] Explore images of Earth and unlimited geographical information with the world’s best interactive globe. Do a “flyover.” 5) Google Docs – [|docs.google.com] Collaborate and publish word processing documents, spreadsheets & presentations using only your web browser.  1) SketchUp – [|sketchup.google.com] 2) Blogger – [|www.blogger.com] 3) Google Groups – [|groups.google.com] 4) Google Calendar - [|www.google.com/calendar] 5) Google Notebook – [|www.google.com/notebook] 1) Gmail - [|www.gmail.com] & Google Talk – http://www.google.com/talk 2) Grand Central - [|www.grandcentral.com] 3) Goog411 - [|www.google.com/goog411/] 4) Picasa – [|picasa.google.com] 5) Google Apps & Sites - [|www.google.com/a] & [|sites.google.com]
 * > Google Education Resources **
 * > 5 Things You Need to Do __Right Now__ **
 * > 5 Things to Play with __Soon__ **
 * > 5 Things to Do __Whenever__ **


 * > Is Too Much Google a Good Thing? ** (Information Sources, Privacy Issues, Intellectual Property)

__Google Related Stuff__ Google Apps for Education: [|www.google.com/a/edu/] Google Custom Search Engines: [|www.google.com/coop/cse/] Google Android: [|code.google.com/android/] Google Moon: [|moon.google.com] GapMinder: [|www.gapminder.org] Juicy Geography: [|www.juicygeography.co.uk] Google Sightseeing: [|www.googlesightseeing.com] Google Map Mashups: [|googlemapsmania.blogspot.com] Scavengeroogle: [|www.bloglander.com/scavengeroogle] Brewster Jennings Protects America: [|www.brewsterjennings.com] Google Operating System: [|googlesystem.blogspot.com] Google Blogoscoped: [|blog.outer-court.com] Google Poem: [|www.cc.gatech.edu/~mihail/www-personal/googlepoem.html] **

Ten things that Google has found to be true… (Good advice for teachers and students too!) ** 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow. 2. It's best to do one thing really, really well. 3. Fast is better than slow. 4. Democracy on the web works. 5. You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer. 6. You can make money without doing evil. 7. There's always more information out there. 8. The need for information crosses all borders. 9. You can be serious without a suit. 10. Great just isn't good enough.