For Educators Stacy Smith Instructional Technology Specialist Winfield Public Schools

For Educators

Stacy SmithInstructional Technology Specialist

Winfield Public Schools

How Does Work?

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Advanced Search

Search by:•Reading level•File Type•Language

Search Tips & Tricks• Keep it simple…Less is more

• Don’t worry about spelling

• Don’t use punctuation

• Search is not case sensitive

• Use descriptive words

Tips and Tricks

• Think of it like a large card catalog that may eventually contain every book ever in print

• At the Google Home page click “More” and then “Books”

• Or go to http://books.google.com

Book Search

• Searches only scholarly works-journals, articles, theses, books

• From the Google Home page click on “More” and then “Scholar”

• Of go to http://scholar.google.com

Scholar Search

• This is only available in Google Chrome

• Allows you to speak rather than type what you want to search

Voice Search

Search with Voice

• Select an image and search by that image

• Searches for related relevant information

Search by an image

Search With an Image

For Educators

• Allows you to access Teacher Community, and Google Teacher Academy

• Find suggested tools for your classroom• Go to http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html

In Education

• Resources• Training• Lesson Plan Search

http://www.google.com/edu/index.html

Custom Search

• Allows you to create a Google Search that only searches sites that you ask it to.

• Great for the classroom!

• Go To http://google.com/coop/cse

More

• Much much more to offer.• Not all can be used at school• Many are still a beta version • Too see everything Google has to

offer go to Google’s Home Page, click on “More” and click on “Even More”

http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/index.html