My Google Tools

by Susan W Quinn

College of EducationUniversity of South Carolina - Columbia

susanq@sc.edu

Google Products

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/  

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Google Chrome

"A browser built for speed, stability and security"

My Favorite Features: • Choose your own theme• Import bookmarks and

settings from Mozilla Firefox

• Google Chrome browser - type URL or keyword(s)

• You can drag tab to new window - and back again

• 'Restore the pages that were open last' (Keeps your tabs the next time you start up)

iGoogle

"Add news, games and more to the Google homepage"

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My Tabs and Themes 

Home = TetrisNews = BeachTechnology = NeonBladeSports = Turner FieldEducation = Twinkle TwinkleLiving = Doughnuts 

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My Gadgets on iGoogle 

By Google:• Bookmark• Date & Time• Weather• Google Calendar• Gmail• Google Reader• Picasa Web Album• Google Scholar• Google Translate

By Others:• How to of the Day by

wikihow.com• My Facebook by SWAM

Technologies

• Twitter Gadget by LOGIKA Corporation

• Windows Shortcut of the Day by NuZs.com

• Live Customized Sports Scores by CBSSports.com

• Daily Education Quotes by Barbara J. Feldman

• Learn to Sign by NuZs.com• Box Of Links by Gadgeteer• Recipe of the Day by

RealSimple.com• Food & Calorie Finder by

Fatsecret.com

Scholar

"Search scholarly papers"

 Search USC holdings, too!

How are articles ranked?Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on the first page.

from About Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.htm

Reader

"Get all your blogs and news feeds fast"

My subscriptions include gadgets in my tabs that regularly update news items, such as: • BBC News• PCMag.com Tips and

Solutions• Techdirt• ESPN.com• TechLEARNing.com• About.com Exercise

Gmail

"Fast, searchable email with less spam"

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Like many people, this is how I got started with Google. (They are right about less spam.)

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Calendar

"Organize your schedule and share events with friends" 

• View multiple calendars • I synch it with my phone

Picasa

"Find, edit and share your photos"

Download a program • Gather media files from

computer • Edit photos

Albums on web site • Share an album • Link to the album • Have a slideshow

Docs

"Create and share your online documents, presentations, and spreadsheets"

• Put files in folders (or not)o multiple folders

• Publish files (URL)• Share files 

o to viewo to collaborate

• Save files to formats such as PDF, text, Word, PPT, Excel, OpenOffice, HTML 

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Publish• FAQs for classes

(document)

Share to view• Contacts

Collaborate• Presentation planning

(document)• Presentations

Personal Productivity• To do• Current open projects• E-mails (compose)• Responses to use again• MCUA - May Come Up

Again• Add to resource lists• Class planning 

Examples of My Google Docs

Sites

"Create websites and secure group wikis"

• Choose from themes and layouts

• Change colors, fonts, and formatting

• Add Google tools and other gadgets

• Edit HTML code, if you'd like

• View revision history• Share with owners,

collaborators, viewers• Make it public as a timed

presentation

  

Susan W Quinn

College of EducationUniversity of South Carolina - Columbia

susanq@sc.edu