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Not Yo’ Mama’s Google. Lynda Delo Woodlawn Leadership Academy Shreveport, Louisiana. Google’s History. Two PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founded Google in 1997. They began in a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Not Yo’ Mama’s Google
Lynda Delo Woodlawn Leadership Academy Shreveport, Louisiana
Google’s History
Two PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founded Google in 1997. They began in a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California.
L to R: Schmidt, Brin and Page
Google’s first server
Instead of counting how many times search terms appeared on a webpage as traditional search engines did at the time, Page and Brin theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites to determine page rank.
BackRub to Googol to Google
It was originally called “BackRub” because the system checked a site’s backlinks to help determine page importance. Later the name was changed to Google which originated from a misspelling of the word “googol”, the number one followed by one hundred zeroes. This was to represent the amount of information the search engine was to handle.
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
BackRub to Googol to Google
The company's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful“.
- Listed in Forbes as one of the top one hundred best places to work.
Search Types (Google Basic):Blogs, Books, Dictionary, Finance, Health,
Images, Maps, Scholarly journals, Trends, From mobile device, Videos,
Communicate, show & share (Google Interactive)Blogger, Calendar, Docs, Groups, Blogger,
KNOL, Mail, Orkut, Picasa, Readers, Sites, SketchUp, Talk, Translate, YouTube
Google’s Features Today
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To access most of Google’s great free stuff you need to have a Google account (Yep, it’s free too).
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For quick access to any of Google’s features go to:
Google Products
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Or go to www.google.com and click on the “more” tag.
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Then, click on the last item in the drop down list, “Even More”
Google Docs
•Presentations•text documents•spreadsheets
•(Power Point, Word & Excel)
Google Docs
Advantages:
Backs up to your Google account. No need for flash-drives, disks etc. Can be accessed anywhere in the world!
Allows more than one person to work on a file from different locations.
Google Docs
Allows co-workers, students and parents to view upcoming events and due dates
It’s very easy to make changes. Just drag and drop.
Google Calendar
Picasa 3
Allows you to Organize photos
Edit photos including eliminating blemishes, fix red-eye, crop
Print captions
Turn photos into movies, collages, slideshows
Share on the web with family and friends
Download Picassa 3Picassa User’s Guide
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Picasa 3
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Picasa 3: Basic Fixes
CropStraighten
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Straightening
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Special Effects
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Picasa 3Redeye Reduction
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Organize photos
It doesn’t move any of your photos on your hard drive. It only locates them for you.
Picasa 3
Members only discussion boardsEasy to createIncludes online file storageAllows posts with other’s responses
Google Groups
My Groups
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Google Groups
Create your own book discussion board for patrons.
Post a thought provoking question or two and have them respond.
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Google Groups
Instructions for Mrs. Delo’s Environmental Science Discussion Board
Post a comment to this board regarding the book Never Cry Wolf. There is a minimum of 50 words. You can comment on just about anything regarding it, then respond to at least one other student's post witha minimum of 30 words.
Some ideas you can use for comments:
Do you like the book? why or why not?Do you think being a field biologist like Mr. Mowat would be a good career choice and if so why?In what ways have you observed Mr. Mowat following proper scientific procedures (observing, hypothesizing, experimenting, concluding etc.)?What ways have you noticed where he didn't follow proper scientific
procedures?
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Google Sites
Create your own free website from easy to use, professional looking templates.
Google Scholar
Search creditable sites for research.
Google Reader
Subscribe to different website’s RSS feeds and get instant notification when they update their site.
RSS feed
Blogger
iGoogle
iGoogle
Great programs from sources other than Google:
Photostory (slide presentation)Garageband.com (free MP3 downloads)Paint.net (graphics design)Evrsoft’s First Page (HTML editor similar to Front Page)Wordle
Photostory
Free download
Great for silent book talks
Introduction to a lesson
Student created story boards
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Author: Farley Mowat
Paint.Net
Paint.Net
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Wordle.net
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List
Sunshine community veggies happiness rain wealth fresh living environment family life health growth hope
Happiness hope hope life life life life
Wordle.net
Make a word list (or copy text) - the more times the word is used, the larger the word will be in the Wordle.
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Wordle.net
