15 Second Tech Tutorials for Google
Additional Google Websites
Do you know about all of the different Google Tools available? How can they benefit you or your students?
- Google Arts & Culture- Discover the history, traditions and culture of other places around the world.
- Google Earth- Travel and learn about the world through a virtual globe.
- Google Earth Engine- A tool for analyzing geospatial information that includes an interactive timelapse viewer to travel back in time and see how the world has changed over the past twenty-nine years.
- Google Keep- (Teacher Tool)- Capture what's on your mind with Google Keep. You can add notes, lists, photos, and audio to Keep.
- Google News- A unique way to view news online.
- Google Scholar- Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
- Google Sky- Allows you to view celestial objects, including stars, constellations, galaxies, planets and the Earth's moon within your browser.
- Google Trends- See the latest trends, data, and visualizations from Google.
Using Google as a Search Tool With Students
- Is Google OK for formal research? Sure ... if you know how to use it. Click here to read about 5 must-have Google search tips for students.
- Check out this infographic called, "Get More Out of Google: Tips & Tricks for Students for Students Conducting Online Research".
You can enhance your Google experience by adding Extensions. You can find all of them on the Chrome Web Store, but here are some useful ones to check out:
- Print Friendly – This extension allows you to create a printer friendly version of a website. The extension will give you the option to remove individual images or all images from the printed version. This is a great tool for making websites and online articles print in a more manageable way!
- Mercury Reader- Clear away the clutter from all of your articles. Instantly. The Mercury Reader extension for Chrome removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.
Have you seen this?
Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
The Crown Jewels Caper: The world’s greatest super thief has struck again. Can you track her around the globe to recover the stolen loot? Click here to give it a try.
Paint Roller –In Google Suite, the paint roller feature allows a user to apply text appearance (font, size, color) from one part of the screen or document to whatever portion of the document is selected. This will ensure that all formatting for a document is the same! To use the paint roller, simply highlight the portion of the document that you want everything to match to, and click the paint roller at the top of the screen (next to the re-do button). Then highlight the portion of the document you want to change, and voila! The format of the highlighted section will change to match!
Force a Copy – This is a trick that allows a user to share a Google Doc/Slides Presentation/Sheet and force users who access the shared document to make a copy of the document, rather than accessing the original. To do this you simply need to find the shareable link on your doc, slide or sheet (go to “share” and click “get shareable link” in the top right corner) and change the word on the end of the link from “edit” to “copy”. Once this revised link is shared, users who access the link will then be prompted to make a copy of the file. Once the user clicks “make a copy”, Google Drive will make a copy of the file and add it to the user’s drive. What a convenient way to share documents with your students without fear of changing the original!
Google Drawings and Photos- Unleash the power of Google Drawings and Photos in Learning! Check out this slide presentation with ideas for using Google Drawings and Photos in the classroom.
Password Protected Form- Have you ever wanted to create a form that would be posted publicly, but you only wanted specific people to fill it out? Watch this short video that explains how to create a password protected form.