{"id":5,"date":"2006-10-16T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T18:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-10-16T13:39:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T18:39:01","slug":"google-for-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2006\/10\/16\/google-for-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"Google for Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/website.education.wisc.edu\/gls\/assets\/pics\/google.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/educators\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/educators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has a nice set of tools the most people know about.\u00a0 Now they have put all of them together on one page so that an educator can get to everything with one click.\u00a0 What makes the site different than the normal Google site is the explanation that goes with each service.\u00a0 For instance, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/educators\/p_websearch.html\" target=\"_blank\">Web Search<\/a> link doesn\u2019t take you to a page where you can do a search.\u00a0 Instead, you are taken to a page that explains all the special ways of doing a search.\u00a0 This page shows how to narrow\u00a0a search to specific terms and use all the\u00a0advanced features of the Google search.<\/p>\n<p>The Google search can also do calculations and conversions.\u00a0 How many square inches in a square mile?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;q=1+square+mile+in+square+inches\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;q=1+square+mile+in+square+inches<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is also the language translator too.\u00a0 Here\u2019s my first paragraph\u2026 in German.<\/p>\n<p>Google l\u00e4\u00dft einen netten Satz Werkzeuge die meisten Leute ungef\u00e4hr wissen.\u00a0 Jetzt haben sie alle zusammen sind auf eine Seite gesetzt, damit ein Erzieher an alles mit einem Klicken gelangen kann.\u00a0 Was den Aufstellungsort unterschiedlich als bildet, ist der Normal Google Aufstellungsort das explaination, das zu jedem Service geh\u00f6rt.\u00a0 Zum Beispiel nimmt die Netz-Suchverbindung dich nicht zu einer Seite, in der du eine Suche tun kannst.\u00a0 Stattdessen wirst du zu einer Seite genommen, die alle speziellen Weisen des Tuns einer Suche beschreibt.\u00a0 Diese Seite zeigt, wie man eine Suche zu den spezifischen Bezeichnungen verengt und alle vorger\u00fcckten Funktionen des Google zu benutzen suchen.<\/p>\n<p>That took all of ten seconds to do.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the Google search techniques, there are links to Google Earth, Book Search, Maps, Video, Docs &#038; Spreadsheets (Google\u2019s web-based word processor and spreadsheet programs).\u00a0 You\u2019ll also find Blogger, SketchUp (a program that can be used to add 3D objects to Google Earth), Calendar and Picasa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schools can also setup \u201cgroup\u201d email and calendars.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these services are available to everyone, but Google for Educations puts all the tools together with a nice set of tutorials.\u00a0 Your biggest concern is that all this is blocked by your district\u2019s filter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.google.com\/educators Google has a nice set of tools the most people know about.\u00a0 Now they have put all of them together on one page so that an educator can get to everything with one click.\u00a0 What makes the site different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2006\/10\/16\/google-for-educators\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}