Google - Happiest Place to Work - October 27

According to CareerBliss.com - Google is the top blissfulness place to work!

Today students will explore Google Products.  Students will have two class periods to explore a Google Tool - which they will present to the class on Monday, November 1.  Explore the tool - conduct a Google search to find information about the tool, etc.

Assignment: See Handout for detailed information
Create a blog post:

• describing tool - features
• link to download tool
• pictures
• benefits
• purpose of tool

Presentation
In detail walk classmates through your tool.  Going over in great detail your tool's features and abilities.  What is the purpose of this tool.  How do you use the tool? Do you have to download it?  It it just web based?

Your presentation must be organized!  Must have a plan for going over the tool - outline - which you will turn in.  Demonstrate tool.  Show how to download the tool, etc.

HAVE FUN EXPLORING!!!!

Monday, October 25

 ASSIGNMENT  - DUE TODAY, OCTOBER 25

• Create a blog post from your cell phone.
• Create a blog post from your email account. (we will set this up together)
• Create a post over FireFox Personas - tool evaluation - description
• Create a post over bibme - tool evaluation - description 
• Create a post over BlogThis! - tool evaluation - description

   Today's Topics

• Set up your blog so that you can post from your email account. 
• Googles Wonder Wheel and Timeline
• Symbaloo
• Explore Google Products

Tuesday, October 19

Today we will explore the following tools/websites:

• BibMe Click here to visit BibMe website
• FireFox Personas Click Here to dress up your Firefox Browser
• Blog post from cell phone Click Here for directions
• Google Gadgets for Webpage Click here for directory 

Revisit Google - Tips and Tricks (per Tammy Worcester)

• Google Search Tips
• Calculator - type a calculation (2 + 5 * 2 - 1/2) and press Enter
• Conversion Tool
• Be sure to use the word "in"
• 1 mile in feet
• 1 cup in tablespoons
• 100 dollars in euros
• 180 c in f

• Dictionary
• Define:  folksomanies

• Weather
• Weather in Cancun, MX

Thursday, October 14

Please make sure that your talking is kept LOW.

On Tuesday we explored the following Google Products:

•  Books, Maps, News, Product Search, Web Search Features, and Translate

ASSIGNMENTS - Due today.

Create a blog post about each product that we have explored - you can put them into one blog post - calling it Google Products OR create a separate post for each product.  Make sure you are very detailed and show pictures of each product in action - for example conduct a search using Google Maps - and take a screen shot to use as your visual explaining the product.  Search for a book or magazine - take a screen shot of the book/magazine, etc.  This should take you a while to complete.

iGoogle - make sure you have your iGoogle post complete as well - refer to Tuesday's assignment for more details.

If you finish your assignments - then explore more of Google's products to see what else they offer for FREE!

See you Tuesday - have a nice weekend!

TUESDAY, October 12

Please open your iGoogle page and wait for Mrs. James to explore the following Google products.

Today students will explore the following Google's products:

• Books
• Maps
• News
• Product Search
• Web Search
• Translate

  ASSIGNMENT - DUE THURSDAY, October 14

Create a post about your iGoogle homepage.  Take a screen shot and discuss the different gadgets that were available for you to add, as well as discuss the gadgets that you did add.

FRIDAY, Oct. 8

TOPIC:  GOOGLE

ARE YOU A GOOGLER? 
  
Today you will:

• Change background image on Google Search
• Discuss the ways in which you currently utilize Google
• Search
• Images
• Etc. 
• Identify the tools that Google offers
• Create an iGoogle home page

 
With Google you can - Search, Explore, Communicate, show and share! 

Wednesday, October 6

Topic:  Blogger Gadgets

ASSIGNMENT:  

• Add a new gadget to your student blog.  
• Create a post discussing the gadgets that you explored/added to your blog. - DUE THURSDAY, OCT 7, 2010

Please go to your student blog and wait. 

Other Topics: 

• Post - publishing vs. draft

• Review Labels feature

• Review your histats counter 

Blogger has added two new gadgets:  Popular Posts and Blog Stats.  Today we will add these gadgets to our blogs to see what they are all about.  We will also reexamine the Design of our personal blogs and where we can add gadgets.  We will  revisit the other gadgets and explore the new ones!  Gadgets categories:  Basic, Featured, Most Popular and More Gadgets - add your own!

Monday, October 4

11:00 - 11:15 - Explore Tagxedo

ASSIGNMENT 1 (due Wednesday by 8 a.m.)

• Create a word cloud using Tagxedo - and post it onto your blog.   Try uploading your own picture or use one of the templates that they have.

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Today we will be discussing:

• Labels and
• Blogger Gadgets

• LABELS
• What is a label?
• Explain why someone would add a label to their blog post
• Identify the benefits of adding labels to  your blog posts.
• Demonstrate adding a label to a blog post.
• Create a label gadget

• Labels allow you to organize your blog posts into categories.  Refer to this blog:  Katie's Kreations

Today you will:

• Explore the Histats.com website
• Identify features of Histats.com
• Explain the purpose of adding a counter/stats to your blog 
• Add a visitor counter to your blog

ASSIGNMENT 2 - Stats - Histats.com

• Create an account on Histats.com
• Add a counter to your blog from this website

ASSIGNMENT 3 (DUE FRIDAY)
Create a post about this website - and its usefulness - what does it tell you (also discuss the counter from blogger that you added)