Category: google
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Google in Education and Chromebooks (Sept 2011)
These are my notes from Tia Lendo’s presentation at the September 27, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Tia’s conference bio is: Tia Lendo is a “Noogler,” having joined Google two months ago. Prior to coming to Google she was a 4th grade teacher and then…
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A Google Geo-Teacher Learning Day Story: In Tweets
Thanks to a suggestion from Brian Wasson, I used Storify this evening to compile a “story” of our shared learning today in Lewiston, Maine, at day 1 of the Google Geo-Teacher Institute. Using our event Twitter hashtag #gti2011, I ordered (more or less) most of the tweets shared by participants throughout the course of the…
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Google Earth and Google Maps GTI Workshop (Sep 2011)
These are my notes from John Bailey‘s workshop on Google Earth and Google Maps at the September 26, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. John wasn’t our only presenter, we also learned with/from others… MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. John Bailey’s Google Earth resources (not all recently updated) – http://snap.uaf.edu/earth/ John Bailey is…
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Google Fusion Tables: Geo-spatially connecting database data
These are my notes from Sean Maday‘s presentation on Google Fusion Tables at the September 26, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Sean Maday is a geospatial engineer at Google. He served as an Air Force intelligence officer from 2005 to 2010, and formerly worked for a research…
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Visualizing Data in Google Earth
These are my notes from Margaret Shaw Chernosky’s presentation, “Visualizing Data in Google Earth” at the September 26, 2011, Google Geo-Teacher Institute in Lewiston, Maine. MotionX-GPS app for iPhone: creates Google Earth KML/KMZ file with your speed/location as you travel Bring live hurricane and tropical storm data into your classroom via KML/KMZ files: www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/ Bring…
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New Video Editing Options with YouTube’s Browser-based Editor and Magisto
Cross-posted to the “Playing with Media” blog. The increasing availability of flash-based video recorders, or camcorders, continues to fuel the explosive growth of online video. “No edit” and “quick edit” videography has many advantages, but editing is still important at times and can be necessary in many cases. Fortunately, available tools continue to grow in…
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Copyright Infringement Claims Lead to Suspension of Legoboy YouTube Channels
My 13 year old son is a HUGE fan of Legos and stopmotion lego animation videos. He has been pretty upset this weekend and today by a string of events which have affected one of his favorite YouTube Lego builders and animators. “LegoBoy” (real name “David”) is a U.S. teenager who has built a following…
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Use a Google Docs Spreadsheet to Send Text Message Alerts to Students
SMS or cell phone text messaging alerts can be extremely handy. Research shows most people read text message alerts almost immediately, and when students have an unlimited text messaging plan no additional costs are incurred by them to receive SMS updates. The last three semesters I’ve used the lowest commercial version of TextMarks to send…
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Ways to Subscribe to a Blog in Google Reader on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch
Mobile learning can be wonderful. Unlike laptop or desktop computers, mobile computing devices are generally more accessible. They can fit in our pocket. They’re almost always available. As I use Twitter during the day (often with the Hootsuite app) I often find blogs I’d like to read later. My favorite thing to do when I…
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Visualizing Tornados in Oklahoma City with Google Earth
This afternoon in Missoula, Montana, I’ve enjoyed taking a Google Earth workshop with Jeff Crews. (This is Jeff’s intro Google Preso for our workshop, I’ll post more notes from his session soon.) Jeff showed us all kinds of layers and KML/KMZ files which can be viewed in Google Earth, including this layer of historical tornado…