Google EduCast Show #13 – Google Video Lives On!
On this episode of the Google Educast we welcome Google Certified Teachers Chris Atkinson, Fred Delventhal, and our special guest Charlene Chausis. In Headlines we’ll discuss Google’s reversal on the “death sentence” for content on Google Video, take a look at the Summer of Code 2011 student programming initiative, and discuss changes to Google Forms, Google Realtime, and Chrome. This week’s Tool Shoutout is devoted to Google’s new mobile learning tool Breadcrumb. Finally, as always, we’ll share some of our best Tips & Tricks.
Show Notes:
Charlene’s blog
http://educatingeducators.blogspot.com
Charlene’s self-grading quiz information
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AUYL7P6166VEZGZ4aDhmZGdfNTI2ZjVkNXB0Y3o&hl=en
Charlene’s Apple Pages-to-EPUB tutorial
http://tinyurl.com/pages2epub
Google Video shutdown halted for now, Google slinging content over to YouTube itself
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/25/google-video-shutdown-halted-for-now-google-slinging-content-ov/
Students Announced For The Summer of Code
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/04/students-announced-for-2011-google.html
Some small changes have been made to the Menu in Google Spreadsheets including:
- New ‘Data’ option to better reflect the recently added filtering functionality
- The Form menu is now in ‘Tools’
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2011/04/some-small-changes-to-menu-options-in.html
Google Realtime Search Quietly Adds Quora, Buzz, Gowalla — Even Facebook!
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/TkGYSMEMNI0/
Multiple Profile support comes to Canary build of Chrome
http://lifehacker.com/#!5796831/try-out-chromes-multiple-profile-support-in-the-canary-builds
Tool Shoutout
Breadcrumb
http://breadcrumb.googlelabs.com/
QR Code for a sample breadcrumb (scan using a mobile device):
Blogpost About Breadcrumb / Template:
http://mccartermobile.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-breadcrumb-template-for-quizzes.html
Tips and Tricks
Web Fonts Come To Google Sites
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-sites-brings-you-over-100-new.html
Making things hard to read can ‘boost learning’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11573666
Easier upload of Google Docs files
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/simpler-file-upload-in-google-docs.html
Upload images in Google Spreadsheets
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/04/upload-images-in-google-spreadsheets.html
Talking and Translating with Google Chrome
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/04/everybodys-talking-and-translating-with.html
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