eT@lking: About the google gathering

Tonight there was a great gathering around ‘google’. Following on from the google teacher academy presentation of last week, participants shared favourite, experimental or innovative google apps and applications of google for education. Here is the link to the recording

Thanks to Jess McCulloch, Andrew Williamson, Rowan Peter and Roland Gesthuzien for sharing with us. Here are some of the sites and apps shared tonight.

• Google squared
• Participants used snagit to get a screenshot of profile details
• Google moderator
• Google news timeline
• 70 google forms for the classrom
• Google news archives
• 100+ google tricks for teachers
• Google question a day
• Google products
• The big google search tools collection
• Google sites
• Google apps for education
• Google sites
• Google links and tutorials
• @Trish Used Google earth to show my LOTE kids where I lived in Germany, we toured the town, kids loved it
• Street view story
• Interactive construction
• Where is your hometown
• The song that Rowan referred to
• School yard blitz
• Google search stories
• Google love letter
• Lunchbox project
• woices
• The google sites lunch box project
• Roland Gesthuizen: When you work on sides, just allocate one slide per student. Easier to manage if you scaffold this in advance

Thanks everyone for some great sharing and googling! What can you share about the use of google? See also Rowan Peter’s great post on the gathering.