Top 12 Google Tips

Adam S. Carter EDU 5611

#12 Google Books

lSearch a book's full text. Read scanned books, get a synopsis, preview books, buy books on Google Play.It’s not just limited to books either- magazines are widely available and just about any other type of publication. Very worthwhile and educational!You can save your favorite books/magazines/articles on the cloud and go back and reread.

nCollaborate on group projects, forget about Microsoft Office!nNo need to worry about upgrading software and paying exorbitant prices!nGoogle Docs allows for a group to have real-time document collaboration and review each other’s work.Google Docs easily replaces Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Powerpoint for most purposes with no hassle and no worrying about saving!

#11 Google Docs

#10 Google Sky

Google Earth’s Sky is an awesome site to use to teach a high school or college astronomy class. Very cool to check out the Earth in relation to other places in our solar system, and learn about other constellations. A very fun and useful tool to explore and discover outer space.

Collect research notes with Google Notebook. Use this simple note-taking tool to collect your research for a paper or project.Create useful notes no matter where you are, or what computer you are using. All information is stored on the cloud and is easily accessible anywhere there is an internet connection.

#9 Google Notebook

•Google tasks is handy to use everyday as a reminder or a personal to do list. It syncs with your smartphone, sends you a reminder in your Gmail in order to better organize and simplify your life without worrying if you forgot something.

#8 Google Tasks

Keep close tabs on your finances with Google Finance. Watch your investments shrink or grow, keep tight control on your money in a portfolio created and saved on the cloud. Ideal for business students so they can keep track of markets, news, portfolios, and more in one place. Great for high school Economics, Business, and Personal Finance students.

#7 Google Finance

Use keyboard shortcuts and combos. Use Google’s handy list of keyboard shortcuts to save lots of time while using Google Docs. Such shortcuts include: Compose, search, undo, select all, mark as read, go to contact, move up/move down a contact.

#6 Google Keyboard Shortcuts

nEver have a major whoops and accidentally close that all important tab and can't seem to retrieve it? Simple! With Google Chrome, to reopen a closed tab, just press Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen it. nViola! The tab is back just like it was before it was closed.

#5 Reopen a closed tab

#4 Google Trimble "Sketch Up"

Google SketchUp. For art students who are aspiring consummate artists who need a tool to help them draw complex three dimensional figures with a host of tools to help do just that. Powerful software for free and just a 36 MB download.

Do a timeline search. Use "view:timeline" followed by whatever you are researching to get a timeline.This would be very ideal to implement in History class to see when people and events took place in relation to other events and see which important figures were contemporaries and who lived centuries apart.I would use this in English to show the time that two poets or authors lived apart and the important things that happened during their lifetimes.

#3 Google Timeline

#2 Google Scholar•Impressive tool that retrieves scholarly articles/journals from reputable sources. Excellent source for find popular papers, theses, and dissertations.•A definite must to introduce to my English classes for their research in order to find more reliable sources.Very handy for students who don't have access to paid online databases.

Awesome tool to create a study group and share ideas through real-time collaboration groups. Groups can be hundreds of miles or continents apart and still remain productive. People can work on the same project simultaneously or work on individual projects and view and collaborate on individual work.

#1 Google Groups